On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 06:56:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > It does not 'appear' to be volatile, it *is* volatile. > > $ grep run /etc/fstab > tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > See LFS Section 8.2. > Well yes, but the last time I looked on a desktop there seemed to be some other directories in /run which did get created. At the moment I'm on my netbook with an old system, but I see directories in /run for ConsoleKit, cups, dbus, laptop-mode-tools, lock, mount, pm-utils, udev, wpa_supplicant so a lot of things manage to write there.
> I have in my ~/.bash_profile > > export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/plasma-runtime-bdubbs > > I suppose a generic value would be > > export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/plasma-runtime-$USER > > That type of thing is not mentioned in the book. Where do you think it > should be? Possibly configuration for xdg-utils, but plasma may be > appropriate. > It was in the context of "there was a message from plasma in the logs when I tried to work out why kde did not work for me" and "messages when looking at that gstreamer package which broke parole on AMD for me" (vaapi, I think). I put that into .xinitrc on the machine where I was doing that, but of course export does not run mkdir, > Actually I do not think that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is strictly needed. It just > prints a warning and creates the file in /tmp. > > -- Bruce > If it is needed (for the moment, I'm clutching at straws trying to find out why plasma is broken for me), ~/.bash_profile seems unlikely - will it get read, and early enough, when using sddm ? If it is only a warning, it doesn't really matter. I know plasma is slow and bloated, but when it has worked for me it was an interesting alternative approach. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
