Hello David, thank you for your help David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> wrote: [...] >> The problem is that the lightdm (and LXDE) XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing >> "/home/patrizia/.guix-profile/share" and this is the reason why >> applications installed with Guix are not listed in my menu. > > Hi, you wrote a lot of other stuff that I have trimmed, but from > what I have quoted above it seems that your complaint is that > when you use a login shell you get a XDG_DATA_DIRS value > you want, and when you login via lightdm you do not. Yes, the same also happens when using gdm3 > Is that the entire problem that you want to solve? Yes > If so, this suggests to me that your failure case occurs because you > are missing some aspect of ~/.profile from the good case. Please read all I wrote about the fact that all the environment variables I set via ~/.xsessionrc are correctly configures, all but XDG_DATA_DIRS (for example: INFOPATH, GUIX_LOCPATH) [...] > /etc/profile.d/guix.sh > which looks to set XDG_DATA_DIRS similar to what you want. I'm just using a $HOME/.profile instead of /etc/profile.d/guix.sh but the result is the same (but I admit I have not tried installing /etc/profile.d/guix.sh) As I said, the fact that is driving me crazy is that all ~/.xsession variables are in my environment (as configured), all but XDG_DATA_DIRS [...] Thank you! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
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