Enable d-bus? gvim configuration not being read in XFCE desktop

[eggbean]

When I open gvim in the XFCE graphical desktop my configuration is not being read. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the files are not in the standard location in $HOME as I use the following environment variable and set XDG directory locations for vim.

GVIMINIT=let $MYGVIMRC = !has("nvim") ? "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim/gvimrc" : "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.gvim" | so $MYGVIMRC
VIMINIT=let $MYVIMRC = !has("nvim") ? "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vim/vimrc" : "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nvim/init.vim" | so $MYVIMRC

In regular Linux my gvim configuration is read with no problem and it also works if I start gvim from the terminal. Someone said that this is something to do with D-Bus, but when I try sudo systemctl enable dbus-daemon, I get Failed to enable unit: Unit file dbus-daemon.service does not exist.

So what do I do?

[crramirez]

Have you tried to run the command :scriptnames inside gvim? It should tell you which scripts and where it is reading them.

[eggbean]

When I do that I only get the program files and nothing from my user home directory, but it's fine if I start gvim from the terminal.

:scriptnames
  1: /etc/vim/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vim90/debian.vim
  3: /usr/share/vim/vim90/defaults.vim
  4: /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim
  5: /usr/share/vim/vim90/menu.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vim90/autoload/paste.vim
  7: /usr/share/vim/vim90/ftplugin.vim
  8: /usr/share/vim/vim90/indent.vim
  9: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
 10: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/synload.vim
 11: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syncolor.vim
 12: /usr/share/vim/vim90/colors/lists/default.vim
 13: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
 14: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/gzip.vim
 15: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/logiPat.vim
 16: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/manpager.vim
 17: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/matchparen.vim
 18: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
 19: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/rrhelper.vim
 20: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/spellfile.vim
 21: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
 22: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/tohtml.vim
 23: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
 24: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
 25: /etc/vim/gvimrc

:scriptnames
  1: /etc/vim/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vim90/debian.vim
  3: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc
  4: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/xdg.vim
  5: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/opts.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
  7: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/synload.vim
  8: /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syncolor.vim
  9: /usr/share/vim/vim90/colors/lists/default.vim
 10: /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim
 11: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/ftdetect/bash.vim
 12: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/ftdetect/env.vim
 13: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/ftdetect/markdown.vim
 14: /usr/share/vim/vim90/menu.vim
 15: /usr/share/vim/vim90/lang/menu_en_gb.utf-8.vim
 16: /usr/share/vim/vim90/lang/menu_en_gb.latin1.vim
 17: /usr/share/vim/vim90/autoload/paste.vim
 18: /usr/share/vim/vim90/scripts.vim
 19: /usr/share/vim/vim90/autoload/dist/script.vim
 20: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/mappings.vim
 21: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/autocmds.vim
 22: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/plugins.vim
 23: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/autoload/plug.vim
 24: /usr/share/vim/vim90/ftoff.vim
 25: /usr/share/vim/vim90/ftplugin.vim
 26: /usr/share/vim/vim90/indent.vim
 27: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/scripts.vim
 28: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-rsi/plugin/rsi.vim
 29: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-highlighter/plugin/highlighter.vim
 30: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-better-whitespace/plugin/better-whitespace.vim
 31: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-sandwich/plugin/operator/sandwich.vim
 32: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-sandwich/plugin/sandwich.vim
 33: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-sandwich/plugin/textobj/sandwich.vim
 34: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-zoom/plugin/zoom.vim
 35: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/Recover.vim/plugin/recover.vim
 36: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-highlightedyank/plugin/highlightedyank.vim
 37: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
 38: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/gzip.vim
 39: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/logiPat.vim
 40: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/manpager.vim
 41: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/matchparen.vim
 42: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
 43: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/rrhelper.vim
 44: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/spellfile.vim
 45: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
 46: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/tohtml.vim
 47: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
 48: /usr/share/vim/vim90/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
 49: /etc/vim/gvimrc
 50: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/gvimrc
 51: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/vim-highlighter/autoload/highlighter.vim
 52: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/colors/PaperColor.vim
 53: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/restore_position.vim
 54: ~/.dotfiles/config/.config/vim/vimrc.d/distraction_free_mode.vim
 55: ~/.local/share/vim/plugged/Recover.vim/autoload/recover.vim