all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* KDE + Guix as a package manager
@ 2020-02-01 21:07 Ekaitz Zarraga
  2020-02-01 23:35 ` Jesse Gibbons
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ekaitz Zarraga @ 2020-02-01 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix\@gnu.org

Hi,

I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed variables).

I tried playing around with different files and setting environment variables but I'm unable to make it work.

How do you manage that?
Thoughts?

Thank you.

Ekaitz

ElenQ Technology
Ethical Innovation

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

* Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager
  2020-02-01 21:07 KDE + Guix as a package manager Ekaitz Zarraga
@ 2020-02-01 23:35 ` Jesse Gibbons
  2020-02-01 23:59   ` sirgazil
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jesse Gibbons @ 2020-02-01 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ekaitz Zarraga, help-guix\@gnu.org

On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it
> for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if
> I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed
> variables).
> 
> I tried playing around with different files and setting environment
> variables but I'm unable to make it work.
> 
> How do you manage that?
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Ekaitz
> 
> ElenQ Technology
> Ethical Innovation
> 
> 
> 

Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a
.desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix-
profile/share/applications/".  If an apps you use doesn't have a
.desktop there, report a bug.
If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in
~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE
to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

* Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager
  2020-02-01 23:35 ` Jesse Gibbons
@ 2020-02-01 23:59   ` sirgazil
  2020-02-02 11:42     ` Ekaitz Zarraga
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: sirgazil @ 2020-02-01 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jesse Gibbons; +Cc: Ekaitz Zarraga, help-guix@gnu.org

 ---- On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:35:02 -0500 Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com> wrote ----
 > On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it
 > > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if
 > > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed
 > > variables).
 > > 
 > > I tried playing around with different files and setting environment
 > > variables but I'm unable to make it work.
 > > 
 > > How do you manage that?
 > > Thoughts?
 > > 
 > > Thank you.
 > > 
 > > Ekaitz
 > > 
 > > ElenQ Technology
 > > Ethical Innovation
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a
 > .desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix-
 > profile/share/applications/".  If an apps you use doesn't have a
 > .desktop there, report a bug.
 > If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in
 > ~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE
 > to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though.
 > 

I don't know if KDE follows freedesktop.org specifications about .desktop files and their locations, but there is a previous thread about this kind of problem; they modify XDG_DATA_DIRS to make things work (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00020.html).

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

* Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager
  2020-02-01 23:59   ` sirgazil
@ 2020-02-02 11:42     ` Ekaitz Zarraga
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ekaitz Zarraga @ 2020-02-02 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sirgazil; +Cc: help-guix\@gnu.org, Jesse Gibbons

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:59 AM, sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> wrote:

> ---- On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:35:02 -0500 Jesse Gibbonsjgibbons2357@gmail.com wrote ----
>
> > On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > >
>
> > > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it
>
> > > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if
>
> > > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed
>
> > > variables).
>
> > >
>
> > > I tried playing around with different files and setting environment
>
> > > variables but I'm unable to make it work.
>
> > >
>
> > > How do you manage that?
>
> > > Thoughts?
>
> > >
>
> > > Thank you.
>
> > >
>
> > > Ekaitz
>
> > >
>
> > > ElenQ Technology
>
> > > Ethical Innovation
>
> > >
>
> > >
>
> > >
>
> >
>
> > Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a
>
> > .desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix-
>
> > profile/share/applications/". If an apps you use doesn't have a
>
> > .desktop there, report a bug.
>
> > If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in
>
> > ~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE
>
> > to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though.
>
> >
>
> I don't know if KDE followsfreedesktop.org specifications about .desktop files and their locations, but there is a previous thread about this kind of problem; they modify XDG_DATA_DIRS to make things work (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00020.html).



Hi,

Thanks! That was the variable I was missing!

KDE supports freedesktop.org but I needed to set the variables for the KDE session and it was running before I was able to set them. The way to set that is to add a script in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/plasma-workspace/env/`. I was able to find this file but I didn't know the specific variable I had to set. Setting XDG_DATA_DIRS there makes everything work.

Thank you very much for you help.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2020-02-02 11:42 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2020-02-01 21:07 KDE + Guix as a package manager Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-02-01 23:35 ` Jesse Gibbons
2020-02-01 23:59   ` sirgazil
2020-02-02 11:42     ` Ekaitz Zarraga

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.