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| -rw-r--r-- | guides/setups/operating-systems/apps-demo/activate | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guides/setups/operating-systems/apps.org | 4 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps-demo/activate b/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps-demo/activate index 434924a..fbf522c 100644 --- a/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps-demo/activate +++ b/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps-demo/activate @@ -1,12 +1,41 @@ # Hey Emacs; this is a -*- shell-script -*-. # Hopefully invoked by bash 🤞 -_apps_dir=$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE}) +_apps_dir=$(realpath --no-symlinks $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})) _apps_PATH=$( shopt -s nullglob bins=( "${_apps_dir}"/*/bin ) IFS=: eval 'echo "${bins[*]}"' ) - export PATH=${_apps_PATH}:${PATH} + +_apps_XDG_DATA_DIRS=$( + shopt -s nullglob + # We could set globstar and let Bash loose, searching the depths + # of _apps_dir for + # **/{applications/*.desktop,systemd/user/*.service} + # but it seems like asking for trouble. Make some assumptions + # about where applications typically dump their XDG-related files. + datadirs=($( + { + for dkentry in "${_apps_dir}"/*/share/applications/*.desktop + do + echo ${dkentry%/applications/*.desktop} + done + for unit in "${_apps_dir}"/*/lib*/systemd/user/*.service + do + echo ${unit%/systemd/user/*.service} + done + } | sort -u + )) + IFS=: eval 'echo "${datadirs[*]}"' +) +export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$( + if test "${XDG_DATA_DIRS}" + then + echo "${_apps_XDG_DATA_DIRS}:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}" + else + echo "${_apps_XDG_DATA_DIRS}" + fi +) diff --git a/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps.org b/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps.org index efede03..0ff0184 100644 --- a/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps.org +++ b/guides/setups/operating-systems/apps.org @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ infopath-no-defaults=On EOF #+end_src -* TODO systemd services +* DONE systemd services =systemd.unit(5)= § "User Unit Search Path" mentions a couple of variables that we could append: @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ files). Serendipitously, [[https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/1d87a00a951d */ #+end_src -* TODO Desktop entry files +* DONE Desktop entry files The Freedesktop [[https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html][Desktop Menu]] and [[https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html][Desktop Entry]] specs spell out how =XDG_DATA_DIRS= will be searched for =applications/*.desktop= files. |