/etc/environment.d does not take effect on Archlinux

Question

I believe systemd-environment-d-generator parses conf files under /etc/environment.d/.

cat /etc/environment.d/60-foo.conf FOO=xxx 

But even after reboot, the environment variable 'FOO' does not appear in user processes.

How to let my systemd take cake of /etc/environment.d/* files?

• Distribution

  Archlinux x86_64

• systemd version

  systemd 251 (251.4-1-arch)

Answer 1

From my understanding of this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12938

/etc/environment.d/ only affects services, not user sessions.

For my purposes (adding a directory to $XDG_DATA_DIRS), adding the following to /etc/profile.d/something.sh works fine:

[testuser@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/profile.d/portmaster.sh XDG_DATA_DIRS="/var/lib/portmaster/exports/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}"