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From: "Jonathan Lane" <jon@dorsal.tk>
Subject: Re: adding environment variables to /etc/config.scm
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:04:59 -0700
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On Tue Sep 3, 2019 at 11:27 AM Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
=20
> Indeed, on Guix System one is not supposed to modify config files in
> place.
>=20
> Instead, you declare every aspect of your system config in your
> =E2=80=98operating-system=E2=80=99 declaration, and then run =E2=80=98rec=
onfigure=E2=80=99 so that it=E2=80=99s
> in effect.
>=20
> To add environment variables to /etc/environment, you would =E2=80=9Cexte=
nd=E2=80=9D
> =E2=80=98session-environment-service-type=E2=80=99, like so:
>=20
>   (simple-service 'cogl-variable session-environment-service-type
>                   '(("COGL_ATLAS_DEFAULT_BLIT_MODE" . "framebuffer")))
>=20
> The expression above provides a service that you can add to the list in
> the =E2=80=98services=E2=80=99 field of your =E2=80=98operating-system=E2=
=80=99 declaration.
>=20
> HTH!
>=20
> Ludo=E2=80=99.

This worked perfectly, thanks!

Jonathan

--posted from Guix System, now with working Xorg