Compiz Manager wrapper script modifies ENV environment variable
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Compiz |
Invalid
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Undecided
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| compiz (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| compiz (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Michael Vogt | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: compiz-core
In compiz-core for Hardy (1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6):
The Compiz Manager wrapper script (installed at /usr/bin/compiz) modifies the ENV environment variable, which interferes with interactive POSIX shells (/bin/sh but not /bin/bash). The variable should be called something else (perhaps 'COMPIZ_ENV'). The purpose served by the ENV variable in the wrapper script is not clear; a quick grep for 'ENV' in the compiz source did not reveal anything useful.
For more details on the standard meaning of the ENV environment variable, see the POSIX specifications at:
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Related branches
| Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote | #1 |
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| Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote | #2 |
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| Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote | #3 |
| Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote | #4 |
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| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote | #5 |
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| status: | Fix Released → Unknown |
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| status: | Unknown → New |
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| assignee: | nobody → Michael Vogt (mvo) |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #6 |
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| Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote | #7 |
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I just noticed that the compiz-manager script does 'export $ENV' and not 'export ENV' (notice the missing dollar sign). Thus, ENV is not actually used by compiz outside of the compiz-manager script. This will be easy to fix -- I'll whip up a patch.