On 1/25/07, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello (sorry for not using trac but actually I can't).
Why is that? Anything I can do to help? > I don't remember if at that time I've specified the exact problem, > anyway with those instrs. when I started xfce session it caused a > mcs-manager segfault reporting literally the XDG* (needed export) - > tried a lot of times with and without the export; I don't remember > because I've upgraded it first to version 4.3 beta and now to version > 4.4, anyway the segfault paragraph reported a phrase like "You need to > export /etc/xdg in your XDG* environment". First, I would suggest compiling libxfce4util with --sysconfdir=/etc. However, if you haven't done that, maybe you can confirm my hunch. Is it true that you always had XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/share? I've looked at the source for libxfce4util in both xfce-4.2 and xfce-4.4 now. I'll try to explain what's happening. libxfce4util is built with a default path equivalent to XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. This is passed to the C preprocessor through a macro called DEFAULT_XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. The default path is $(sysconfdir)/xdg:$(sysconfdir)/xfce4:/etc/xdg. If XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is present in the environment, it takes precedence over the default path. In addition, $(syscondir)/xdg is always appended to the path. So, if $(sysconfdir) != /etc and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS != /etc/xdg, then there is no way any xfce application will know about the configuration in /etc/xdg. At least, that's the way it seems to me. I'd like to know if rebuilding libxfce4util with --sysconfdir=/etc solves the problem. In that case, it seems that you could set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to anything and it would still work. However, there's currently bogus information in the book suggesting that the default setting for XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is /usr/share. It should be /etc/xdg. Please let me know if any of this information solves these issues. I don't have XFCE installed, I'm just reading the source. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
