[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000146]: $HOME not honored when saving/loading config

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=146
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Reporter:                   gps
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000146
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-03-18 19:17 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-03-19 09:50 GMT
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Summary:                    $HOME not honored when saving/loading config
Description: 
A friend of mine was trying out xfce and noticed that it doesn't use $HOME
when locating the home directory to look for and write its .xfce4/ config
files in.  He sets his $HOME before running many apps so that config is
stored on a local disk rather than in the NFS mounted home directories in
our environment.
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 olivier - 2004-03-18 19:58 GMT 
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IIRC, it's on purpose. There is another env var to achieve what you want.

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 gps - 2004-03-18 20:57 GMT 
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Whats the purpose?

it appears that xfce doesn't even make the choice itself.  it calls glib's
g_get_home_dir() function and joins that with .xfce4 
(libxfce4util/util.c).  I suppose this could be considered a glib issue
(glib 2.3.1 here with xfce 4.3.0.1) but it seems to me that
g_get_home_dir() should return the value of $HOME rather than whatever its
doing (returning the value from getpwent?  returning ~$LOGNAME or
~$USER?).

xfce could work around it.  its not a big deal to me but i thought i'd
point it out.

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 bmeurer - 2004-03-19 09:50 GMT 
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Theres an environment variable $XFCE4HOME which is used by Xfce
applications to determine the path to the users ~/.xfce4/ directory. This
defaults to $HOME/.xfce4/ and starting with CVS as of two-three days ago,
the startup script sets this environment variable to $HOME/.xfce4/. What
version do you use?