Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager

[Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>]

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