From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Hill Subject: Re: Stateful system directories Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20191018073501.GB1224@E5400> <87ftjosas6.fsf@gnu.org> <20191020090356.GA2275@E5400> <87zhhs29n5.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iN0I0-00068r-6A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:57:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iN0Hy-0001Fa-5N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:57:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zhhs29n5.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Today I had an occasion to create a file in gdm's home directory that should persist across reboots. I needed to set a dconf setting to prevent gdm from putting the computer to sleep. Full details on guix-help [0]. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is yet a way to handle these setting in a declarative way. [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-10/msg00213.html Best, Jack