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Bug 674900 - add information to the environment of Xsession to assist setting XDG basedirs
add information to the environment of Xsession to assist setting XDG basedirs
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-04-26 19:39 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2018-05-24 10:42 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2012-04-26 19:39:31 UTC 
It might be useful to add some information to the environment of Xsession to assist setting XDG basedirs. Especially where they indicate an API or contract for the user experience.

Perhaps we can use X- keywords in the session desktop file for this.

Maybe:
 * The desktop file id
 * The OS environment id (org.gnome)
 * OS environment version (3.6)

There may be some overlap here with the OnlyShowIn type flags that the session reads.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#onlyshowin-registry
Comment 1 Tim Koopman 2012-11-03 16:26:27 UTC 
Would this solve the problem with session.log always being written to ~/.cache instead of what the user set XDG_CACHE_HOME to? (bug 627939)
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 10:42:50 UTC 
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