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authorRobert Smith <robertsmith@posteo.net>2019-11-05 23:46:46 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2019-11-08 21:32:45 +0100
commit970cb5ceceaa85765230a9f896a43783cdcb4e6c (patch)
tree03d9c383d0a17808b16b54d2cadaa90eee604434 /gnu/services/audio.scm
parent8f61b53efc90ec77c625099a3f2c587115fc64f4 (diff)
services: mpd: Connect to the user's PulseAudio socket.
* gnu/services/audio.scm (mpd-shepherd-service): Set the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable. Signed-off-by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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diff --git a/gnu/services/audio.scm b/gnu/services/audio.scm
index 471c5fd95f..345d8225b2 100644
--- a/gnu/services/audio.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/audio.scm
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ audio_output {
"--no-daemon"
#$(mpd-config->file config))
#:pid-file #$(mpd-file-name config "pid")
+ #:environment-variables
+ ;; Required to detect PulseAudio when run under a user account.
+ '(#$(string-append
+ "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/"
+ (number->string
+ (passwd:uid
+ (getpwnam (mpd-configuration-user config))))))
#:log-file #$(mpd-file-name config "log")))
(stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))