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Re: GUI apps not honoring umask

From Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: GUI apps not honoring umask
Date 2013-04-03 21:20 +0000
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On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:22:59 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/04/13 13:49, Bit Twister wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:22:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 03/04/13 12:53, Bit Twister wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That would depend on
>>>> o GUI desktop manager, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Openbox, Enlightenment,
>>>>     Fvwm, Fluxbox, Window Maker, IceWM, Blackbox, Afterstep, ...
>>>
>>> MATE....
>>
>> Well, not everyone knows what the underling desktop manager is. I
>> thought MATE was just a modified Gnome.
>>
>>>> You would think there would be blurb in the desktop user documentation.
>>>> Of course there is the option of looking through the start up scripts.  :)
>>>>
>>> It may come to that..in fact I'll look at that right now.Hmm not much
>>> there..
>>
>> Yep,  /etc/X11/Xsession is pretty efficient. Guessing you missed
>> something like
>>
>> # use run-parts to source every file in the session directory; we source
>> # instead of executing so that the variables and functions defined above
>> # are available to the scripts, and so that they can pass variables to each
>> # other
>> SESSIONFILES=$(run-parts --list $SYSSESSIONDIR)
>> if [ -n "$SESSIONFILES" ]; then
>>    set +e
>>    for SESSIONFILE in $SESSIONFILES; do
>>      . $SESSIONFILE
>>    done
>>    set -e
>> fi
>>
>>
>
> no umask commands in any of those files.

Well, you have missed the point. You can add your own script with
whatever commands you like.

That may be YOUR workaround solution, until your distribution figures
out how they want to solve the bug report.

I know in kde, I can throw a script into $HOME/.kde*/env to set whatever I like.

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GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-02 19:29 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-04-02 15:03 -0400
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-04-02 15:08 -0400
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-02 21:01 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-03 06:27 +0000
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 11:01 +0100
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 06:22 -0500
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 12:46 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 08:13 -0500
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-03 22:13 +0000
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 23:45 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 17:50 -0500
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2013-04-04 17:47 +0000
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 07:27 -0400
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 12:48 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 09:59 -0400
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 15:26 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-03 15:28 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-03 14:46 +0000
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 17:08 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-03 16:59 +0000
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 18:45 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 14:48 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 19:56 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 15:28 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Octothorpe <Octothorpe@invalid.com> - 2013-04-03 18:33 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 23:47 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Octothorpe <Octothorpe@invalid.com> - 2013-04-03 19:30 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-04 09:08 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 18:48 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 11:53 +0000
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 13:22 +0100
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 12:49 +0000
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 15:22 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 21:20 +0000
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 22:32 +0100

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