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freebsd: Portable start-cosmic based on XFCE4 - #238
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The current script hard codes a few paths that may differ across Unixes. For example, FreeBSD installs non-base binaries into /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin. We can leverage $PATH for these binaries. Additionally, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may be unset without logind. XFCE4 sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if it's unset. The logic for these changes are directly lifted from startxfce4. As for the desktop file, the hard coded path isn't necessary as Exec checks path. I confirmed this by looking through multiple desktop entries. Also, the other COSMIC apps don't hard code the path, except cosmic-comp which I'll go fix now.
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The current script hard codes a few paths that may differ across Unixes. For example, FreeBSD installs non-base binaries into /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin. We can leverage $PATH for these binaries.
Additionally, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may be unset without logind. XFCE4 sets XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if it's unset.
The logic for these changes are directly lifted from startxfce4.
As for the desktop file, the hard coded path isn't necessary as Exec checks path. I confirmed this by looking through multiple desktop entries. Also, the other COSMIC apps don't hard code the path, except cosmic-comp which I'll go fix now.