Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 35 (Martin Castillo)

[Gottfried]

Hi,

thanks very much for your help.

But I really mean .xprofile. If it does not exist, create the file and

write

# all Profile beim Start des Displays Managers öffnen
source ~/.bash_profile

into it.
Also, remove that line from the zprofile.

I did it, and when I use:
Alt + F2 and enter "icecat" it opens

or in the terminal I enter: "icecat" it opens.

But in the application menu there are no icon for "icecat"

So basically I get the packages through Alt + F2 and the terminal








Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 23.04.23 um 14:23 schrieb Martin Castillo:

but only the graphical icons in my application meny or the icons, shortcuts on the desktop are not there. So we have a certain success to open the packages from different profiles through the two mentioned possibilities. Of course it would also be fine to have the icons in the GUI, so that I know all the packages, which I have in all my profiles installed. If I forget the name of a package, I have to look in the different manifests in the different profiles in order to know the name of the package, I installed, and then I can enter that in the terminal or through Alt + F2, which is not very handy.

Hi,

Am 22.04.23 um 18:25 schrieb Gottfried:

Hi,

thanks for help.

1.

To test 1) add

echo reading xprofile on $(date) >>~/login.log
to your .xprofile and logout and back in.

I have a file .zprofile in my home directory
but not a file: .xprofile

# all Profile beim Start des Displays Managers öffnen
source ~/.bash_profile

into it.
Also, remove that line from the zprofile.

I thought it was a typo in your other mail. zprofile is the startup file for the zsh shell. It's corresponds to the .bash_profile for bash. But I really mean .xprofile. If it does not exist, create the file and write

I tried with both to add it to my .zprofile file
did not help.

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2.

If this file is really sourced on login, you should find the file

~/login.log with a line saying something like reading xprofile on Do 20. Apr 16:13:21 CEST 2023.

I did not find a file: ~/login.log

I have  files:
.e-log.log
.e-log.log.old

or they are in a different directory?

Try again after doing what I wrote above.

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in /etc/profile there is > I don’t know if that helps, so I copied it

No, it does not. Unless you changed it in your system config, it's the same every other guix user has on their system.

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If login.log exists, then there seems to be something wrong with the lines that should activate the profiles in .bash_profile.

To test 2) start a login shell with a clean environment
env - bash -l

and check whether that shell has all the profiles activated. If not, there is something wrong with your .bash_profile. You should post that then.

gfp@Tuxedo ~$ env - $(which bash) -l
gfp@Tuxedo /home/gfp$ icecat
Error: no DISPLAY environment variable specified
gfp@Tuxedo /home/gfp$ chromium
Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories
Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories

gfp@Tuxedo /home/gfp$

[7535:7535:0422/182050.365759:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(238)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY [7535:7535:0422/182050.366270:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.

 > I tried to open icecat and chromium in that shell but it doesn’t work.





Martin Castillo

This looks good: You started a login shell with an empty environment, (it means when it started, no guix-profile was activated), and the commands icecat and chromium were found. The reason they printed errors is because the couldn't initialize the connection to the window manager, which is necessary for graphical applications. The couldn't connect because the environment variable DISPLAY was not set (since env - removed it for the shell and it's child processes). So, if icecat and chromium are not installed system wide but only in one of your custom profiles, it means they must have been actived by the login shell you started. So your .bash_profile seems to work.

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