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From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: User-Level services
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 05:14:28 -0800
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To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
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Thanks Chris,

I wasn=E2=80=99t aware of the autostart spec so I took a look. Thanks! After=
 reading it I=E2=80=99m not sure it provides the retry support (among other t=
hings) that a user service might provide. I would love to see something clos=
er to an event triggered service than forking once and forgetting.

It would be awesome if the Guix System could provide a way to configure thes=
e declaratively, too. I am not saying shepherd would be the mechanism, neces=
sarily either. I just think people - myself included - will probably want th=
is feature.=20

Thanks again,

John

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:48 AM, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu> writes:
>=20
>> Hi Reza,
>>=20
>> I=E2=80=99m 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.
>>=20
>> Does anyone else know?
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/autostart-spec/
>=20
> --=20
> Chris