On 09/11/2009 01:30 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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? > Correct as advertised above... gdm has a full environment gdm-binary has a full environment gdm-simple-slave has a full environment gdm-simple-greeter has a very minimal environment gdm-session-worker has a full environment
Unfortunately, I do not have a full understanding of how GDM works, nor do I usually use it. Only doing it now to assist with what little I can. Why would the cancel button have a displayable icon, but not the logo and login button? The fact that the cancel button icon shows up would seem to eliminate the need for XDG* in the greeter's environment. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
