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authorTimothy Sample <timsample@gmail.com>2017-11-01 22:12:52 -0400
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-11-07 18:09:13 +0100
commit3eda8dd614fb1c1b44ce85fdaedcbe06245069ba (patch)
treeb4621d846946f868d9fa161d8e5cf81479ddf9bf /gnu
parent51bc8357e8457d5d7168d8837da6e14fa2d98485 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/xorg.scm9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
index 6200fa302a..c5a1a0d423 100644
--- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
@@ -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))))