[X2Go-Dev] /etc/x2go/Xsession, dbus-daemon, and problems with XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[Hans Ecke]

Hi All-

I'm trying to separate my persistent x2go session from other local
sessions, so in the startup command (Session type = Custom desktop) I
first do things like

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config.x2go"

But I notice that *before* this startup command is called, dbus-daemon
is already running inside the x2go session. This dbus daemon instance
does not know about my modified XDG_CONFIG_HOME and it does not pass
it to any other services it spawns. As a result, those parts of my
desktop environment which are started by dbus will keep their settings
in $HOME/.config, while others will properly use $HOME/.config.x2go.

I have been able to hack around that by modifying /etc/x2go/Xsession
so it does not call /etc/x2go/xinitrc.d/00-start-message-bus.sh. But
that is certainly not clean. Do you think there is something we could
do in the core (nxagent?) to solve this cleanly?

Thank you

Hans