Re: The same environment variables everywhere

From	Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: The same environment variables everywhere
Date	2017-02-27 19:00 +0100
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David Wright [2017-02-27 10:56:55-06] wrote:

>>     systemctl --user import-enviroment
>
> Is that typo actually in the file?

No. I just (mis)typed those "files" here. In practice they contain quite
a lot more than that.

>> ~/.xsession:
>> 
>>     . ~/.profile
>
> My profile has side effects. Calling it from ~/.xsession
> would repeat them, which would be undesirable.

I moved my variable assignments to ~/.environment.sh and source that to
~/.profile and ~/.xsession.

> Have you tried putting an EnvironmentFile= in here (man 5
> systemd.service)? You could source the file from elsewhere if required
> so that you only need one set of definitions.

(EnvironmentFile's primary description is in systemd.exec(5).)

Doesn't work well with services that need X session which sets DISPLAY,
XAUTHORITY, GPG_AGENT_INFO, SSH_AUTH_SOCK and maybe other things. Some
of them have no static values. So, it's simpler to have things like:

~/.xsession:

    . ~/.environment.sh     # Import my variables.

    systemctl --user import-environment
    systemctl --user start [service-that-needs-X-session-environment]
    my-window-manager
    systemctl --user stop [service-that-needs-X-session-environment]

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The same environment variables everywhere Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-26 13:30 +0100
  Re: The same environment variables everywhere Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-02-26 21:00 +0100
    Re: The same environment variables everywhere Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-02-27 06:00 +0100
      Re: The same environment variables everywhere deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 09:10 +0100
        Re: The same environment variables everywhere <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-27 09:20 +0100
          Re: The same environment variables everywhere GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-27 12:40 +0100
            Re: The same environment variables everywhere Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2017-02-27 13:40 +0100
          Re: The same environment variables everywhere Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-27 14:30 +0100
            Re: The same environment variables everywhere David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-27 18:10 +0100
              Re: The same environment variables everywhere Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-27 19:00 +0100
                Re: The same environment variables everywhere Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-02-27 19:20 +0100
                systemd service environment Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-27 19:50 +0100
          Re: The same environment variables everywhere deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 19:30 +0100
  Re: The same environment variables everywhere Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-27 14:20 +0100

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