On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 03:16, Giovanni Biscuolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, you wrote a lot of other stuff that I have trimmed, but from > > what I have quoted above it seems that your complaint is that > > when you use a login shell you get a XDG_DATA_DIRS value > > you want, and when you login via lightdm you do not. > > Yes, the same also happens when using gdm3 > > > Is that the entire problem that you want to solve? > > Yes > > > If so, this suggests to me that your failure case occurs because you > > are missing some aspect of ~/.profile from the good case. > > Please read all I wrote about the fact that all the environment > variables I set via ~/.xsessionrc are correctly configures, all but > XDG_DATA_DIRS (for example: INFOPATH, GUIX_LOCPATH) Hi Giovanni If your ~/.profile and your ~/.xsessionrc are as you showed us in your first message (quoted below), then they do not set any value for XDG_DATA_DIRS. On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo <[email protected]> wrote: > This is my ~/.profile: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > ### Guix settings > # > # add Guix current path > export PATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH" > # Locale path > export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" > # add Guix infopath > export INFOPATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/share/info:$INFOPATH" > # set default Guix profile > export GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" > # source default Guix profile > . $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > and this is my ~/.xsessionrc: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then > . ~/.profile > fi > > export XSESSION_WAS_HERE="Yes" > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I do not see XDG_DATA_DIRS being set anywhere there. Perhaps it is being set by $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile if so then I'm sorry if I missed where you told us that. That is why I am suggesting various methods that I successfully use to configure my environment in LXDE. These methods bascially are using ~/.xsessionrc to invoke statements that need to occur at login, similar to what ~/.profile does. However just invoking these files is insufficient, somewhere they actually need to export the value of XDG_DATA_DIRS that you desire. Where do you try to set XDG_DATA_DIRS ?
