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spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.41 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=yahoo.com header.s=s2048 header.b=JHoa4xM7; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 69AEC3253A X-Spam-Score: -3.41 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: jH6kkX5+u/OX ------=_Part_6013515_948628594.1638103922081 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_6013514_1515197702.1638103921985" ------=_Part_6013514_1515197702.1638103921985 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks so much, Liliana, for the response; this really helpful and enlight= ening in terms of understanding Guix better (I think I tend to learn more i= ntuitively from examples than anything). > On Friday, November 26, 2021, 04:45:19 PM UTC, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > > > Hi Jaft, > > > I'm not sure if it's stemming from a bug or I've just missed a package > > or service I should've included but I find there're several programs I > > have installed which aren't saving their settings. > > Catfish and thunar are two easy examples while gnome-calendar, arandr, > > and viewnior do save their preferences, when modified, just fine. In a > > sort of weird middle-ground, lxappearance will save, say, an icon > > change (I can check .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and see that the icons > > have been updated) but, upon opening it, again, I find that it says the > > previous icon set is what's been chosen (this doesn't affect the > > settings.ini file, though; I would need to actually reselect the old > > icon set and hit Apply for that to get updated, once more). > Many GNOME-adjacent/GTK-based applications use GSettings to store their > configuration and are backed by a dconf store.=C2=A0 You can use dconf-ed= itor > to inspect/change their values manually. > Communication between your application and the dconf store is provided > by the dconf-service, which itself uses DBus.=C2=A0 My guess is that eith= er > dbus is not started at all or the dconf-service is not running. That makes sense; I definitely did not have anything dconf-related running.= In case anyone else does stumble upon this E-mail thread and is curious, y= ou can also circumvent running dconf (that was never a goal, for me; I just= stumbled upon it) with xfconf; running my original setup with that install= ed actually caused settings to be saved perfectly. > > In a sort of similar vein, icons can't seem to be recognized for > > particular programs; thunar and gnome-screenshot are easy examples and > > I've attached an image indicating what I mean. Catfish is fine but I > > think it's falling back to the HighContrast iconset (interestingly, the > > only iconset that seems to work when I set it in lxappearance). rofi, > > even, isn't able to provide any application icons when using drun mode. > > lxappearance and nitrogren are two I've noticed using the icons I set > > (Papirus-Light, mostly). > Most GTK-based applications again use the GTK icon theme set by your > window manager (usually) using GSettings/dconf.=C2=A0 Most applications a= lso > typically fall back to hicolor-icon-theme, but that appears to be > lacking from your system definition.=C2=A0 Note that it's *not* included = in > gnome-themes-standard. This is where I'm still running into issues; I don't know if xfconf has any= effect here (I haven't tested how things go without it installed) but I tr= ied the Gnome setup that you demonstrated and, likewise, I was able to upda= te and change (via gnome-tweaks) the icons. Out of curiosity, I tried XFCE = as well (just the full setup) by adding to my services: (service xfce-deskt= op-service-type (xfce-desktop-configuration (xfce xfce))). I also installed the hicolor and Adwaita icons as I read that Thunar (or ma= ybe GTK app.s in general?) don't work at all if those aren't present (and, = with mere light observance, that does seem to be true); logging into the XF= CE desktop, it didn't seem like icons were working as the folders were all = clearly Adwaita but, at some point, I realized that some of the icons were = changing (namely, the files): it just wasn't changing all of them. I took a look at my original setup, as well, and found the same result. I'v= e attached some pictures of icon selection from within the XFCE desktop and= it shows that the folders for a whole host of themes keep trying to use th= e Adwaita folders; not all of them but most. (If I understood correctly,) you were saying that a similar setup to the Gn= ome example you gave could work with XFCE but running the full, plain XFCE = (assuming I did that right) still resulted in this weird thing with the ico= ns so I'm assuming there's something larger here, going on? It definitely w= orks right, on Gnome, and I'm able to see all icons of the picked icon them= e get loaded correctly but it seems, to me, that's not the case with XFCE. Tangential but, bug-wise, unrelated: I mentioned rofi not showing applicati= on icons. Looking at the errors it produces, when run, I'm getting stuff li= ke: (process:30101): Helpers.IconFetcher-WARNING **: 06:23:32.467: Failed to lo= ad image: Couldn=E2=80=99t recognize the image file format for file =E2=80= =9C/run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x96/apps/org.xfc= e.catfish.svg=E2=80=9D I tried searching for if anyone had run into a similar problem and found gd= k-pixbuf2 2.32.1-1 with librsvg 2.40.10-1: "Couldn't recognize the image fi= le format for file" error for SVG files =C2=B7 Issue #818 =C2=B7 msys2/MING= W-packages and [BUG] SVG rendering failed on rofi version 1.6.1 =C2=B7 Disc= ussion #1235 =C2=B7 davatorium/rofi but the first didn't seem particularly = related (beyond referencing the library, I think, rofi uses and, even then,= Guix is on a later version, by now) and, in the second link, someone refer= s to Guix to reference how things should be setup so that didn't really bri= ng much enlightenment, either. I tried running rofi with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=3DHelpers.IconFetcher, to get de= bugging messages and got: Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: ani Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: bmp Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: gif Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: icns Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: ico Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: cur Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpeg Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpe Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpg Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: png Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: pnm Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: pbm Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: