Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes: > 2017-03-02 14:14 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>: > > 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”. > > On my system too. 2 times. Like this > > ... > /run/current-system/profile/share: > /home/my-user/.guix-profile/share: > /run/current-system/profile/share > > these are the last 3 values > > Is this not enough to let Gnome > find the cursors? > > It's not. I just tried again. It crashes > > (The “adwaita-icon-theme” package is installed in my system profile.) > > The first time I had not that installed in my profile. And the crash was > immediate. > > With that installed, it stumbles, it crashes at the second attempt > > ~~ Ricardo > > thanks for looking into this, Ricardo
Fascinating! I've wondered about that bug for a while. I see that in the chat, the following blog post was also mentioned, which describes a little more about the problem: https://brokkr.net/2014/02/09/gnome-crashes-because-of-a-missing-icon/ Have you asked the GNOME devs or checked the GNOME email lists to see if this has been discussed? Unfortunate that simply adding the directory containing the icons to XDG_DATA_DIRS doesn't fix the problem. Maybe there's a different setting that needs to be configured? I'll bet the GNOME devs would know more... -- Chris
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