Bug#423658: gnome-screensaver: doesn't honour TMPDIR

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 22:28 +0200, Sven Arvidsson a écrit :
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:10 +0200, Piotr Kaczuba wrote:
> > Gnome-screensaver doesn't honour the TMPDIR environment variable.
> > Instead of using the directory provided by TMPDIR (set by
> > libpam-tmpdir), it creates gconfd-$USER and orbit-$USER directly in
> > /tmp.
> 
> AFAIK, that's gconf and not gnome-screensaver. gconf already uses 
> g_get_tmp_dir so I think it should use TMPDIR if it's available.

If you want gconf to use a sane working directory, you can set the
GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS environment variable. In this case, don't forget to
allow TCP connections for CORBA if you are in a multi-machine multi-user
environment.

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