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<a name="id2703875"></a>Running GIO applications</h2></div></div></div>
 
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      GIO inspects a few of environment variables in addition to the
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<p><b><code class="envar">XDG_DATA_HOME</code>, <code class="envar">XDG_DATA_DIRS</code>.&#160;</b>
 
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<p><b><code class="envar">XDG_DATA_HOME</code>, <code class="envar">XDG_DATA_DIRS</code>. </b>
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        GIO uses these environment variables to locate MIME information. 
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        For more information, see the <a class="ulink" href="http://freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec" target="_top">Shared MIME-info Database</a>
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<p><b><code class="envar">GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE</code>. </b>
 
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      The following environment variables are only useful for debugging
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