bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging dock

[Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>]

Hi,

From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging 
dock
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 21:18:28 +0200

> I think we should set XCURSOR_PATH via
> ‘session-environment-service-type’ like in the patch I posted.  I 
> find
> it marginally nicer than setting it in /etc/profile because that 
> way it
> remains close to ‘gnome-service-type’; we need to do the same in
> ‘xfce-service-type’ though.  WDYT?

Sure, I agree.  My choice of /etc/profile was not really motivated: I 
just looked for the first place I could set an environment variable, 
and used that, thinking there would be someone to tell me if this was 
a good place to put it, or not.

> Then, eventually, we can add XCURSOR_PATH as a search path 
> definition of
> ‘libxcursor’, but due to bug 20255, it won’t be effective here; so
> that’ll be a mostly cosmetic change.

Adding it as a “cosmetic change” is perhaps useful as a reminder that 
we can improve this in the future.  Also (bug 22138), I believe 
search paths of dependencies are not propagated, so users would also 
have to explicitly install libXcursor itself in a profile to have 
this take effect?  No strong opinion here :)

One less bug for the 0.14 release (come and switch back already, 
Mohammed... :-) )

Thomas