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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:34:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmauvwnb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0vjm0ct.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:33:54 +0300")

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the tutorial!

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:

> 3. Running "xinit" requires specifying multiple arguments, so you will
>    probably make an auxiliary script to run it.  This script will look
>    like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> DIR=$HOME/.guix-profile
>
> $DIR/bin/xinit -- $DIR/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 -keeptty \
>                -configdir $DIR/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
>                -modulepath $DIR/lib/xorg/modules

I wonder: perhaps we should provide a ‘startx’ service that would
install in the system profile a script like this?

In fact the ‘xorg-wrapper’ procedure in (gnu services xorg) pretty much
produces this script.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-26 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-19 20:33 [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager Alex Kost
2018-07-19 21:56 ` Divan Santana
2018-07-23  7:43 ` Divan Santana
2018-07-23  9:52   ` zloster
2018-07-26 15:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-02-26 14:47   ` Tomas Volf
2024-02-26 17:28     ` Felix Lechner via

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