GNOME - startup scripts needed

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hello,

Just read at the gnome website about the cross-desktop MIME-type
system.

"As with GNOME 2.6, you must define the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
variable to the path at which your MIME database is installed, for
instance <prefix>/share."

Now I thought that things like this need to be handled, and probably
the best would be to do such initial settings in the startup scripts
which are starting X / GNOME.

However I'm not an experienced Linux / GNOME user and have no idea
what else needs to be in such a script.  Do I start any of the
daemons, or is it just enough to start the GNOME window manager?

You get the picture, what I'm really looking for is a package with
gnome-start-scripts in the style like the X startup-scripts to enable
the start from the shell (.sh) script and to enable starting from
explorer (.bat) windows shell via double click without ever opening a
Cygwin shell.  "Cygwin? What is this good for? Wanna run GNOME!"


Gerrit
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