Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes: > So, our skillful thomasd solved an issue I had raised. > > In the Gnome desktop, when dragging an application toward the folating bar > on the left, the whole desktop environment crashes, it restarts and you > have to log on again. > > The problem is a missing mouse cursor, as stated here > https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-02-23#T1301986 > > And the proposed workaround works like a charm. > > For reference, it is > 1) "mkdir -p ~/.icons/default" > 2) "ln -s /run/current-system/profile/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/ > ~/.icons/default/cursors" > > What could be a definitive solution to patch the Gnome package with ?
We cannot (and don’t want to) let Guix packages modify the user’s home directory. On my system XDG_DATA_DIRS contains “/run/current-system/profile/share”. Is this not enough to let Gnome find the cursors? (The “adwaita-icon-theme” package is installed in my system profile.) ~~ Ricardo
