Re: terminal servers

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  I would like to add that currently oafd is severely broken with respect to
> component activation.
>  It doesn't export any environment variables of the component activator
> (including LANG, XFT_*, LC_*, GTK_RC_FILES, all GDK_* and GTK_*).
> 
>  See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60701
> 
>  So an instance of the component should exist for each unique set of
> (important?) environment variables of the component's activator, not only for
> each DISPLAY. And it should be the default behaviour - there shouldn't be any
> need to activate component specially in order to be able to run it on
> several different DISPLAYs. All "important" environment variables of the
> activator should be exported to the component.

We've mentioned to Maciej already, we need a way to specify a
'different' value for GTK_MODULES for bonobo components from the one in
the invoking instance.  For our purposes it would probably be OK for
this to be hard-coded on a per-user or per-user/display basis, but we do
need this facility.

-Bill

>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad