Re: GNOME 2.10 module proposal: libnotify and notification-daemon

[Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>]

> >>Currently it seems (could be wrong here) there's no way to have a daemon 
> >>start and install environment variables in the users session. 
> >
> >You can't install environment variables unless you are the parent
> >process.  DBus does this by spawning the xsession with dbus-launch.
> 
> Right, but it would seem this only works for one daemon. The traditional 
> way to start such a daemon is in the users shell rc, something like this:
> 
> eval `daemon-process`
> 
> ... and have the daemon output the environment variable code before it 
> exits. However this isn't compatible across shells. If gnome-session 
> could set these variables it would be easier to install.

This, however, doesn't cater for applications started from the panel,
run application, etc

Cheers,
Trent
Bur.st

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.