Re: Integrating different input methods into Guix

[Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>]

Hi,

I understand. For now, let's see what the others say about the proposed design.

If you want to just set the environment variables in your user session, you can just edit ~/.bash_profile and invoke im-config there (maybe unchanged - although it bothers me that it then would invoke random versions of the input methods - which can change depending on what's installed right now).

But it would be nicer if the login screens used the input methods, too. That would be possible by either writing a service, or, as a quick fix, by adding the environment variables to gnu/services/xorg.scm :

              (fork+exec-command
               (list (string-append #$slim "/bin/slim") "-nodaemon")
               #:environment-variables
               (list (string-append "SLIM_CFGFILE=" #$slim.cfg)
                     "IM_CONFIG_xyz=FIXME"
                     #$@(if theme
                            (list #~(string-append "SLIM_THEMESDIR=" #$theme))
                            #~())))))