pgm Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: ppm Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: qtif Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: qif Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tga Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: targa Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tiff Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tif Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: xbm Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: xpm (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.268: Query: preferences= -desktop-theme(80) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.269: starting up icon f= etching thread. (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.270: Query: org.xfce.ca= tfish(80) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.270: starting up icon f= etching thread. (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: Query: icecat(80) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: starting up icon f= etching thread. (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: Query: (80) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: Query: org.xfce.po= wermanager(80) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: Query: chromium(80= ) (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: starting up icon f= etching thread. (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: found icon prefere= nces-desktop-theme(80x80): /run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-= Light/96x96/apps/preferences-desktop-theme.svg (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-WARNING **: 06:38:06.272: Failed to loa= d image: Couldn=E2=80=99t recognize the image file format for file =E2=80= =9C/run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x96/apps/prefere= nces-desktop-theme.svg=E2=80=9D (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: starting up icon f= etching thread. (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.275: found icon org.xfc= e.catfish(80x80): /run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x= 96/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg SVGs don't seem to be loaded as an extension, though librsvg is a dependenc= y of rofi (I assume it's related to SVG handling for when rofi is running). |=20 |=20 |=20 | | | | | |=20 | |=20 [BUG] SVG rendering failed on rofi version 1.6.1 =C2=B7 Discussion #1235 = =C2=B7 da... SVG rendering failed on rofi version 1.6.1. Fallback the version to 1.5.4 a= nd rendering works normally. Version ... | | | |=20 |=20 |=20 | | | | | |=20 | |=20 gdk-pixbuf2 2.32.1-1 with librsvg 2.40.10-1: "Couldn't recognize the im... When MyPaint tries to load an icon for its initial runtime test, I get: ERR= OR: gui.application: Missing icon 'my... | | | > > You appear to be using quite anemic versions of the GNOME/XFCE desktop > environments overall.=C2=A0 While yes, it is a bug that those application= s > typically fail to deliver icons outside of their respective > environments, it is a fact we have to deal with.=C2=A0 An alternative > "solution" to this problem would require us to propagate stuff like > hicolor-icon-theme from each and every one of them, resulting in > conflicts if you want to bump just a single package. > > I tested around a little and with the following I can at least see > the icons of nautilus and gnome-settings-daemon, even when using > e.g. ratpoison as my window manager > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (define anemic-gnome > =C2=A0 (package > =C2=A0 (inherit gnome) > =C2=A0 (propagated-inputs > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 `(;; GNOME-Core-Shell > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("adwaita-icon-theme" ,adwaita-icon-theme) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-keyring" ,gnome-keyring) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-session" ,gnome-session) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-control-center" ,gnome-control-center) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-settings-daemon" ,gnome-settings-daemon) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-system-monitor" ,gnome-system-monitor) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-shell" ,gnome-shell) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gvfs" ,gvfs) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("mutter" ,mutter) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-calculator" ,gnome-calculator) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-font-viewer" ,gnome-font-viewer) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-screenshot" ,gnome-screenshot) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-terminal" ,gnome-terminal) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("nautilus" ,nautilus) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ;; Others > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("hicolor-icon-theme" ,hicolor-icon-theme) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("font-abattis-cantarell" ,font-abattis-cantarell) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("gnome-themes-standard" ,gnome-themes-standard))))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > using the following values of services while either leaving packages > as %base-packages or simply consing some other window manager to it. > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (services > =C2=A0 (cons* > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (service gnome-desktop-service-type > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (gnome-desktop-configuration (g= nome anemic-gnome))) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (service slim-service-type > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (slim-configuration (display ":= 0") (vt "vt7") > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (xorg-configuration > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (xorg-configuration > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (keyboard-layout keyboard-lay= out)))))> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (modify-services %desktop-services > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (de= lete gdm-service-type))))> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > The same can surely be done for xfce-desktop-service as well.=C2=A0 You a= re > free to cut even more inputs, but be warned that at some point > gnome-desktop-service starts raising errors when you try to build your > system.=C2=A0 It shouldn't do that when merely missing icons, though. > > Cheers =20 ------=_Part_6013514_1515197702.1638103921985 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks so much, Liliana, for= the response; this really helpful and enlightening in terms of understandi= ng Guix better (I think I tend to learn more intuitively from examples than= anything).

