From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: adawaita theme in Gnome
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:14:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuivx1kh.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDzm-oNL=A+b_imNBm4-RdVrSSYh4dbgS2HoJO1zAQ=wKw@mail.gmail.com>
Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
> So, our skillful thomasd solved an issue I had raised.
>
> In the Gnome desktop, when dragging an application toward the folating bar
> on the left, the whole desktop environment crashes, it restarts and you
> have to log on again.
>
> The problem is a missing mouse cursor, as stated here
> https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-02-23#T1301986
>
> And the proposed workaround works like a charm.
>
> For reference, it is
> 1) "mkdir -p ~/.icons/default"
> 2) "ln -s /run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/
> ~/.icons/default/cursors"
>
> What could be a definitive solution to patch the Gnome package with ?
We cannot (and don’t want to) let Guix packages modify the user’s home
directory. On my system XDG_DATA_DIRS contains
“/run/current-system/profile/share”. Is this not enough to let Gnome
find the cursors?
(The “adwaita-icon-theme” package is installed in my system profile.)
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-02 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-24 9:25 adawaita theme in Gnome Catonano
2017-03-02 13:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-03-02 14:19 ` Catonano
2017-03-06 0:47 ` Chris Marusich
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