Bug 412468 - /etc/plasma/startup is ignored
Summary: /etc/plasma/startup is ignored
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.16.90
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
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Reported: 2019-09-30 08:43 UTC by Tobias Klaus
Modified: 2019-09-30 21:51 UTC (History)
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Description Tobias Klaus 2019-09-30 08:43:24 UTC 
SUMMARY
Scripts in /etc/plasma/startup/ are not longer executed and thus no Environment variables are exported

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use /etc/plasma/startup/*.sh to export some environment variables
2. upgrade to 1.16.90
3. login

OBSERVED RESULT
None of the variables set in /etc/plasma/startup/*.sh got exported.

EXPECTED RESULT
Variables exported in /etc/plasma/startup/*.sh are exported as in the plasma-versions before.

Operating System: Gentoo 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.12.5
Kernel Version: 5.3.1-gentoo
OS Type: 64-bit


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I use x11-Window system and sddm, so /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 seems to be in charge of initializing the desktop-system.

I mitigated the issue by copying the scripts in question to ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2019-09-30 08:49:16 UTC 
>Scripts in /etc/plasma/startup/

Do you have a link to that being documented?

I don't recall that ever being a thing, it's not in my notes, and I can't find a reference in Plasma 5.16's startkde.
 

/etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env was the previous place where this would be loaded and AFAIK this still works.
Comment 2 Tobias Klaus 2019-09-30 08:57:52 UTC 
Gentoo's package "plasma-workspace" ships scripts that use this feature. That's how it got my attention and thus I just assumed this to be a documented feature. Until filing the bug I even thought it is shipped by plasma-workspace.

If this is undocumented and there is an alternative I will file a bug on gentoo's bugzilla.

However this worked for a really long time (I can't remember when I started using /etc/plasma/startup but I assume it has been while plasma4 still was a thing.)  and might break things for others that used it. Since my gpg-agent still worked with plasma-16.5 I am pretty sure it still worked there...
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2019-09-30 09:42:32 UTC 
Thanks, can you link here to the gentoo tracker when you've done so.

I'll keep an eye on the thread in case we do need to change.
Comment 4 Tobias Klaus 2019-09-30 09:45:30 UTC 
This is the gentoo bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/695892
Comment 5 Tobias Klaus 2019-09-30 12:51:07 UTC 
Obviously this has already been discovered and here is the right gentoo-bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/688366
Comment 6 David Edmundson 2019-09-30 13:50:10 UTC 
Oh! So plasma never sourced that, it was a gentoo patch that did - and we broke that patch working. 

At least that makes sense. Thanks
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2019-09-30 21:51:32 UTC 
Setting status correctly; there is no additional information needed.