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From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
To: dario <dario.klingenberg@web.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting environment variables for nix service
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:08:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0ydqj6n.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo2ezg9z.fsf@web.de> (dario's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:34:16 +0200")

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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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-05 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-04 13:34 Setting environment variables for nix service dario
2020-08-05 14:08 ` Oleg Pykhalov [this message]
2020-08-06 15:47   ` dario
2020-08-08 15:09     ` Setting environment variables for nix service [SOLVED] dario

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