Re: problems with .desktop icons

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

John Affleck wrote:

 > Sounds like it might be the infamous XDG_DATA problem.  Make sure the
 > shared-mime-info package is installed, then set both XDG_DATA_HOME
 > and XDG_DATA_DIRS to $GARNOME/share in .xsession and
 > .tcshrc/.bash_profile. There seems to be some disagreement as to
 > whether the .xsession is required, but it was for me. You'll need to
 > log out and log back in to see if it worked.

Infamous indeed.  :)  I just added:

    export XDG_DATA_HOME=$GARNOME/share
    export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_HOME

to my gdm GARNOME start up script.  Thanks!

Raul