On Thursday, June 25, 2020 1:27:06 PM MST Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 8:40 pm, Ian McInerney > <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Are you sure this will work? I just ran a test, and putting a new > > config file inside /usr/lib/environment.d only works for Gnome, and > > doesn't work for Mate, Cinnamon or SSH (tested by opening a terminal > > in the respective session and examining the environment variables). > > From what I gather in [1], systemd is not a standard way of > > interacting with the user's environment variables, and only Gnome has > > decided to use it. So this method of implementing this change seems > > to be making the default editor for Gnome be nano and not changing > > the defaults for anyone else. > > > Erm... well, no. Plan foiled? > > The goal of using /usr/lib/environment.d was to avoid setting more > environment variables in random places in various shell scripts. But if > that only works in GNOME, I guess it's not a great solution after all. Actually, that may be the perfect solution.. This way, it'd be a self contained change to the GNOME spin, and wouldn't affect the rest of Fedora. I'd be +1 on that. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
