[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 4369] XFCE, flash filesystems, and read only mounts

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4369





--- Comment #2 from Kevin Day <thekevinday at gmail.com>  2008-09-09 21:24:36 UTC ---
As far as I can tell, here are the directories created in the home directory:
~/.local/
~/.config/
~/.cache/
~/.thumbnails/

Thunar's ~/.thumbnails/ and ~/.cache/ sound like they will have a considerable
number of writes.


Thanks for the env variables, I was not aware of their existence.
Neither are currently defined on my system (should they be?), the only xfce'ish
env variable I see defined is $XDG_DATA_DIRS.

I will play with the environmental variables to see what kind of solution I can
come up with.


This, however, does not solve the session issue, which causes the read-only
initialization bug.

from the xfce4-session's main.c, line 96:
/* check access to $HOME/.ICEauthority */
  authfile = xfce_get_homefile (".ICEauthority", NULL);
  fd = open (authfile, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0600);

That will attempt a write (or create) and fail on a read-only filesystem.

Is there a way to specify an alternate .ICEauthority location?
That is, without compiling the non-standard path in?

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