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Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:34:16 +0200 |
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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’.