Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I'm using XFCE with the parole media player and noticed that media keys were exceptionally slow, taking more than 15 seconds to change music tracks, for example [on a 6 core 3.4Ghz system]. Volume change was instantaneous. This was traced to the use of xdg-screensaver by parole: my PATH selects my rm script over /bin/rm and xdg-screensaver was using it every 50 seconds. Once I ran parole from an environment where /bin:/usr/bin were the first 2 components in PATH, the problem went away and it works fine now. I recommend that xdg-screensaver set PATH to a default sane option to avoid being inadvertently overriden by settings in the user environment. Many scripts in /etc/init.d do this (admittedly not normally running from a user environment). This could easily be done by sourcing a /etc/default/xdg-utils file that would prepend a default XDG_PRE_PATH=/bin:/usr/bin to the PATH (if XDG_PRE_PATH is not set). This would make the default behavior of xdg-utils work well by default, regardless of the user environment, while allowing knowleadgeable users to override that behavior. xdg-utils should not depend that users only use alias to override the behavior of rm in order to perform well. thanks! PS: [ii parole 0.5.4-1] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash xdg-utils depends on no packages. Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends: ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.21-1 ii libnet-dbus-perl 1.0.0-2+b1 ii libx11-protocol-perl 0.56-4 ii x11-utils 7.7+1 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3 Versions of packages xdg-utils suggests: ii gvfs-bin 1.16.3-1+b2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
