Re: .xinitrc ignored

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gno <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello guys !
>
> First off, guix is great, even if it takes quite some time to get used
> to :)
Yeah, welcome!

>
> I made it work in no time and am now running guixsd (lightweight
> desktop setup with awesome). I'd like to keep at it but I do need to
> solve 2 problems first. I was asking around in #guix and was referred
> to this email add.
>
> Is there any way to make it respect .xinitrc, preferrably when slim
> starts ? I use a diy keyboard with a custom xmodmap that needs to be
> loaded. I tried all kinds of things with ~ and
> root; .xinitrc, .xserverrc, .xsession (crashed w/o logs).
Our slim only supports `.xsession', which can be a shell script with
executable permission.  It accepts the session command selected by
the user, and should exec it (or something).  My is look like:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/sh

setxkbmap dvorak
$HOME/.fehbg
xrdb ~/.Xresources

# exec "$1" # uncomment this line to start the selected one 
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session i3
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>
> Also, unfortunately awesome-wm is quite dated. I'd like to update it so
> that it is compatible with my config. There have been quite a few API
> changes. Is it feasible to try and package a newer version myself or
> did you not do it already because of missing dependencies or other
> complications ?

Yes, the most important missing one is lua-lgi.  And we don't have
other lua packages too, so I think it's most about figure out
how lua packages should works (finding them during applications
build and running) in guix.