When /usr/bin/dunst is run as a normal user without a ~/.config/dunst/ directory, it attempts to find its config file in any of the directories specified in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. (For me, that's "/home/$USER/.config:/etc/xdg".) This leads to dunst looking for its system-wide config file at /etc/xdg/dunst/dunstrc instead of /etc/dunst/dunstrc, the location where the config file is installed by the ebuild. Unsetting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS does not help in this situation as it tries to look at /usr/local/etc/xdg/dunst/dunstrc instead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge =x11-misc/dunst-1.7.3. 2. Make sure you do *not* have a ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc file. 3. Make a change to the configuration file at /etc/dunst/dunstrc. 4. Kill any existing dunst processes running for your user, and run /usr/bin/dunst again. (Preferably in the background with "nohup /usr/bin/dunst &" or similar.) Actual Results: The configuration change made does not take effect, because it is looking for the configuration file in the wrong place. Expected Results: The configuration change should have taken effect. emerge --info: Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.9.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-10.3.0, glibc-2.33-r7, 5.4.143-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.143-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-5820K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-glibc2.33 KiB Mem: 24604520 total, 7913396 free KiB Swap: 8191996 total, 7768316 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:45:01 +0000 sh bash 5.1_p8 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.37_p1 p0) 2.37 ccache version 4.3 [disabled] app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.3::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.1_p8::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.34.0-r6::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18_p13::gentoo, 3.6.15::gentoo, 3.7.12_p1::gentoo, 3.8.12_p1-r1::gentoo, 3.9.9-r1::gentoo dev-lang/rust: 1.58.1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 4.3-r3::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 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Hi! Thank you for the report. I can reproduce your issue here, but I currently don't have a solution. According to upstream, setting SYSCONFDIR should be the solution, but in all my tests, it's getting ignored and according to strace, I still see it's not being used. Let's see, what upstream says. Conrad
The repo's README.md has this paragraph, which suggests that they already know of this issue: > Changing SYSCONFFILE does not affect the search for config files, meaning it > will not take effect if you choose to install dunstrc to a location that cannot > be found by the algorithm outlined in the FILES section of dunst(1). I'm not sure if they consider this a bug or not, but it does at least seem to be acknowledged.
Oh never mind, that's SYSCONFFILE, not SYSCONFDIR, my apologies >_>
The code for this in dunst-1.7.3 appears to be substantially different from the equivalent code in dunst-1.8.0, which makes it surprising that it persists in that version. However, I may have figured it out. Looking at the code for 1.8.0 (which seems to be the same in the current git commit), it looks like the add_paths_from_env() (src/utils.c, lines 450-461) function is bugged; it accepts a "env_name" parameter, but never actually uses this parameter. The routine as a whole seems to be gear towards using XDG_DATA_DIRS.
(In reply to Sophie Hamilton from comment #4) > The code for this in dunst-1.7.3 appears to be substantially different from > the equivalent code in dunst-1.8.0, which makes it surprising that it > persists in that version. However, I may have figured it out. > > Looking at the code for 1.8.0 (which seems to be the same in the current git > commit), it looks like the add_paths_from_env() (src/utils.c, lines 450-461) > function is bugged; it accepts a "env_name" parameter, but never actually > uses this parameter. The routine as a whole seems to be gear towards using > XDG_DATA_DIRS. Yes, it looks like, you are right. There is even a PR: https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/pull/1042. I will push an update to change the default config patch and apply the patch to 1.8.0.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cea6ab5fd34b6303f54a5d64a875c51559fa118a commit cea6ab5fd34b6303f54a5d64a875c51559fa118a Author: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-27 23:56:27 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-28 00:03:01 +0000 x11-misc/dunst: drop 1.7.3, 1.8.0 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834050 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> x11-misc/dunst/dunst-1.7.3.ebuild | 78 --------------------------------------- x11-misc/dunst/dunst-1.8.0.ebuild | 78 --------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 156 deletions(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c02c8cd6770e3cc594e8d63f76d0a6c4c3435f4e commit c02c8cd6770e3cc594e8d63f76d0a6c4c3435f4e Author: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-02-27 23:54:00 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-02-28 00:03:01 +0000 x11-misc/dunst: update config path Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834050 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> x11-misc/dunst/dunst-1.7.3-r1.ebuild | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ x11-misc/dunst/dunst-1.8.0-r1.ebuild | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ x11-misc/dunst/dunst-9999.ebuild | 2 + x11-misc/dunst/files/dunst-1.8.0-xdg.patch | 23 +++++++++ 4 files changed, 185 insertions(+)
