Your message dated Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:26:58 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Xsession: please wrap around $STARTUP to allow launching other processes - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #695140, regarding Xsession: please wrap around $STARTUP to allow launching other processes to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: x11-common Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, With its current design, Xsession builds a long $STARTUP command line in the different scripts present in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/, and finally runs it from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99x11-common_start. This is appropriate for agents such as ssh-agent or gpg-agent, that are used in a mode where they act as wrappers around the command they are given as argument, for instance: gpg-agent --daemon dbus-launch --exit-with-session ~/.xsession This design, however, can cause problems with programs that are not designed with such a wrapper mode. For instance, to launch xbindkeys or xmodmap from Xsession, we have to do: xmodmap & xbindkeys & gpg-agent --daemon dbus-launch --exit-with-session ~/.xsession As indicated in bug #659406, this is problematic for xbindkeys, which is meant to launch commands: when launched this way, it does not have the environment variables that would be set by the different agents, and thus the commands it launches inherit from a reduced environment. I think it would be more flexible to 1. modify /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup so that it defines: $STARTUP=/etc/X11/Xsession.start $XSESSION=$USERXSESSION or $ALTUSERXSESSION or … star; 2. to write a wrapper shell script /etc/X11/Xsession.start to launch the eventual additional programs and the final session: #!/bin/sh eval $OTHERPROGRAMS exec $XSESSION 3. let /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99x11-common_start start, not the final session as it currently does, but this wrapper script: exec $STARTUP (yes, nothing to be changed here, only the content of $STARTUP would be different) This way, scripts from packages such as xbindkeys could simply add commands to $OTHERPROGRAMS and expect to be run in the regular session environment. - -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:[email protected]> | `-' Debian Developer <irc://irc.oftc.net/Tanguy> \_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQvhR0AAoJEOryzVHFAGgZZs0QAMaJh3uN6lr77m3OiyUWMnFu HJ0D8em8djIo0MMazLNAJCEBF9hY/tUmvuudvBr82t2WLgZ/f2/MF3zXanSHEAFt a5czbVVwU98XOVtv1ErvCRLx0hdT0aM5fN5s+CukUuffHb1kSEZYpVA9nNMsZtMe yhY4fx4x3n8fyO7f8iDu0M7XVU/zpSkT3x3Sxdfwsg2sVySyzr4UEAcV/QzkvDxK 5MP//6GqUpRrIgIMBauTyZ5Ufs45aisLek29ik0njKxn7yr7VzLykdDpw0mDF2/S fJslucM03X1/TCboXAA6k5iQGxsIFS4Me4I+LznvKzQeK6uypm4AaldQt2uVd9v8 0exs2Vj2UmD5d57eqf+rVrfJW+V7aI7sMH3y4rQoTSCd4DnyoYLe97fAF5R5ITtp mCeEyRnHuM2BdyK+NUKWEFQhgHU0dJ2qr5GTQQqp0L4WK/QCtBgHDRUTprjvnb2x UJQvFr/+Hmz1fnqTX8AVwZbpp/GdPgb4Ow0YbI7LD7xz4Aa+7Gb0CjlrAZSpG0wn +5GTQHBfURsNnAvwTOXvpdWQcX0bqWu2YnXq8I3t8iQBgKEDciYmES6ZAGLLLrCD 7IpHrhTnO7JcipxcrMLJHGRDNH9NAXLVy2x09R9gVMgY185Sijmk9REJCDJ0/Xy0 oIoEUX2U0DDuYM0UphPK =+ft1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this problem, please feel free to re-open it or ask me to do it. Solveig
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