On 26/12/2022 14:53, Paul Jewell via wrote:
Good afternoon,
I have a home configuration which has worked without issue for some
time, but now I wanted to add the configuration files for urxvt:
(home-environment
(packages ...)
(services
(list
...
(simple-service 'urxvt-config
home-files-service-type
(list `(".Xresources"
,(local-file
"/home/paul/dotfiles/home/file/.Xresources"))
`(".config/urxvt"
,(local-file
"/home/paul/dotfiles/home/files/.config/urxvt")))))
I am getting the error:
guix home: error: invalid name: `.Xresources'
This leads me to three questions:
1. Is there a constraint on file naming with home-files-service-type?
2. If so, is there another mechanism I am supposed to use to create
.Xresources?
3. So I can find my way through this type of problem in the future, is
there some way I can see the source code to home-files-service-type
apart from digging? For a package, I know I can use guix edit
<pkg-name> to see the definition, but I can't see how to do this for
home-files-service-type.
Thanks!
Turns out the problem is the leading fullstop in the .Xresources part of
the filename string. If I rename the file with the leading point, and
modify the file name string accordingly, it all works.
Is this a bug? I would expect any valid filename to be accepted in this
context.
My next problem - xrdb isn't executed when I log into the session -
guess I need to put this in one of the start up scripts!
Best regards,
Paul
