Re: Setting environment variables for nix service

[dario <dario.klingenberg@web.de>]

Hi,


thanks for your input!

> Could you try ‘~/.bashrc’, please?

In that case, emacs still doesn't recognize the new environment
variables, but of course, any terminals I start withing exwm do. 
Still,
this doesn't really solve the problem. Anyway, I am currently 
working
around the issue by setting the variables manually in my init.el 
using
setenv, but I would still be interested in learning the proper way 
to
set environment variables in a gdm+exwm-setting.

By the way, ~/.bash_profile does get read, and I can e.g. 
autostart
programs by putting the respective commands in ~/.bash_profile. 
However,
environment variables set in ~/.bash_profile are not recognized by 
emacs.

Regarding my second question, it seems that the nix service is 
already
setting some of the nix-specific environment variables, but 
doesn't
change general ones such as $PATH. So maybe the feature I 
suggested is
already implemented, but they took care not change $PATH by 
default
because of the reason you mentioned.


Cheers,

Dario


Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> dario <dario.klingenberg@web.de> writes:
>
>> Two
>> questions:
>>
>> 1. What is the proper way to do this? I am using gdm and exwm, 
>> and
>> adding the line to any of ~/.profile, ~/.xprofile, ~/.zprofile, 
>> or
>> ~/.bash_profile does not seem to have any effect in exwm.
>
> Probably GDM doesn't read those files by design.
>
> Could you try ‘~/.bashrc’, please?
>
>> 2. Couldn't the nix service take care of this automatically? 
>> I'd be
>> happy to contribute a corresponding path once I have the answer 
>> to my
>> first question.
>
> Probably yes, and the patch is welcome!  ;-) Just one 
> consideration - I
> think it should be optional, in case the automation will brake 
> because
> of Nix update or highly customized system.
>
> Regards,
> Oleg.