Hi, On Sun, 07 May 2017 17:35:46 -0700 Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this supposed to work "out of the box" on foreign distros?
If you set the environment variables as documented yes - although some distros do weird things in their startup scripts if the environment variable is already set when they start up. > I've noticed that when I install an application (e.g., > "cool-retro-term"), the application shows up via the "Search" feature of > the "Application Overview" in GNOME3 on GuixSD [1], but not in Ubuntu > via the Dash's search results [2]. In Ubuntu, I tried adding > $HOME/.guix-profile/share to the XDG_DATA_DIRS, but even after > rebooting, the Dash search still failed to find the application. Strange. I'd inspect /proc/<dash-pid>/environ whether it actually got the environment variable, and then attach via strace -p <dash-pid> to find out what desktop files it's reading... > In Ubuntu, the application only showed up in the Dash search results > after I manually copied the desktop entry for the application out of the > store and put it into a well-known location, such as > ~/.local/share/applications. That should not be the case - sounds like a bug. The question is where...
