Re: [Vala] Fwd: Problem installing vtg under Debian Sid

[Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 10:43 +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Hello,
 <              في ج، 12-08-2011 عند 09:25 +0200 ، كتب Andrea Del Signore:
> Instead of doing this, you could add ~/.local/share to the XDG_DATA_DIRS
> environment variable, by using something like:
>
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~/.local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS

Yes indeed! I always forget about that possibility, thanks for reminding
it to me :)

> I don't know if
> it's possible to tell gdm/gnome-session to set this for us so it works
> without running from a terminal, that's what I'm using.

I don't know if this is valid across all the linux distributions, but at
least on debian [1] I was able to do it.

Just create a .gnomerc file in your home directory with:

if [ -z "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" ]; then
        XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.local/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
else
        XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.local/share/:"$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
fi

then logout and login again.

> HTH,
> Abderrahim

Regards,
Andrea

[1] On debian SID the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable is initialized by this
script: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55gnome-session_gnomerc