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Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:34:16 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the tutorial!

Alex Kost <address@hidden> 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=$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 ‘startx’ service that would
install in the system profile a script like this?

In fact the ‘xorg-wrapper’ procedure in (gnu services xorg) pretty much
produces this script.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.



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