Bug#423658: gnome-screensaver: doesn't honour TMPDIR

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:27 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> On 2007-05-27 22:28, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > AFAIK, that's gconf and not gnome-screensaver. gconf already uses 
> > g_get_tmp_dir so I think it should use TMPDIR if it's available.
> 
> IMHO, the reason is that TMPDIR is not on the list of allowed env vars 
> in gs-job.c and gs-window-x11.c in gnome-screensaver. After the call to 
> gdk_spawn_on_screen_with_pipes TMPDIR gets lost. I'm not sure if simply 
> adding TMPDIR to the list would result in some security risks, though.

Hi again, 

Did you give Josselins advice a try?

        If you want gconf to use a sane working directory, you can set the
        GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS environment variable. In this case, don't forget to
        allow TCP connections for CORBA if you are in a multi-machine multi-user
        environment.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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