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EMACSLOADPATH not set when using Guix System + Guix Home +
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On 22-07-2022 12:44, Maxime Devos wrote:
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> On 22-07-2022 12:24, Maxime Devos wrote:
>> retitle 56661 SDDM does not do the equivalent of 'login shell
>> --login', unlike other login managers
>> thanks
>>
>> A digged a little, and found that:
>>
>> For GDM, things work, for SDDM, they don't.
>>
>> There is a 'xinitrc' procedure in gnu/services/xorg.scm that
>> generates a configuration file that has a fallback .xsession that
>> does a --login. This is used by gdm-wayland-session-wrapper,
>> <gdm-configuration> and slim-shepherd-service. However, nothing
>> similar appears to be done for SDDM. So it appears that the SDDM
>> service needs to be tweaked to use xinitrc or such.
>
> It appears that SDDM supports xinitrc files, but it looks for them
> (see data/scripts/Xsession) in $HOME/.xsessionrc and
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d, which do not exist in Guix. There is no
> option for overriding the xinitrc. However, it is possible to
> override the Xsession script used, so we can give SDDM a modified
> Xsession script that uses Guix' xinitrc. I'll give that a try.
>
Actually, I'll be doing other things first, but for anyone interested,
this sounds like a likely solution to me.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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