Wayland backend per user for Gnome Shell?

Hello, I've been trying to set environment variable with Wayland backend for Gnome Shell on Wayland but this per user just doesn't work.
I tried to put:
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
export CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
to files like .profile and .bashrc but Gnome Shell doesn't tolerate these two. Without Wayland backend everything just run in XWayland "mode".
Weston tolerate this backends but it is highly "underfetaured" and sometimes it's just crash (some breakpoint trap).
Any response appreciated.

I have had a brief look and I think there may be a way in to add/change things via .desktop files. It looks like whenever gnome loads a .desktop type file it should look in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME home which, by default, would be $HOME/.config first before loading it from one of the standard system directories. The standard session definitions are desktop files (though with a .session extension) so putting a copy on $HOME/.config should enable user specific reconfiguration.

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i already asked in the desktop section how to run the code (python) but i cannot manage to run! So i ask kindly if it is possible to have this 'extension' as a package on aur.
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Last edited by techmagyor (2011-06-01 17:34:51)

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Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mo, 2012-12-03 21:45:51 CET; 40min ago
Main PID: 266 (gdm-binary)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/gdm.service
├─266 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
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Last edited by swordfish (2012-12-08 14:26:00)

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Intro:
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Hello,
Did you ever get to the root cause of this?
I have a similar problem with a custom XML that is reported as "empty or is not a xml file." in the logs.
Wondered if you had found the root cause?
Kind regards,
Sio.

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