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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 2021 12:15:14 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, xfce@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFCE upgraded to 4.16
Message-ID:  <53e6db42-3032-45ef-6558-12a3077fb31c@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <27d29afb-7fa1-d1fb-d817-3cb3b296d92f@madpilot.net>
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On 09/01/21 12:14, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 09/01/21 12:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> On 1/8/21 8:42 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>> ANyway, thinking about it, if the chflag errors are just warnings 
>>> like you say above, then setting a custom TMPDIR will not be needed 
>>> even with your setup. So there is no need for a warning anyway.
>>
>> Guido, you are losing sight with the heart of the problem, i.e. 
>> without TMPDIR, xfce4-appearance-settings tries to create a temporary 
>> directory in / (and obviously fails).
>> This has nothing to do with where home is or what filesystem it's using.
> 
> I've proposed a patch upstream to fix this where it should be fixed. 
> Depending on the existence of a variable and not having a sensible 
> default is an upstream bug.
> 
> Ref: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/merge_requests/41

Forgot to mention, I plan to integrate this patch in the ports tree, but 
I need to better test it before doing that.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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