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[SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

Hi I tried to set up variables like this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt … KDE_Plasma but is not working. I also tried to set up variables via .zshrc and .xinitrc

 export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
 export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5

 export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

But still, opened apps via rofi doesn't have icons. What to do?

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

How do you start X?  Do you have qt5ct installed?  Have you used it?  Or are you using the KDE tools?  These are an either-or, so you shouldn't try to do both.

And do programs opened other than by rofi have proper icons?

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

How do you start X?

SDDM

Do you have qt5ct installed?  Have you used it?

Yes. I also tried without it (because my previous installation worked without it)

And do programs opened other than by rofi have proper icons?

Via konsole (zsh) have proper icons

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

SDDM

That's the problem.  SDDM doesn't source any of the files where you are putting those variables.  You'll have to set variables in SDDMs enviornment, or use a better method of starting X.

Via konsole (zsh) have proper icons

Yup, because when you start a programs from a shell, the above files have been sourced.  So the environment variables in the wiki are working as advertised: you are just not setting them for your AwesomeWM session which rofi inherits from.

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

SDDM

That's the problem.  SDDM doesn't source any of the files where you are putting those variables.  You'll have to set variables in SDDMs enviornment, or use a better method of starting X.

But somehow I made it to work. (with sddm)

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

But somehow I made it to work. (with sddm)

So it works now but you don't know what you did?  It certainly should be possible.  Perhaps in Evironment= settings in the service file.

In any case, if you've got it working, remember to mark the thread as SOLVED.

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

But somehow I made it to work. (with sddm)

So it works now but you don't know what you did?

Exactly

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

It certainly should be possible.  Perhaps in Evironment= settings in the service file.

I didn't do anything with sddm configuration. (I have working solution on my old hdd)

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Re: [SOLVED] AwesomeWM no icons (wiki is not helpful)

I find out answer in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession.
I just add my three strings  in ~/.xprofile (also I changed qt5ct to kde, due to I have installed plasma, and I also start some plasma services for changing keyboard layouts)

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