Hello,
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Problem
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None of the applications I installed are picked up by the KDE desktop's
application runners - KRunner and Kickoff launcher.
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How I've installed my packages
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I've specified the applications in the system's os.scm:
(packages
(append
(specifications->packages
(list
"ark"
"emacs"
"kmousetool"
;; others
))
%base-packages))
So that they are installed along with the command:
$ sudo guix system reconfigure safed-hathi/os.scm.
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~/.guix-profile lookup didn't work
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I found a Guix Help thread
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00007.html) which
suggested to check if the *.desktop files are located in
~/.guix-profile/share/applications/. But, ~/.guix-profile does not have that
structure at all in my system:
$ ls -la ~/.guix-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bhoot users 46 May 12 22:23 */home/bhoot/.guix-profile* ->
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile
Source of the link does not exist though:
$ ls /var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile
ls: cannot access '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile': No such
file or directory
But an empty lock file does exist:
$ ls /var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile.lock
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile.lock
$ cat /var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/guix-profile.lock
$
I even tried to search for *.desktop files in the whole user dir, but in vain:
$ find /var/guix/profiles/per-user/bhoot/ -name '*.desktop'
$
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*.desktop files in system-wide profile are not picked up
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I then looked for the .desktop files in the system directories and found their
symlinks inside /run/current-system/profile/share/applications/*.
This directory has .desktop files for system-default applications:
$ find -L /run/current-system -wholename '*applications/*.desktop' | grep
konsole
/run/current-system/profile/share/applications/org.kde.*konsole*.desktop
as well as for applications I explicitly installed:
$ find -L /run/current-system -wholename '*applications/*.desktop' | grep emacs
/run/current-system/profile/share/applications/*emacs*.desktop
But the user-installed apps are not picked up by either krunner of Kickoff
launcher.
Any pointers are appreciated.
Regards,
Jayesh Bhoot
