This is copied from NixOS, which is under MIT licence.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/gnome/misc/gpaste/
diff --git a/src/gnome-shell/extension.js b/src/gnome-shell/extension.js
index c8773fd6..9efbed67 100644
--- a/src/gnome-shell/extension.js
+++ b/src/gnome-shell/extension.js
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 const Config = imports.misc.config;
 
+imports.gi.GIRepository.Repository.prepend_search_path('@typelibPath@');
+
 imports.gi.versions.Clutter = Config.LIBMUTTER_API_VERSION;
 imports.gi.versions.GLib = '2.0';
 imports.gi.versions.GPaste = '2';
diff --git a/src/gnome-shell/prefs.js b/src/gnome-shell/prefs.js
index 32244ab2..74b85572 100644
--- a/src/gnome-shell/prefs.js
+++ b/src/gnome-shell/prefs.js
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 imports.gi.versions.GPasteGtk = '4';
 
+imports.gi.GIRepository.Repository.prepend_search_path('@typelibPath@');
+
 const ExtensionUtils = imports.misc.extensionUtils;
 
 const { GPasteGtk } = imports.gi;
diff --git a/src/libgpaste/gpaste/gpaste-settings.c b/src/libgpaste/gpaste/gpaste-settings.c
index 7e53eb64..57c399fc 100644
--- a/src/libgpaste/gpaste/gpaste-settings.c
+++ b/src/libgpaste/gpaste/gpaste-settings.c
@@ -1013,7 +1013,11 @@ create_g_settings (void)
     }
     else
     {
-        return g_settings_new (G_PASTE_SETTINGS_NAME);
+        // library used by introspection requires schemas but we cannot set XDG_DATA_DIRS for the library
+        GSettingsSchemaSource *schema_source = g_settings_schema_source_new_from_directory ("@gschemasCompiled@", NULL, FALSE, NULL);
+        g_autoptr (GSettingsSchema) schema = g_settings_schema_source_lookup (schema_source, G_PASTE_SETTINGS_NAME, FALSE);
+        g_settings_schema_source_unref (schema_source);
+        return g_settings_new_full (schema, NULL, NULL);
     }
 }
 
nput class='txt' type='search' size='10' name='q' value=''/>
<input type='submit' value='search'/>
</form>
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<div class='path'>path: <a href='/guix/log/?id=8f7be48131e0797445550c86403e5880ff9c1849'>root</a>/<a href='/guix/log/gnu.scm?id=8f7be48131e0797445550c86403e5880ff9c1849'>gnu.scm</a></div><div class='content'><table class='list nowrap'><tr class='nohover'><th class='left'>Age</th><th class='left'>Commit message (<a href='/guix/log/gnu.scm?id=8f7be48131e0797445550c86403e5880ff9c1849&amp;showmsg=1'>Expand</a>)</th><th class='left'>Author</th></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-07-25 19:11:37 +0200'>2020-07-25</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu.scm?id=d51bfe242fbe6f3f8f71d723e8fe0c7bbe711ba1'>Use 'formatted-message' instead of '&amp;message' where appropriate.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* gnu.scm (%try-use-modules): Use 'formatted-message' instead of
'&amp;message'.
* gnu/machine/digital-ocean.scm (maybe-raise-unsupported-configuration-error):
Likewise.
* gnu/machine/ssh.scm (machine-check-file-system-availability): Likewise.
(machine-check-building-for-appropriate-system): Likewise.
(deploy-managed-host): Likewise.
(maybe-raise-unsupported-configuration-error): Likewise.
* gnu/packages.scm (search-patch): Likewise.
* gnu/services.scm (%service-with-default-value): Likewise.
(files-&gt;etc-directory): Likewise.
(fold-services): Likewise.
* gnu/system.scm (locale-name-&gt;definition*): Likewise.
* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (check-device-initrd-modules): Likewise.
(check-luks-device): Likewise.
* guix/channels.scm (latest-channel-instance): Likewise.
* guix/cve.scm (json-&gt;cve-items): Likewise.
* guix/git-authenticate.scm (commit-signing-key): Likewise.
(commit-authorized-keys): Likewise.
(authenticate-commit): Likewise.
(verify-introductory-commit): Likewise.
* guix/remote.scm (remote-pipe-for-gexp): Likewise.
* guix/scripts/graph.scm (assert-package): Likewise.
* guix/scripts/offload.scm (private-key-from-file*): Likewise.
* guix/ssh.scm (authenticate-server*): Likewise.
(open-ssh-session): Likewise.
(remote-inferior): Likewise.
* guix/ui.scm (matching-generations): Likewise.
* guix/upstream.scm (package-update): Likewise.
* tests/channels.scm ("latest-channel-instances, missing introduction for 'guix'"):
Catch 'formatted-message?'.
("authenticate-channel, wrong first commit signer"): Likewise.
* tests/lint.scm ("patches: not found"): Adjust message string.
* tests/packages.scm ("patch not found yields a run-time error"): Catch
'formatted-message?'.
* guix/lint.scm (check-patch-file-names): Handle 'formatted-message?'.
(check-derivation): Ditto.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-07-25 19:11:36 +0200'>2020-07-25</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu.scm?id=f9a8dd053c4e0fd1fc4b64291bb90de36520b3bc'>utils: Move '&amp;fix-hint' to (guix diagnostics).</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* guix/utils.scm (&amp;fix-hint): Move to...
* guix/diagnostics.scm (&amp;fix-hint): ... here.
* gnu.scm: Adjust imports accordingly.
* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm: Likewise.
* guix/channels.scm: Likewise.
* guix/profiles.scm: Likewise.
* guix/scripts/system/reconfigure.scm: Likewise.
* guix/ssh.scm: Likewise.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2020-07-25 19:11:36 +0200'>2020-07-25</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/gnu.scm?id=a5e2fc73760a2ae023f2e56bdbf8025971f90e64'>utils: Move &lt;location&gt; and '&amp;error-location' to (guix diagnostics).</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* guix/utils.scm (&lt;location&gt;, source-properties-&gt;location)
(location-&gt;source-properties, &amp;error-location): Move to...
* guix/diagnostics.scm: ... here.
* gnu.scm: Adjust imports accordingly.
* gnu/machine.scm: Likewise.
* gnu/system.scm: Likewise.
* gnu/tests.scm: Likewise.
* guix/inferior.scm: Likewise.
* tests/channels.scm: Likewise.
* tests/packages.scm: Likewise.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>