Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> writes: > I since learned that setting the paths like that makes the Ubuntu-side > work, but guix stuff will fail. Gnucash bails out, Inkscape segfaults > and GIMP runs without toolbox icons. Also, with a bit of thought, > GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE must point to one file; it can’t be a chain of > paths. > > Thus at the very least GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE must be one thing for > Ubuntu and another for guix. Short of running all guix-installed stuff > from a terminal after setting the variable there, is there any > solution?
Perhaps create a local copy of the .desktop file for each guix controlled application and modify it to set the correct environment variables? I've done that for certain applications where I needed to add custom arguments to the command for it to scale properly with my monitors. I placed mine in $HOME/.local/share/applications aka $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications > I also found out that plain `gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders` resolves to the > guix version. The Ubuntu version resides at > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > > My current theory is that this pixbuf-mixup has been going on for > longer, but only a recent guix update made stuff incompatible. In > addition, some caching might complicate matters. That sounds very likely. I had a similar issue with python, where my foreign distro updated to python-3.10 but guix is still on 3.9. Things started breaking as I had missed to move everything to guix. > Thank you for your thoughts, Fredrik! No problem, I hope you can sort it out. -- s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g