budgie-desktop-view showing home folder

YuriTheHenrique

JoshStrobl here:
xdg-user-dir DESKTOP
/home/cyan/Desktop

cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Modelos" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imagens" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"

JoshStrobl

YuriTheHenrique Interesting, that all looks correct so I'm curious why GLib thinks the UserDirectory.DESKTOP is different. I'll see about adding some debugging code and getting it pushed out during tomorrows sync so we can get some further details.

brent

Can confirm identical results as OP.

JoshStrobl

Could you folks do the following for me?

Install vala and glib2-devel, which will be dependencies for a test program: sudo eopkg install -c system.devel && sudo eopkg install glib2-devel vala

Next, copy the following contents into a new file called desktop_file_test.vala:

using GLib;

public static int main(string[] args) {
    stdout.printf("%s is the reported get_user_special_dir for UserDirectory.DESKTOP\n", Environment.get_user_special_dir(UserDirectory.DESKTOP));
    stdout.printf("%s is the reported home dir\n", Environment.get_home_dir());
    return 0;
}

Next, open a Terminal and go to the directory you saved the file. If you put it in your home directory, you may not need to go anywhere, but can just do cd ~ to be sure.

Next, run valac desktop_file_test.vala and if it doesn't output anything, it means it built fine.

Run the new program by doing ./desktop_file_test and paste the output here.

Also congrats, you're now a l33t haxor / software engineer. No excuse to submit code patches now! 😛

Edited: Edit to add missing system.devel component installation.

brent

JoshStrobl am trying this now, thanks.

brent

All went good. Nothing output so it's built fine.
But here's where I am stuck:

JoshStrobl Run the new program by doing ./desktop_file_test and paste the output here

How do I do this?

JoshStrobl Next, run valac desktop_file_test.vala and if it doesn't output anything, it means it built fine

This step above was successful (no output) so the last step is to duplicate what I just did? I am certainly not software engineer grade yet🙂

YuriTheHenrique

JoshStrobl here:
~ ❯❯❯ ./desktop_file_test /home/cyan/Desktop is the reported get_user_special_dir for UserDirectory.DESKTOP /home/cyan is the reported home dir

and I already had glib2-devel and vala installed.

edit
Just to add, I managed to create a new user, called cylb, this new user has desktop-view working as it should. Maybe a configuration file not updated?

JoshStrobl

brent Hey there, running ./desktop_file_test is actually me saying "run the newly generated binary called desktop_file_test, which is different from the .vala source file". To do this, you need to reference it in the current working directory, hence the ./ 🙂 Hope that clarifies things.

brent

The reboot worked even though I have no output to show you.

This is the first time I have been able to click on my desktop and open anything since that update a month ago.
Usually I just have to open desktop files through Nautilus.
Good news JoshStrobl , it worked.

Do I uninstall glib2-devel and vala and just wait for the eventual fix?

brent

I gothcha I think.
I ran desktop_file_test.vala with no output which was a good thing. That was saved and run from my home/brent/desktop. I did the cd in the terminal.
From this same directory I can locate no binary file called desktop_file_test.
On the whole computer I can find no file called desktop_file_test, either. Just the .vala

I will reboot.

JoshStrobl

I'm very confused because all that program does is spit the path of a couple directories. Interesting that a reboot would work, that classic "have you tried turning it off and on again".

It looks like you saved your desktop_file_test.vala file to your Desktop folder. Did you cd into the Desktop folder from the Terminal and run valac desktop_file_test.vala? If you do ls, does it not show a "desktop_file_test" without the vala extension? 🤔

brent

JoshStrobl It looks like you saved your desktop_file_test.vala file to your Desktop folder. Did you cd into the Desktop folder from the Terminal and run valac desktop_file_test.vala?

Yes, exactly. I did change directories in terminal (cd /home/brent/Desktop), ran the command desktop_file_test.vala. It produced no output as you predicted.

JoshStrobl If you do ls, does it not show a "desktop_file_test" without the vala extension?

No, the file does not appear to exist. Did the ls. Nautilus searched /home and also /computer. Nada.

Maybe running desktop_file_test.vala was not a success?

JoshStrobl

brent I believe you may have missed the important valac part before desktop_file_test.vala, which is responsible for compiling the vala file into an executable 🙂

brent

JoshStrobl you are exactly right. My mistake.

~/Desktop $ valac desktop_file_test.vala
error: Failed to execute child process “pkg-config” (No such file or directory)
error: Failed to execute child process “pkg-config” (No such file or directory)
error: Failed to execute child process “pkg-config” (No such file or directory)
Compilation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

brent

 ~/Desktop $ desktop_file_test
bash: desktop_file_test: command not found
__

Still can't find that guy.

But on the desktop I just got this new file:
desktop_file_test.vala.c

JoshStrobl

Compilation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Ah could you try doing sudo eopkg install -c system.devel please?

brent

JoshStrobl and this is what I just got:

~/Desktop $ ./desktop_file_test 
/home/brent/Desktop is the reported get_user_special_dir for UserDirectory.DESKTOP
/home/brent is the reported home dir

edit: desktop files and folders can be launched from desktop for the first time in a long time. This is good.
(Next: restore drag and drop. I know, I know, don't push it...)

YuriTheHenrique

YuriTheHenrique Update on tests here;
I searched on the web and xdg-user-dirs man page, since the new user has it working, and man page told me that it fallback to system default configuration if it does not have a file at the login, I tried a little thing:

Got to ~/.config and renamed user-dirs.dirs to user-dirs.dirs.backup, then in terminal I did xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update and xdg-user-dirs-update

Restarted my session, and it is working.