> On Friday, November 26, 2021,= 04:45:19 PM UTC, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> w= rote: =20
>
>
> Hi Jaft,
><= br clear=3D"none">> > I'm not sure if it's stemming from a bug or I'v= e just missed a package
> > or service I should've = included but I find there're several programs I
> >= have installed which aren't saving their settings.
> = > Catfish and thunar are two easy examples while gnome-calendar, arandr,=
> > and viewnior do save their preferences, when m= odified, just fine. In a
> > sort of weird middle-g= round, lxappearance will save, say, an icon
> > cha= nge (I can check .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and see that the icons
> > have been updated) but, upon opening it, again, I fin= d that it says the
> > previous icon set is what's = been chosen (this doesn't affect the
> > settings.i= ni file, though; I would need to actually reselect the old
> > icon set and hit Apply for that to get updated, once more).
> Many GNOME-adjacent/GTK-based applications use GSetting= s to store their
> configuration and are backed by a d= conf store.  You can use dconf-editor
> to inspec= t/change their values manually.
> Communication betwee= n your application and the dconf store is provided
> b= y the dconf-service, which itself uses DBus.  My guess is that either<= br clear=3D"none">> dbus is not started at all or the dconf-service is n= ot running.

That makes sense; I definitely did not have anything dconf<= /font>-related running. In case anyone else does stumble upon this E-mail t= hread and is curious, you can also circumvent running dconf (tha= t was never a goal, for me; I just stumbled upon it) with xfconf= ; running my original setup with that installed actually caused settings to= be saved perfectly.

> > In a sort of similar= vein, icons can't seem to be recognized for
> > pa= rticular programs; thunar and gnome-screenshot are easy examples and
> > I've attached an image indicating what I mean. Catfis= h is fine but I
> > think it's falling back to the = HighContrast iconset (interestingly, the
> > only i= conset that seems to work when I set it in lxappearance). rofi,
> > even, isn't able to provide any application icons when usi= ng drun mode.
> > lxappearance and nitrogren are tw= o I've noticed using the icons I set
> > (Papirus-L= ight, mostly).
> Most GTK-based applications again use= the GTK icon theme set by your
> window manager (usua= lly) using GSettings/dconf.  Most applications also
= > typically fall back to hicolor-icon-theme, but that appears to be
> lacking from your system definition.  Note that it'= s *not* included in
> gnome-themes-standard.

This is where I'm st= ill running into issues; I don't know if xfconf has any effect h= ere (I haven't tested how things go without it installed) but I tried the G= nome setup that you demonstrated and, likewise, I was able to update and ch= ange (via gnome-tweaks) the icons. Out of curiosity, I tried XFC= E as well (just the full setup) by adding to my services: (service xfce= -desktop-service-type (xfce-desktop-configuration (xfce xfce))).
=

I also installed the hicolor and Adwaita icons as I read= that Thunar (or maybe GTK app.s in general?) don't work at all if those ar= en't present (and, with mere light observance, that does seem to be true); = logging into the XFCE desktop, it didn't seem like icons were working as th= e folders were all clearly Adwaita but, at some point, I realized that some= of the icons were changing (namely, the files): it just wasn't changing al= l of them.

