Bug#526958: XDG_DATA_HOME works

[Neil Williams]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:34:14 +0200
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> > $ printenv | grep XDG
> > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/
> 
> Right, that’s _DIRS, and /usr/share/gnome is not set correctly here.

Do I need to append to _DIRS then instead of setting _HOME ?

> > I'll be putting XDG_DATA_HOME into ~/.bashrc but I've no idea why it
> > wasn't already set by something within epiphany/GNOME.
> 
> It’s only set if you use gnome-session now, to avoid overlapping with
> KDE or Xfce environments. My guess here is that you are not using
> gnome-session.

gnome-session is installed:

ii  gnome-session  2.22.3-3       The GNOME 2 Session Manager


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