On Wednesday, 2011-10-12, Török Edwin wrote: > On 10/12/2011 04:29 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Wednesday, 2011-10-12, Török Edwin wrote: > >> I tried moving kde to .kde-old, and logging in again but that didn't > >> help. > >> > >> I finally tracked down the problem: XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable > >> was empty which caused a number of applications to not function > >> correctly in KDE (pidgin not finding its icons, openbox not findings > >> the themes, etc.). I removed > >> /var/cache/desktop-profiles/activated-profiles, and run > >> update-profile-cache as root. > >> > >> Now when I login all the icons show up in the tray as they are supposed > >> to, because XDG_DATA_DIRS is no longer empty! > > > > Can you try unsetting XDG_DATA_DIRS and see if the problem shows up > > again? > > This makes the problem show up again > export XDG_DATA_DIRS= > pidgin This should work. The spec [1] section "environment variables" says: "If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used." This is the case "empty" You might want to report this as a bug against pidgin. > So does this: > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=: > pidgin > > This works correctly > unset XDG_DATA_DIRS > pidgin The "not set" case of the spec seems to be done correctly. > And this is what I actually had (sorry missed the :) when I wrote my > previous reply: > > XDG_DATA_DIRS=: Ah. I think this is correct, if annoying, behavior in this case. Cheers, Kevin [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
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