Thank you for your bug. The behaviour is the same when starting wmaker with startx from a VT, that is not due to GNOME, reassigning to xorg
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gnome-session => xorg ** Summary changed: - gnome-session ignores TMPDIR + TMPDIR set not respected when login to a graphical environment -- TMPDIR set not respected when login to a graphical environment https://launchpad.net/bugs/59177 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs