Thanks Chris, I wasn’t aware of the autostart spec so I took a look. Thanks! After reading it I’m not sure it provides the retry support (among other things) that a user service might provide. I would love to see something closer to an event triggered service than forking once and forgetting.
It would be awesome if the Guix System could provide a way to configure these declaratively, too. I am not saying shepherd would be the mechanism, necessarily either. I just think people - myself included - will probably want this feature. Thanks again, John > On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:48 AM, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > John Soo <js...@asu.edu> writes: > >> Hi Reza, >> >> I’m not sure this is possible right now. I recently tried making a >> service which would need the x display variable and I got stuck right >> about when I needed the logged in user. I would love to see it though. >> >> Does anyone else know? > > I don't think there's an easy solution that's integrated into the Guix > System (formerly known as GuixSD). Instead, the best approach is to use > any of "the usual" methods for starting up user processes. For example, > you might use the ~/.config/autostart convention: > > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/autostart-spec/ > > -- > Chris
