Re: GSettings schemas

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Federico Beffa <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I've found that setting the environment variable GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
>> solves the problem.
>>
>> $ 
>> GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=/gnu/store/5shj344c9vrh4fx93r9lfjjrrr97fmjv-gtk+-3.10.1/share/glib-2.0/schemas
>>  emacs
>>
>> Can the schema location be fixed at configure/compile time?
>
> We could use ‘wrap-program’ to set that variable for Emacs, but we need
> to address that problem more generally.

This 'wrap-program' strategy of setting environment variables before
running a program has problems.  In this case, it means that every
program run within Emacs will inherit that GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR value.

Along the same lines, I've noticed that when running WindowMaker, all of
the programs within my X session include a WindowMaker-specific
directory at the front of PATH.

It would be good to find another solution.

      Mark