From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Defining user services in Guix.
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:50:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9vowfn0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Guix,
I just a wrote a small service for redshift¹. Redshift is a program
adjusting color temperature of the screen according to surroundings.
This program needs to communicate to X, so DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY must
be set correctly.
The only way I found to make my service work is something very hacky:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
#$redshift-command
#:user "mathieu"
#:group "users"
#:environment-variables
'("DISPLAY=:0"
"XAUTHORITY=/home/mathieu/.Xauthority")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Is there a better way to define this kind of "user" service in Guix ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
¹: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
next reply other threads:[~2017-04-22 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-22 16:50 Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2017-04-22 18:31 ` Defining user services in Guix Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-22 23:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 16:27 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-04-25 0:02 ` Mekeor Melire
2017-04-25 8:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-27 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-28 15:22 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-05-02 10:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 19:23 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-05-02 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 21:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-03 9:43 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-11 1:29 ` Invoking user shepherd; Was: Re: Defining *user* " Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-11 8:33 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-06-13 8:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-13 8:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-13 14:32 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-13 16:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 21:22 ` Defining user " Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-22 23:53 ` Carlo Zancanaro
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