Bug#339785: gnome-keybinding-properties: environment not set for apps launched through keybindings

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:25:06PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> environment, not the opposite.
> 
> > > And it would be a good idea to also do the former.
> > 
> > The former is a bad workaround for programs that use dbus (and especially dbus
> > activation) in the wrong way.
> 
> How do you think this should be done?
> 
> BTW, it would be nice if you could discuss this with the upstream
> developers, because currently they have no plans on doing otherwise.

Basically the only environment variables you can expect when you've been
started by dbus is DBUS_* and the various early set environment variables
(LANG, PATH, etc).. When you've been started by a session daemon for an X
session, you can expect DISPLAY to be set correctly too..

For everything else you will need some other way to recover them. In seahorse's
case, it should implement some D-Bus api to recover the socket paths that you'd
normally get from the GPG_AGENT_INFO and SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variables.

  Sjoerd
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