On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@kemper.freedesktop.org> wrote: > units/u...@.service.in | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > New commits: > commit e6dca814412f17db05910acedf76d36d3b7f1355 > Author: Evan Callicoat <a...@propter.net> > Date: Mon Sep 23 21:01:04 2013 -0500 > > units: Add SHELL environment variable > > With the advent of systemd --user sessions, it's become very interesting > to spawn X as a user unit, as well as accompanying processes that may have > previously been in a .xinitrc/.xsession, or even just to replace a collection > of XDG/GDM/KDM/etc session files with independent systemd --user units. The > simplest case here would be to login on a tty, with the traditional > /usr/sbin/login "login manager". > > However, systemd --user (spawned by user@.service) is at the top level of > the slice for the user, and does not inherit any environment variables from > the login process. Given the number of common applications which rely on > SHELL being set in the environment, it seems like the cleanest way to provide > this variable is to set it to %s in the user@.service. > > Ideally in the long-term, applications which rely on SHELL being set > should be fixed to just grab it from getpwnam() or similar, but until that > becomes more common, I propose this simple change to make user sessions a > little bit nicer out of the box.
sadly, that's going to take a very long time. so, +1 from me on this change. Thanks, Auke _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
