Re: User-Level services

[John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>]

Thanks Chris,

I wasn’t aware of the autostart spec so I took a look. Thanks! After reading it I’m not sure it provides the retry support (among other things) that a user service might provide. I would love to see something closer to an event triggered service than forking once and forgetting.

It would be awesome if the Guix System could provide a way to configure these declaratively, too. I am not saying shepherd would be the mechanism, necessarily either. I just think people - myself included - will probably want this feature. 

Thanks again,

John

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:48 AM, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> writes:
> 
>> Hi Reza,
>> 
>> I’m not sure this is possible right now. I recently tried making a
>> service which would need the x display variable and I got stuck right
>> about when I needed the logged in user. I would love to see it though.
>> 
>> Does anyone else know?
> 
> I don't think there's an easy solution that's integrated into the Guix
> System (formerly known as GuixSD).  Instead, the best approach is to use
> any of "the usual" methods for starting up user processes.  For example,
> you might use the ~/.config/autostart convention:
> 
> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/autostart-spec/
> 
> -- 
> Chris