environment of activated services

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Matthias Clasen
> <matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some cube discussion made it clear that I am a bit confused here.
> > At least for SESSION_MANAGER, the problem here is that the session bus
> > is not actually running inside the session, so the daemon doesn't have
> > that variable in its environment either. Whats really needed here is
> > some way to selectively pull some parts of the callers environment
> > into the environment of the activated service.
> 
> I think it might be easier to have gnome-session, immediately after
> being launched, inject the crucial environment variables into the
> session bus.  Say org.freedesktop.DBus.SetEnvironment(a{ss})
> 
This is also solved by using a separate service manager to run the D-Bus
services on its behalf.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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