Re: Integrate Guix GUI programs into foreign distro's desktop?

[Bonface M. K.]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
writes:

> Hi,
>> What I do is to ensure that I have the path to the
>> Guix binaries configured properly:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> export PATH="$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
>
> Thanks, anyhow this does not lock like what I'
> seeking. I want to add GUI programm, which are
> isntalled in a profile, while your example only
> adds guix itself - not any profile.
>

In that case, you'd just modify the path to point
to your profile's bin. Another way would be to
source the <your-profile>/etc/profile which
basically set's all these paths for you.

> And what about not GUIC_LOC_PATH,  XDG_*_DIRS, 
> and all the other env-vars. How to avoid conflicts
> with QTDIRS5, QT_PLUGIN_PATH?

See above.

Wrt QT, I'm not exactly sure how to help with
that. I barely use applications that use QT(most
of the things I run use GTK). I can see that GTK
is somewhat set:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--
-
➜  ~ less ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile | grep GTK
export
GUIX_GTK3_PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE:-/gnu/store/36cyb6ndkdd2r9v2fhra68yzdnc89sk3-profile}/lib/gtk-3.0${GUIX_GTK3_PATH:+:}$GUIX_GTK3_PATH"

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The variables defined in the
<my-profile>/etc/profile set the correct paths wrt
your actual profile...

I'm not sure if I was helpful... perhaps someone
else who uses QT applications could chime in and
provide some hints.

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