‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, February 2, 2020 12:59 AM, sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> wrote:
> ---- On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:35:02 -0500 Jesse gibbonsjgibbons2...@gmail.com > wrote ---- > > > On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it > > > > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if > > > > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed > > > > variables). > > > > > > > > I tried playing around with different files and setting environment > > > > variables but I'm unable to make it work. > > > > > > > > How do you manage that? > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > Ekaitz > > > > > > > > ElenQ Technology > > > > Ethical Innovation > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Some apps don't generate a .desktop file. If an app does generate a > > > .desktop, it would be installed in "~/.guix- > > > profile/share/applications/". If an apps you use doesn't have a > > > .desktop there, report a bug. > > > If KDE isn't showing an icon for an app with a .desktop file in > > > ~/.guix-profile/share/applications/ then you will need to configure KDE > > > to look there for .desktop files. I don't know how to do that though. > > > > > I don't know if KDE followsfreedesktop.org specifications about .desktop > files and their locations, but there is a previous thread about this kind of > problem; they modify XDG_DATA_DIRS to make things work (see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00020.html). Hi, Thanks! That was the variable I was missing! KDE supports freedesktop.org but I needed to set the variables for the KDE session and it was running before I was able to set them. The way to set that is to add a script in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/plasma-workspace/env/`. I was able to find this file but I didn't know the specific variable I had to set. Setting XDG_DATA_DIRS there makes everything work. Thank you very much for you help.