I took a look at my original setup, as wel= l, and found the same result. I've attached some pictures of icon selection= from within the XFCE desktop and it shows that the folders for a whole hos= t of themes keep trying to use the Adwaita folders; not all of them but mos= t.

(If I understood correctly,) you were saying that a si= milar setup to the Gnome example you gave could work with XFCE but running = the full, plain XFCE (assuming I did that right) still resulted in this wei= rd thing with the icons so I'm assuming there's something larger here, goin= g on? It definitely works right, on Gnome, and I'm able to see all icons of= the picked icon theme get loaded correctly but it seems, to me, that's not= the case with XFCE.



Tangentia= l but, bug-wise, unrelated: I mentioned rofi not showing applica= tion icons. Looking at the errors it produces, when run, I'm getting stuff = like:

(process:30101): Helpers.IconFetcher-WARNING **= : 06:23:32.467: Failed to load image: Couldn=E2=80=99t recognize the image = file format for file =E2=80=9C/run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papir= us-Light/96x96/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg=E2=80=9D

I tried searching for if anyone had run into a similar problem and fou= nd gdk-pixbuf2 2.3= 2.1-1 with librsvg 2.40.10-1: "Couldn't recognize the image file format fo= r file" error for SVG files =C2=B7 Issue #818 =C2=B7 msys2/MINGW-packages and [BUG] SVG= rendering failed on rofi version 1.6.1 =C2=B7 Discussion #1235 =C2=B7 dava= torium/rofi but the first didn't seem particularly related (beyond refe= rencing the library, I think, rofi uses and, even then, Guix is = on a later version, by now) and, in the second link, someone refers to Guix= to reference how things should be setup so that didn't really bring much e= nlightenment, either.

I tried running rofi wit= h G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=3DHelpers.IconFetcher, to get debugging messa= ges and got:

Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: = Add image extension: ani
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add ima= ge extension: bmp
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image exte= nsion: gif
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: = icns
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: icoHelpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: cur
Helper= s.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpeg
Helpers.Icon= Fetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpe
Helpers.IconFetcher= -INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: jpg
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: = 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: png
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:0= 6.245: Add image extension: pnm
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: = Add image extension: pbm
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add ima= ge extension: pgm
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image exte= nsion: ppm
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: = qtif
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: qifHelpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tga
Helper= s.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: targa
Helpers.Ico= nFetcher-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tiff
Helpers.IconFetch= er-INFO: 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: tif
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO= : 06:38:06.245: Add image extension: xbm
Helpers.IconFetcher-INFO: 06:38= :06.245: Add image extension: xpm
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DE= BUG: 06:38:06.268: Query: preferences-desktop-theme(80)
(process:7244): = Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.269: starting up icon fetching thread.<= br>(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.270: Query: org.xfce= .catfish(80)
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.270: st= arting up icon fetching thread.
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBU= G: 06:38:06.271: Query: icecat(80)
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-D= EBUG: 06:38:06.271: starting up icon fetching thread.
(process:7244): He= lpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: Query: (80)
(process:7244): Helpe= rs.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.271: Query: org.xfce.powermanager(80)
(pr= ocess:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: Query: chromium(80)(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.272: starting up icon= fetching thread.
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.27= 2: found icon preferences-desktop-theme(80x80): /run/current-system/profile= /share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x96/apps/preferences-desktop-theme.svg

= (process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-WARNING **: 06:38:06.272: Failed to loa= d image: Couldn=E2=80=99t recognize the image file format for file =E2=80= =9C/run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x96/apps/prefere= nces-desktop-theme.svg=E2=80=9D
(process:7244): Helpers.IconFetcher-DEBU= G: 06:38:06.272: starting up icon fetching thread.
(process:7244): Helpe= rs.IconFetcher-DEBUG: 06:38:06.275: found icon org.xfce.catfish(80x80): /ru= n/current-system/profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light/96x96/apps/org.xfce.catf= ish.svg

SVGs don't seem to be loaded as an ext= ension, though librsvg is a dependency of rofi (I ass= ume it's related to SVG handling for when rofi is running).
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