~ruther/guix-local: services: gdm: Add environment variables.

3eda8dd614fb1c1b44ce85fdaedcbe06245069ba — Timothy Sample 8 years ago 51bc835

services: gdm: Add environment variables.

While not an optimal solution (see comment), this makes GDM functional.

* gnu/services/xorg.scm (gdm-shepherd-service): Set PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variables.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>

patch browse .tar.gz

1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M gnu/services/xorg.scm

M gnu/services/xorg.scm => gnu/services/xorg.scm +8 -1

@@ 573,7 573,14 @@ makes the good ol' XlockMore usable."
                      #:environment-variables
                      (list (string-append
                             "GDM_X_SERVER="
-                            #$(gdm-configuration-x-server config))))))
+                            #$(gdm-configuration-x-server config))
+                           ;; XXX: GDM requires access to a handful of
+                           ;; programs and components from Gnome (gnome-shell,
+                           ;; dbus, and gnome-session among others). The
+                           ;; following variables only work provided Gnome is
+                           ;; installed.
+                           "XDG_DATA_DIRS=/run/current-system/profile/share"
+                           "PATH=/run/current-system/profile/bin"))))
          (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))
          (respawn? #t))))