Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
> The fix may have resulted in unintended side-effects. On a fresh
> installation of the System Distribution v0.8.1 WindowMaker is installed
> by default, but it is not completely functional.
>
> For example, the attempt to change the style via the menu results in
> this error to be displayed:
>
> Could not execute command:
> setstyle
> /gnu/store/...windowmaker.../share/WindowMaker/Styles/Black.style
>
> Likewise, selecting "Configure Window Maker" from the right-click menu
> results in this error:
>
> Could not execute command: exec WPrefs
>
> The "setstyle" executable is located in
> /gnu/store/...windowmaker.../bin/, but is not in the PATH.
Yes, the $out/bin of windowmaker is not in $PATH, and same for sawfish.
Instead of wrapping every executable of session-type, we can:
#1: Add the package to system profile ('packages').
It's not clear to me how to do it now, until we have something
like the NixOS's module system.
#2: Make SLiM use '/run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions' as
session_dir.
So simply add a package providing xsession file to 'packages' should
make it available to SLiM. And all DE and many window-managers provide
xsession files already (eg: openbox, sawfish, xfce), we can patch
the rest (eg: WindowMaker) to install one.
I would like to go #2, WDYT?
