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Building from source does not install Qtile

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Hi, I’m sorry if this issue looks repetitive, but I took a look at a bunch of issues and posts related before posting this issue.

I installed all dependencies (I assume) and followed the documentation guide to install it localy, so this is what prompted after running the pip install . command:

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It looks nothing wrong happened, but when I type the command whereis qtile, it does not show the binary location or it shouldn’t since it is Python?

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I can tell that there is no command recognized as qtile through zsh, showing the red color. It should’ve be green (this probably answers my previous doubt)

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I also created this desktop entry, but I’m not able to start Qtile (obviously):

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Just for some context: I had Qtile installed normally through pacman, but I wanted to have it installed locally so I could tweak somethings myself, like changing the order of terminal names list in the utils.py that guess_terminal() tries to find.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:14 (7 by maintainers)

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elParaguayocommented, Feb 18, 2022

The Exec line would need to be /home/erlonbie/.local/bin/qtile start

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elParaguayocommented, Feb 18, 2022

Great. I take it that it’s working now. If so, feel free to close this and have fun tweaking your installation of qtile.

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