[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 61877] weston-launch clears environment variables

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Mon Jul 15 01:52:40 PDT 2013


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61877

--- Comment #14 from Ander Conselvan de Oliveira <conselvan2 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> @Rob Bradford: Setting these variables in the login shell would not help for
> applications launched directly from weston... At the moment, the only thing
> that can be launched directly from weston is a terminal, but it wouldn't be
> unthinkable to be able to launch other applications from inside weston, in
> which case setting the variables in the login shell wouldn't be particularly
> useful...

After the comment Rob pointed out, weston-launch will run a login shell that
will in turn launch weston. That way any change in the environment made by the
login shell should be inherited by weston and any process it launches.

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