Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: gdm: Pass XDG_DATA_DIRS into session environment.

From: Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:42:01 -0500

* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gdm)[arguments]: Update the pre-configure
phase so that GDM preserves the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable when setting up
the session environment.
---
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index 415398eee..da12a2987 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Jovany Leandro G.C <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Vasile Dumitrascu <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Björn Höfling <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2018 Timothy Sample <[email-masked]>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -5399,6 +5400,11 @@ libxml2.")
                 ;; are met (provided GNOME is installed of course).
                 "gdm_session_set_environment_variable (self, \"XDG_CONFIG_DIRS\",\n"
                 "    \"/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg\");\n"
+                ;; The session bus (which GDM will initialize from the this
+                ;; session environment) needs to know where to find the system
+                ;; service files.
+                "gdm_session_set_environment_variable (self, \"XDG_DATA_DIRS\",\n"
+                "    \"/run/current-system/profile/share\");\n"
                 )))
             ;; Look for custom GDM conf in /run/current-system.
             (substitute* '("common/gdm-settings-desktop-backend.c")
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