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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
Cc: 18698@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18698: Our WindowMaker wrapper pollutes PATH in the entire X	session
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:15:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4o2q439.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egpwd3wt.fsf@gmail.com> ("宋文武"'s message of "Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:32:50 +0800")

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?

> #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?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 20:16 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 [this message]
2015-02-14  5:22       ` 宋文武
2015-03-01 14:39         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 14:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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