Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Frederickson <jonat...@terracrypt.net> writes:
> I'm trying to install some software through Flatpak alongside software > installed through Guix (on a Guix System install) and I'm running into > what feels like it should be a minor issue. On other distros (including > my desktop where I'm running Guix as a foreign package manager), I > would modify XDG_DATA_DIRS in $HOME/.profile to accomplish this. > > However, my Gnome session in Guix System seems to ignore this file. > I've tried creating a file in my home directory in /etc/profile like > so, and as far as I can tell it's never getting run: > > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share > echo "hi there!" > $HOME/test.txt > > Is there a preferred way to set environment variables in a graphical > session? If you use GDM and GNOME, and have Bash as your shell, you need to set the variables in “~/.bash_profile” or “~/.bashrc”. Guix System sets up GDM to run your X session from the your login shell (which I’m assuming is Bash). Since Guix System provides a “~/.bash_profile” file by default, Bash will read this and skip “~/.profile”. So if you set the variables in a Bash-specific file it should work. -- Tim
