Hi David,
David writes:
[...]
> 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.
Sorry I was not clear on the first message, I already clarified this in
other messages in this thread
[...
On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 03:16, Giovanni Biscuolo 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 yo
Hello David and Greg,
Giovanni Biscuolo writes:
[...]
>> On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> The problem is that the lightdm (and LXDE) XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing
>>> "/home/patrizia/.guix-profile/share" and this is the reason why
>>> applications installed with
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 08:33:49PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> What's relevant is that lxsession does not have a proper XDG_DATA_DIRS
You might be misreading things.
> Sorry I made confusion: I'm not concerned about LXTerminal (or other
> terminals), it's just that I need a terminal to chec
Hello Greg,
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 12:36:59AM +1000, David wrote:
[...]
> There's been a whole discussion about the environment variable being
> set right or wrong in a *terminal*, but is that really relevant?
What's relevant is that lxsession does not have a proper X
On Fri, 2022-05-06 at 19:07 +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
[...]
> environment of lxsession:
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>
> g@renaissance:~$ sudo sh -c "tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/16876/environ | grep XDG"
> [XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/s
Hello David,
thank you for your help
David writes:
> On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
[...]
>> The problem is that the lightdm (and LXDE) XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing
>> "/home/patrizia/.guix-profile/share" and this is the reason why
>> applications installed with Guix are n
Hello Greg,
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
[...]
>> No , because in my ~/.xsessionrc (and only there) I have this variable:
>>
>> export XSESSION_WAS_HERE="Yes"
>>
>> and if I check that variable via "env | grep HERE" in an LXTermin
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 12:36:59AM +1000, David wrote:
> On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm
> > display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment)
> >
> > I need to customize some variables so I can see G
On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 02:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm
> display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment)
>
> I need to customize some variables so I can see Guix installed
> applications in my desktop menu, in particular I ne
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> On my laptop, inside LXTerminal:
>
> systemd---gdm3---gdm-session-wor---gdm-x-session---lxsession---lxpanel---lxterminal---bash---pstree
Aha. It's a (grand)child of lxsession, just as with David's.
> I'm sorry I was not clear
Hello Greg and David,
as I said, please leave me in Cc: as I'm not subscribed
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
>> Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list,
>
> OK.
>
>> Actually I'm not configuring it in any way, th
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list,
OK.
> Actually I'm not configuring it in any way, the systemd user environment
> ("systemdctl
> --user show-environment") I get is the result of the default Debian
Hi Greg,
thank you very much for your quick reply!
Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, I had to
"manually" copy the text from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/05/msg00154.html
here
I also did not mention that there is a related thread on guix-bugs
mailing lis
Hi Greg,
thank you very much for your quick reply!
Sorry I did not mention I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, I had to
"manually" copy the text from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/05/msg00154.html
here
I also did not mention that there is a related thread on guix-bugs
mailing lis
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 10:17:01AM +1000, David wrote:
> I'm not using the Debian default. I use ~/bin/_my_export to set umask,
> and it works. I don't have time to experiment with that for this thread.
Yeah, totally understandable. I hate logging out and back in. Way too
many of my things are s
On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 09:34, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:16:09AM +1000, David wrote:
Hi, thanks for your comments.
> > So it appears that . ~/.profile runs when Xsession starts,
> > but ~/.bashrc is not run until I manually open a terminal
> > in LXDE, which appears in the
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:16:09AM +1000, David wrote:
> So it appears that . ~/.profile runs when Xsession starts,
> but ~/.bashrc is not run until I manually open a terminal
> in LXDE, which appears in the above as x-terminal-emul.
Your .profile should be written to dot in ~/.bashrc if it's bein
On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 04:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> > I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm
> > display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment)
Hello
TLDR: try defining the variables you need i
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm
> display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment)
OK.
> This is my ~/.profile:
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>
> ##
Hello,
I'm trying to customize my user environment when using the lightdm
display manager (then the LXDE desktop environment)
I need to customize some variables so I can see Guix installed
applications in my desktop menu, in particular I need to customize
XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
I set
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