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#1 2021-12-17 18:23:50
- TheMohawkNinja
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Calling xsecurelock via a bindsym in i3 doesn't apply env variables
Hello,
I have installed xsecurelock via it's GitHub repo and use my ~/.zshrc file to export a couple of environment variables to configure xsecurelock. While the environment variables apply perfectly fine when I just call xsecurelock in a shell, if I instead call it through i3 using
bindsym $mod+l exec xsecurelock, it only uses the default settings.
I tried adding "sudo" before the export lines to see if it was some permissions issue (not that it should be, since I assume i3 should be running under my user and not root), however that didn't work.
Any ideas?
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#2 2021-12-17 21:05:30
- seth
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Re: Calling xsecurelock via a bindsym in i3 doesn't apply env variables
I tried adding "sudo" before the export lines
Remove the idea "doesn't work so I'll try sudo" from your head - it's not a big deal here but will more often than not cause serious problems.
Your zshrc isn't sourced by the i3 session - not by i3 directly, nor (we'll assume) by whatever launches the session (certainly no DM and for startx it depends on how that's invoked)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables - if you can't work it out yourslef, we'll have to know how the session/i3 is started.
Edit: a common way to launch a process w/ custom environment variables is https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/coreutils/env.1.en
Last edited by seth (2021-12-17 21:06:42)
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