On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Leonardo Taccari <l...@netbsd.org> wrote: > Hello Ivan, > (I'm also cc'ing Youri who's maintaining lxde) > > "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" writes: >> [...] >> I think most of those issues are caused by the fact that lxde uses its >> default locations of /etc/xdg and /usr/share, instead of /usr/pkg/etc >> and /usr/pkg/share. Is there a way to fix that? >> [...] > > Yes, I think so too. Yesterday on #netbsd@Freenode we have tried to > debug that and at the end adjusting that via environment variables > mostly did the trick (except for the window with `Could not connect: No > such file or directory' error opened when starting LXDE). > > The following ~/.xinitrc workaround these problems: > > #!/bin/sh > > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/pkg/etc/xdg > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/pkg/share
I added these env vars to my ~/.xinitrc and I got a usable desktop environment. Thank you for your help. Regards rambius > startlxde > > > Youri, do you know if lxde needs to be adjusted or if other xdg > related packages are involved in that? And, do you also know if > gdm or other display managers sets that themself? (I'm also a bit > curious why it wasn't spotted previously!) -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com
