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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hej fellow guixers,</p> <p>TL;DR: While using profiles mechanism as described in the Guix Cookbook works rather fine, it doesn't for icon and color themes which are in a separate profile (they cannot be found by DE/WM). Why is that? What to do about it?</p> <p>I am currently in the process of setting up profiles as described in <a href="https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Advanced-package-management.html">this section of the GNU Guix Cookbook</a>. First thing I observe is that the profile generation for those profiles is a million times faster than that of the "normal" profile. I am talking about several orders of magnitude (like 10 seconds versus 10 minutes with a comparable amount of packages). I have two speculations to offer: first, the more generations there currently are, the longer the "current" profile takes to build. Second, icon and color themes take a longer time to "take into account" (dunno why).</p> <p>So far, I am very satisfied with this new workflow (also because of the felt performance gain), but there is one thing that does not quite work out. As prescribed in the link above, each profile needs to be sourced. I currently use, redundantly, both <code>.profile</code> and <code>.bash_profile</code> to do that (just to be sure). It works fine and as expected for all profiles/packages EXCEPT icon themes and color themes.</p> <p>This means that, after I rebooted to see if the changes were applied properly, my mate desktop environment looked completely different and the mate-settings-center said that my previously set color theme couldn't be found.</p> <p>Thus, I wonder: am I doing something wrong concerning the PROFILES mechanism which is the reason for the icon and color themes not being found? Does this mechanism simply not work for these "special" packages? Should I have those packages in my "normal" profile (which means a felt hours of profile generation time each time I upgrade) or in the system profile?</p> <p>Any tips/suggestions are very welcome!</p> <p>Have a good day, fellows :)</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/olivuser"> /u/olivuser </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/qfb4a3/howwhere_do_you_load_your_icon_and_color_themes/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/qfb4a3/howwhere_do_you_load_your_icon_and_color_themes/">[comments]</a></span> |