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Environment variables

What an Aurora session sets, and variables that change Aurora's behavior

Set in every session

Variable	Value in an Aurora session
`XMODIFIERS`	`@im=fcitx GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx`
`AURORA_INPUT_METHOD`	`fcitx`
`XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP`	`Aurora:wlroots`
`XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP`	`aurora`
`XDG_SESSION_TYPE`	`wayland`
`MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND`	`1`
`QT_QPA_PLATFORM`	`wayland;xcb`
`QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME`	`gnome`
`SDL_VIDEODRIVER`	`wayland,x11`
`_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING`	`1`
`GTK_USE_PORTAL`	`1`
`AURORA_COMPOSITOR`	`labwc`
`AURORA_COMPOSITOR`	`labwc`
`AURORA_COMPOSITOR`	`labwc`
`AURORA_COMPOSITOR`	`labwc`

Set by Aurora at runtime

AURORA_COMPOSITOR: wayfire or labwc: the compositor actually running.
WAYFIRE_SOCKET: Wayfire's IPC socket (Aurora session), used by Snap Layouts and Task Manager.
WLR_RENDERER, LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE, WLR_RENDERER_ALLOW_SOFTWARE: Set by aurora-render-env for machines without 3D.

You can set

AURORA_SAFE_GRAPHICS=1: Use the Compatibility session with software drawing (what the safe graphics boot entry does).
AURORA_LIBDIR: Where Aurora's Python code is (default /usr/lib/aurora): run a development checkout with AURORA_LIBDIR=~/src/auroraOS/desktop aurora-files.