On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:16 AM, DJ Lucas <d...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On 09/08/2009 04:45 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: >> Anyway, I did several experiments, and I don't see that the XDG* exports >> in the gdm boot script actually do anything. I also tried putting the >> variables into the various user's .bash_profile's including the gdm user >> to no avail. The only way I could solve my problem (icons and menus not >> displaying correctly was to put in a new script (gnome.sh) under >> profile.d. So that is what I'm proposing to go into the book, the only >> question is what section should it go under. If anyone has any >> objections on this, let me know. >> >> I also have a problem with several but no all icons not being displayed >> on the gdm logon prompt which I have not solved yet. > That is the issue I have.
I don't think that when the greeter is run as the gdm user that any of the profile scripts are sourced (it's not running in a shell). So, I don't think any of the environment variables are getting set. You can look in /proc/$pid_of_greeter/environ to see what's set. Looking at the source, it seems that the gdm script sources /etc/profile, so the environment for gdm-binary running as root has all the normal shell variables. So, when gdm-binary forks the greeter, it should have the same environment. Does the environment for gdm-binary contain the XDG* variables? >> With the shutdown and reboot, that also doesn't work for me, but I >> haven't had a chance to look at this. I've seen this before but cannot >> remember was that cause was (either configuration or a package missing). >> I'll look at this tonight. >> Wayne. >> > That one is going to be fun. All of that functionality was moved to > ConsoleKit IIUC. Yep. ConsoleKit + DBus is basically required for gnome. gdm and gnome-session both use the ConsoleKit dbus methods to shutdown. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
