> 1- what does env return? I think the problem lies here.
My environment does not export XDG_DATA_DIRS. If I try it inside gnome, which exports it, everything works nicely. According to the XDG Base Directory Specification[1], if XDG_DATA_DIRS is empty or not set, the defaults should be used. More specifically: $XDG_DATA_DIRS defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the $XDG_DATA_HOME base directory. The directories in $XDG_DATA_DIRS should be seperated with a colon ':'. If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used. Maybe something in the stack is not implementing this characteristic of XDG. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
