On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:48:56 +0200, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Please review http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2172 and
> help determine what needs/should be done here. I don't quite understand
> the issue well enough to determine if this is something that needs to
> be addressed or not.
I use Xfce 4.2.3.2, too, but I didn't have to define those environment
variables in order to have Xfce `start normally' (i.e., I cannot
reproduce the problem).
Moreover, the reporter suggests that these environment variables be
defined:
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/share:/etc/xdg
However, the XDG Base Directory Specification[1] says:
If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to
/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used.
[...]
If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to
/etc/xdg should be used.
In other words, defining the above environment variables with those
values appears to be superfluous -- except for /usr/share in
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, but there should be no configuration files in
/usr/share anyway.
IMO, the reporter should provide more details on why Xfce failed to
start on his system and explain why setting those environment variables
made any difference.
Regards,
Tim
[1] <http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html>
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