[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 11239] New: export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to the current session

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11239

            Bug ID: 11239
           Summary: export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to the current session
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Xfce4-session
           Version: 4.10.1
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: corsac at debian.org
        QA Contact: bjt23 at cornell.edu
                CC: benny at xfce.org, nick at xfce.org

Hi,

a Debian user reported [1] that Qt5 was using the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable
to tune its behavior.

I managed to dig an old thread from freedesktop.org about this [2] with Nick
participation. It seems that the idea was to have the DM export this, but
apparently the discussion ended without a consensus.

LightDM (and GDM, maybe) apparently sets this if it finds the (proprietary)
X-LightDM-DesktopName key in the session .desktop file, so it might be worth
adding it to the xfce4-session .desktop file.

But not all DMs are using this, I guess, so having it set in xfce4-session
xinitrc might be worth too.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765728
[2]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-July/012004.html

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