Hi Ben,
> I ran: > > $ find ~/.guix-profile/ -type d -wholename '*lib/gdk-pixbuf*' > /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 > /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0 > /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders > > and then: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-shell > > after which I could then select "Activities" and "Show Applications" > without any problems. > > As you suggested was able to make the workaround persistent with: > > $ echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-session" > > ~/.xsession > $ chmod a+x ~/.xsession > > Is there a way to fix this more permanently in Gnome? Yes, I’ve fixed this on the staging branch for the gnome-shell package. This also fixes another crash we saw when displaying notifications. -- Ricardo