From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Foreign distro Unity desktop broken after guix update
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:59:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211229095934.98ab01fddf4a9c70dc15edbc@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfucqu89.fsf@posteo.net>
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:45:26 +0000
Fredrik Salomonsson <plattfot@posteo.net> wrote:
> > I added
> > ```
> > export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache:/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> > export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib
> > ```
> > to .profile. Now I have all icons back! Guess there’s a better way?
>
> Nice! I'm not sure there's a better way, other than having guix control
> the full GNOME stack (which is probably not feasible or desirable on a
> foreign distro).
I since learned that setting the paths like that makes the Ubuntu-side
work, but guix stuff will fail. Gnucash bails out, Inkscape segfaults
and GIMP runs without toolbox icons. Also, with a bit of thought,
GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE must point to one file; it can’t be a chain of
paths.
Thus at the very least GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE must be one thing for
Ubuntu and another for guix. Short of running all guix-installed stuff
from a terminal after setting the variable there, is there any solution?
I also found out that plain `gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders` resolves to the
guix version. The Ubuntu version resides at
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
My current theory is that this pixbuf-mixup has been going on for
longer, but only a recent guix update made stuff incompatible. In
addition, some caching might complicate matters.
Thank you for your thoughts, Fredrik!
--
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-29 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-27 15:18 Foreign distro Unity desktop broken after guix update Thorsten Wilms
2021-12-27 19:37 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-12-27 21:17 ` Thorsten Wilms
2021-12-28 10:16 ` Thorsten Wilms
2021-12-28 21:45 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-12-29 8:59 ` Thorsten Wilms [this message]
2021-12-30 1:11 ` Fredrik Salomonsson
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