KDE + Guix as a package manager

KDE + Guix as a package manager

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

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

Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager

[Jesse Gibbons]

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.

Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager

[sirgazil]

 ---- 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).

Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 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.