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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Developer setups for user D-Bus service files?
From:       David Edmundson <david () davidedmundson ! co ! uk>
Date:       2022-01-12 10:49:26
Message-ID: CAGeFrHCbsMUhiQhbq-=Y6kgiDfU9fVonRFhEBMnY+1rvdps2UA () mail ! gmail ! com
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> This triggered yet another idea with me, and I came across
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/environment.d.html
> upon which I tried to add a file
> /home/mydevuser/.config/environment.d/60-test.conf
> with the content
> --- 8< ---
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/mydevuser/my/share::${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/
> usr/share/}
> --- 8< ---
> logged into a new session et voilĂ , the session D-Bus now sees my D-Bus
> service files and starts the services as expected.
>

The equivalent for non-systemd people is to setup `pam_env` with user
env turned on to do the same thing at roughly the same time.
The drawback is you're always affecting that user, it's not on a per
login basis, which works for you, but not everyone.

David
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