From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 18698@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18698: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X session
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:22:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9upm5ih.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4o2q439.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>>> The fix may have resulted in unintended side-effects. On a fresh
>>> installation of the System Distribution v0.8.1 WindowMaker is installed
>>> by default, but it is not completely functional.
>>>
>>> For example, the attempt to change the style via the menu results in
>>> this error to be displayed:
>>>
>>> Could not execute command:
>>> setstyle /gnu/store/...windowmaker.../share/WindowMaker/Styles/Black.style
>>>
>>> Likewise, selecting "Configure Window Maker" from the right-click menu
>>> results in this error:
>>>
>>> Could not execute command: exec WPrefs
>>>
>>> The "setstyle" executable is located in
>>> /gnu/store/...windowmaker.../bin/, but is not in the PATH.
>> Yes, the $out/bin of windowmaker is not in $PATH, and same for sawfish.
>>
>> Instead of wrapping every executable of session-type, we can:
>>
>> #1: Add the package to system profile ('packages').
>> It's not clear to me how to do it now, until we have something
>> like the NixOS's module system.
>
> What I have in mind is to add a ‘packages’ field in ‘service’. That
> would allow service implementations to contribute packages to the global
> profile. Thoughts?
It's fine, but we may also need a 'dbus-service' field (for wicd).
>
>> #2: Make SLiM use '/run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions' as
>> session_dir.
>> So simply add a package providing xsession file to 'packages' should
>> make it available to SLiM. And all DE and many window-managers provide
>> xsession files already (eg: openbox, sawfish, xfce), we can patch
>> the rest (eg: WindowMaker) to install one.
>
> IIUC the bug initially reported here would remain: the user’s $PATH
> would be polluted with the window manager’s stuff, no?
I think the 'polluted' means we have a $PATH contains:
/gnu/store/xxx-windowmaker/bin
install it to profile doesn't have this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-14 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-13 0:48 bug#18698: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X session Mark H Weaver
2014-11-13 7:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-10 11:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-02-11 12:32 ` 宋文武
2015-02-12 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-14 5:22 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2015-03-01 14:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 14:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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