Hi Rutherther, Sorry for the late response.
On Tue, 27 May 2025, at 20:04, Rutherther wrote: > Hi Jayesh, > > "Jayesh Bhoot" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> ======= >> Problem >> ======= >> >> None of the applications I installed are picked up by the KDE desktop's >> application runners - KRunner and Kickoff launcher. >> >> ============================== >> How I've installed my packages >> ============================== >> >> 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. >> >> ================================== >> ~/.guix-profile lookup didn't work >> ================================== >> >> 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: > > ~/.guix-profile is where `guix install` / `guix package` installed stuff > goes, it doesn't have anything to do with guix 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 > > Expected if you've never installed anything to the profile. > >> >> 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' >> $ >> >> ======================================================== >> *.desktop files in system-wide profile are not picked up >> ======================================================== >> >> 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 > > So the desktop files are there. Is /run/current-system/profile/share in > XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable? It has to be, specifically in the > environment of your desktop environment, so checking just in shell might > not be enough. > So I looked in two places: 1. I verified that /run/current-system/profile/share exists in XDG_DATA_DIRS in Konsole/Shell env. $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS | sed s/:/\\n/g | grep "/run/current-system/profile/share" /run/current-system/profile/share 2. Then I verified (or tried to at least) that KDE desktop env also sees it in XDG_DATA_DIRS: $ cat /proc/$(pidof kded6)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | sed '/XDG_DATA_DIRS/!d' | sed 's/:/\n/g' | grep "/run/current-system/profile/share" /run/current-system/profile/share So, it seems that the directory does exist in XDG_DATA_DIRS path and is probably visible to KDE. What else can I check or do? Thank you for your time. >> >> But the user-installed apps are not picked up by either krunner of Kickoff >> launcher. >> >> Any pointers are appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> Jayesh Bhoot > > Rutherther
