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Subject: Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:34:16 +0200
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To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
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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=3D$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 =E2=80=98startx=E2=80=99 service that=
 would
install in the system profile a script like this?

In fact the =E2=80=98xorg-wrapper=E2=80=99 procedure in (gnu services xorg)=
 pretty much
produces this script.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.