Re: Accessing global environment variables in X startup

Hi,

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   I'm working on improving dynamic mouse/touchscreen handling in GPE,
> i.e. letting it automatically use input which is present (and not use
> one which is not). The first and rather obvious thing is touchscreen
> calibration: if there's no TS, it makes no sense to calibrate it,
> especially that xtscal seem to be hardcoded to expect exactly a TS
> device, not arbitrary input device.

thats a good idea, i can imagine that we might face this problem on several
platforms.

>   The fix would be trivial, like:

Fine for me so far...

>  However, I found that $TSLIB_TSDEVICE is not set there, and
> generally, env is empty in Xinit. I traced this too clearenv()
> call in gpe-dm.c,a nd it's present since rev 1.1 in CVS.
> 
>  Is there reason why it gpe-dm clears environment, which outweights
> flexibility of parameter passing via it? If not, I'd like to propose
> following patch:

We should try to find out why this is done first. I can imagine that you need a
clean environment when you switch to a new user or some security constraints.
Maybe Phil has an idea about this.

Greetings

Florian

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