Re: GDM update!

2019-02-12 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > While supporting Xsession and xinitrc is important for backward compatibility, > Guix could also have its own way with shepherd user services (see the recent > discussion on Guix-devel), which would supersede most "initialization > dotfiles". I agree, but

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
While supporting Xsession and xinitrc is important for backward compatibility, Guix could also have its own way with shepherd user services (see the recent discussion on Guix-devel), which would supersede most "initialization dotfiles". -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc De

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-12 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Timothy Sample skribis: > >> Maybe the GDM folks expect that we write a custom “.desktop” file that >> runs a custom script that checks for “~/.xsession” and runs it. It >> could use “TryExec” to figure out if “~/.xsession” exists, and offer it >>

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Timothy Sample skribis: > I have some changes that are more-or-less ready. It’s mostly just > cleaning up, but it makes it so that GNOME does not have to be in the > system profile for GDM to work. (Note that the GDM service references > GNOME Shell, which requires most of GNOME, but it doesn’t

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Timothy Sample skribis: > Maybe the GDM folks expect that we write a custom “.desktop” file that > runs a custom script that checks for “~/.xsession” and runs it. It > could use “TryExec” to figure out if “~/.xsession” exists, and offer it > to the user (in the session selector) in that

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-11 Thread Alex Griffin
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > BTW, at the Guix Days, there were discussions about defaulting to > LightDM instead of GDM. I forgot to mention then that using LightDM > wouldn’t solve the GNOME use case; in particular, closing the lid under > GNOME wouldn’t lock the scre

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-11 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Ludo, > > https://github.com/GNOME/gdm/commit/0bb8a777cfc0a3bc53c2c2830dd7e6e2baeeef38#diff-9b802b1ffb5f0ff95bfaa85046d262e7 > says: > >>custom is a magic name we used to allow for having the user decide >> their session by a ~/.xsession file. We no l

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-11 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > I’m happy to report that GDM basically works, including choosing among X > session… and it has a neat Guix theme! Woohoo! I like the background! I have some changes that are more-or-less ready. It’s mostly just cleaning up, but it makes it s

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, https://github.com/GNOME/gdm/commit/0bb8a777cfc0a3bc53c2c2830dd7e6e2baeeef38#diff-9b802b1ffb5f0ff95bfaa85046d262e7 says: >custom is a magic name we used to allow for having the user decide their >session by a ~/.xsession file. We no longer support that construct and >haven't for many

Re: GDM update!

2019-02-11 Thread Marco van Hulten
Ludovic et al— On 10 Feb 23:30 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’m happy to report that GDM basically works, including choosing among X > session… and it has a neat Guix theme! > [...] > > The one thing I didn’t get to work is ~/.xsession support. Any ideas? > > I’d real like to get that fixed and th

GDM update!

2019-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I’m happy to report that GDM basically works, including choosing among X session… and it has a neat Guix theme! The one thing I didn’t get to work is ~/.xsession support. Any ideas? I’d real like to get that fixed and then we can finally replace SLiM with GDM as the default. BTW,