From: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: display manager doesn't read ~/.xsession when it is a symlink
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:18:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGxMbPaGEb4TQ=nt9GiFTT-deLp-jr9DwfPZ+pg6vyiFoh20eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Table of Contents
_________________
1. The context
2. The problem
3. The question
4. Appendix
1 The context
=============
I'm using the [display manager]/[login manager] that is bundled with
GUIX by default.
Consider the following `~/.xsession' file.
,----
| cat ~/.xsession
`----
,----
| # Map Caps Lock to Ctrl
| setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps' -layout us
| # Start Emacs using the exwm script
| exwm
`----
I've noticed that when `~/.xsession' doesn't have execute permissions
(see code block below) and when I try to log in to my account through
the display manager, the display manager is shown again (i.e. the
window manager is not started).
,----
| ls -l ~/.xsession
`----
,----
| -rw-r--r-- 1 rdrg users 108 Mar 17 14:34 /home/rdrg/.xsession
`----
When the file has execute permissions (see code block below) and when
I log in to my account through the display manager, the window manager
is started. So, I conclude that `~/.xsession' requires execute
permissions.
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| chmod +x ~/.xsession
| ls -l ~/.xsession
`----
,----
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 rdrg users 108 Mar 17 14:34 /home/rdrg/.xsession
`----
2 The problem
=============
I have created `~/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession' in `~/my/guix-config/',
which is the directory that contains a git repo with all my
configurations (see file structure below).
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| find ~/my/guix-config ! -path '*/.git/*' | tree -a --fromfile
`----
,----
| .
| └── home
| └── rdrg
| └── my
| └── guix-config
| ├── fontconfig
| │ └── fonts.conf
| ├── .git
| ├── home-configuration.scm
| ├── mpv
| │ ├── input.conf
| │ └── mpv.conf
| ├── rime
| │ └── default.custom.yaml
| ├── tmux
| │ └── tmux.conf
| ├── xdg
| │ ├── defaults.list
| │ ├── emacsclient-open-file.desktop
| │ ├── inkscape.desktop
| │ ├── mpv.desktop
| │ ├── okular.desktop
| │ ├── xsession
| │ └── zathura.desktop
| └── zathura
| └── zathurarc
|
| 11 directories, 15 files
`----
The file `~/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession' has the same content as the
file shown in the first section and it has execute permissions.
,----
| cat ~/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession
`----
,----
| # Map Caps Lock to Ctrl
| setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps' -layout us
| # Start Emacs using the exwm script
| exwm
`----
,----
| ls -l ~/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession
`----
,----
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 rdrg users 108 Mar 17 15:07
/home/rdrg/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession
`----
I've symlinked `~/my/guix-config/xdg/xsession' to `~/.xsession' by
using the following instruction in
`~/my/guix-config/home-configuration.scm' (see appendix for my
complete configuration)
,----
| (... some omitted lines ...)
| (service
| home-files-service-type
| `((".xsession"
| ,(local-file "xdg/xsession"))
| (... some omitted lines ...)
| #+END_SRC scheme
|
| I use the following command to create symbolic links from =$HOME= to my
git repo.
|
| #+BEGIN_SRC sh
| guix home reconfigure ~/my/guix-config/home-configuration.scm
`----
After completion of `guix home reconfigure', the file `~/.xsession' is
a symbolic link.
,----
| ls -l ~/.xsession
`----
,----
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 rdrg users 52 Mar 17 14:47 /home/rdrg/.xsession ->
/gnu/store/hs5d7dkq6ywzd062yg4dcqfx5v0wa7dj-xsession
`----
The problem is that when I try to log in through the display manager,
I'm redirected again to the display manager (the same behavior
described above when `~/.xsession' is a regular file and doesn't have
execute permissions).
3 The question
==============
Is it possible for the display manager correctly execute `~/.xsession'
even when it is a symbolic link?
I need to do this because I use `guix home reconfigure
~/my/guix-config/home-configuration.scm' to configure my `$HOME', so
`~/.xsession' is a symbolic link.
