On Friday, May 19, 2023 5:58:06 PM EDT Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2023-05-18, Philip McGrath wrote: > > Among other changes upstream, I changed it in > > 23aafc800c9e678662766440916449ec5bbce830 to initialize various XDG > > environment variables, fixing a bug that can prevent KDE Plasma sessions > > from starting properly, instead leaving the user with a black screen. I > > encountered that bug again today when I logged back in after running > > `guix home reconfigure` for the first time on a new Bookworm > > installation. I described the problem in more detail upstream in > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56050 and the linked mailing- list thread. > > This sounds suspiciously similar to a long outstanding debian bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/988260 > > So if updating this would solve that, that is really promising! >
I saw that debian bug when reporting this, and I haven't read it very closely, but it reminded me of a problem I had caused by an unnecessarily propagated input to emacs-next-pgtk: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57421 My patch hasn't been merged upstream, but I make the same change to in my home- configuration.scm. > > Note also that the file was renamed to zzz-guix.sh in > > 93be56a3ab28ed0a482f354b7f536681c99b6999. > > Hrm. that will be a little bit trickier to change... > IMO that change seems less important, since at least my bookworm system doesn't have the /etc/profile.d/xdg_dirs_desktop_session.sh mentioned in the commit message. Updating guix.sh without renaming was enough to fix things for me. > > It is, unfortunately, very late in the bookworm release cycle... might > have to wait till bookworm's first point release... will see how > invasive the changes are. > Understandable—late enough that I'm installing it on my desktop! Thanks for taking a look. Philip
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