Re: Error starting lxde

["Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Leonardo Taccari <leot%netbsd.org@localhost> 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!)



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