Sergio Pastor Pérez <sergio.pastorpe...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello! My 2 cents. > > Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> writes: >> Services can depend on its symbol, graphical-session and explicitly >> x11-display >> or wayland-display. The service will fail to start when starting Shepherd in >> TTY environment and block dependent services. >> >> The limitation is that we still don't have a way to import environment >> variables >> and we can't manage two graphical sessions at the same time. > > What I do to solve this problems, is to create a shepherd service to > manage the desktop environment[1], Plasma in my case, and I augment the > plasma-workspace[2] package to provide the corresponding > 'wayland-sessions/plasma-shepherd.desktop' file, so I can boot shepherd > from SDDM. > > This has proven to be very effective and allows me to do things such as > `herd restart plasma' at user level without being logged out. >
FYI, GNOME does exactly this by default, the desktop file starts a services manager that then starts the actual desktop. > Additionally, to allow the GPG agent managed by shepherd, to have the > correct environment variables of display and tty, I handle the update of > the variables through autostart, using > `home-xdg-configuration-files-service-type'[3]. > > It would be nice if we found a less hacky way of getting this type of > setup. Since the setup I've presented here requires the user to > configure `plasma-desktop-service-type' jointly with > `home-plasma-service-type'. > > If shepherd could propagate system services to the user-level shepherd, > we could remove `home-plasma-service-type'. That way, installing > `plasma-desktop-service-type', would make all user level shepherd > daemons have `herd start plasma` available. > > What do you think? > > [1] https://codeberg.org/pastor/omega/src/main/pastor/services/plasma.scm#L49 > [2] https://codeberg.org/pastor/omega/src/main/pastor/services/plasma.scm#L24 > [3] > https://codeberg.org/pastor/puntos/src/main/home/home-configuration.scm#L194 > > > Best regards, > Sergio
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