On Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:27:06 PM MST Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 8:40 pm, Ian McInerney 
> <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure this will work? I just ran a test, and putting a new 
> > config file inside /usr/lib/environment.d only works for Gnome, and 
> > doesn't work for Mate, Cinnamon or SSH (tested by opening a terminal 
> > in the respective session and examining the environment variables). 
> > From what I gather in [1], systemd is not a standard way of 
> > interacting with the user's environment variables, and only Gnome has 
> > decided to use it. So this method of implementing this change seems 
> > to be making the default editor for Gnome be nano and not changing 
> > the defaults for anyone else.
> 
> 
> Erm... well, no. Plan foiled?
> 
> The goal of using /usr/lib/environment.d was to avoid setting more 
> environment variables in random places in various shell scripts. But if 
> that only works in GNOME, I guess it's not a great solution after all.

Actually, that may be the perfect solution.. This way, it'd be a self 
contained change to the GNOME spin, and wouldn't affect the rest of Fedora. 
I'd be +1 on that.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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