2017-03-02 14:14 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

>
> 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”.


On my system too. 2 times. Like this

...
/run/current-system/profile/share:
/home/my-user/.guix-profile/share:
/run/current-system/profile/share

these are the last 3 values


> Is this not enough to let Gnome
> find the cursors?
>

It's not. I just tried again. It crashes


>
> (The “adwaita-icon-theme” package is installed in my system profile.)
>

The first time I had not that installed in my profile. And the crash was
immediate.

With that installed, it stumbles, it crashes at the second attempt


>
> ~~ Ricardo
>
>
thanks for looking into this, Ricardo