4 Appendix
==========
,----
| cat ~/my/guix-config/home-configuration.scm
`----
,----
| ;; This "home-environment" file can be passed to 'guix home reconfigure'
| ;; to reproduce the content of your profile. This is "symbolic": it
only
| ;; specifies package names. To reproduce the exact same profile, you
also
| ;; need to capture the channels being used, as returned by "guix
describe".
| ;; See the "Replicating Guix" section in the manual.
|
| (use-modules (gnu home)
| (gnu packages)
| (gnu services)
| (guix gexp)
| (gnu home services)
| (gnu home services shells)
| (gnu home services ssh)
| ;; zathura
| ;; zathura-pdf-mupdf
| ;; xournalpp
| (gnu packages pdf)
| ;; okular
| (gnu packages kde)
| ;; inkscape
| (gnu packages inkscape)
| ;; git
| (gnu packages version-control)
| ;; libreoffice
| (gnu packages libreoffice)
| ;; mpv
| (gnu packages video)
| ;; audacity
| (gnu packages audio)
| ;; ripgrep
| (gnu packages rust-apps)
| ;; tmux
| (gnu packages tmux)
| ;; xdg-utils
| (gnu packages freedesktop)
| ;; font-misc-misc
| (gnu packages xorg)
| ;; rsync
| (gnu packages rsync)
| ;; tree
| (gnu packages admin)
| ;; emacs-rime
| (gnu packages emacs-xyz)
| ;; xcape
| (gnu packages xdisorg))
|
| (home-environment
| ;; Below is the list of packages that will show up in your
| ;; Home profile, under ~/.guix-home/profile.
| (packages
| (list
| git
| okular
| tree
| xdg-utils
| font-misc-misc
| zathura
| zathura-pdf-mupdf
| tmux
| inkscape
| xournalpp
| libreoffice
| mpv
| audacity
| ;; Transfer files between systems. Both the host and the
| ;; destination must have rsync installed in order transfer files
| ;; mutually.
| rsync
| ripgrep
| setxkbmap
| xcape
| emacs-rime))
| ;; Below is the list of Home services. To search for available
| ;; services, run 'guix home search KEYWORD' in a terminal.
| (services
| (list
| (simple-service
| 'some-useful-env-vars-service
| home-environment-variables-service-type
| '(("EDITOR" . "emacsclient")))
| (service
| home-openssh-service-type
| (home-openssh-configuration
| (hosts
| (list
| (openssh-host
| (name "desktop")
| (host-name "192.168.1.35")
| (user "beep1560")
| (port 22))))))
| (service
| home-bash-service-type
| (home-bash-configuration
| (aliases
| '(("grep" . "grep --color=auto")
| ("ll" . "ls -l")
| ("ls" . "ls -p --color=auto")
| ("d" . "cd ~/Downloads")))))
| (service
| home-files-service-type
| `((".xsession"
| ,(local-file "xdg/xsession"))
| (".local/share/applications/defaults.list"
| ,(local-file "xdg/defaults.list"))
| (".local/share/applications/emacsclient-open-file.desktop"
| ,(local-file "xdg/emacsclient-open-file.desktop"))
| (".local/share/applications/inkscape.desktop"
| ,(local-file "xdg/inkscape.desktop"))
| (".local/share/applications/okular.desktop"
| ,(local-file "xdg/okular.desktop"))
| (".local/share/applications/zathura.desktop"
| ,(local-file "xdg/zathura.desktop"))
| (".local/share/applications/mpv.desktop"
| ,(local-file "xdg/mpv.desktop"))))
| (service
| home-xdg-configuration-files-service-type
| `(("tmux/tmux.conf"
| ,(local-file "tmux/tmux.conf"))
| ("ibus/rime/default.custom.yaml"
| ,(local-file "rime/default.custom.yaml"))
| ("mpv/mpv.conf"
| ,(local-file "mpv/mpv.conf"))
| ("mpv/input.conf"
| ,(local-file "mpv/input.conf"))
| ("zathura/zathurarc"
| ,(local-file "zathura/zathurarc")))))))
`----
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2023-03-17 20:18 Rodrigo Morales [this message]
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