From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some environment variables disappeared for getenv
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:53:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyMgVvNiEApMiecy@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmfwhoxp.fsf@free.fr>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:12:02PM +0200, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
> I used to rely on getenv to get the value of $XDG_SESSION_TYPE. I
> noticed that recently:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (getenv "XDG_SESSION_TYPE")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> returns nil, because this variable isn't in process-environment
>
> What is the reason for dropping this particular variable ? How can I get
> the value of this variable from within Emacs ?
The process that starts your Emacs has to pass it on (that's the idea
of environment variables). If things changed, this is where you have
to look.
How is your Emacs started?
Cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-15 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-15 11:12 Some environment variables disappeared for getenv Julien Cubizolles
2022-09-15 12:53 ` tomas [this message]
2022-09-15 13:28 ` Julien Cubizolles
2022-09-15 19:17 ` Iñigo Serna
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