Hello! Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis:
> Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de> writes: > >> On 26.03.2018 11:33, Marius Bakke wrote: >>> It could be done with a "profile hook" in (guix profiles). Although for >>> the common case I suppose this will be done by a display manager? >> >> But then all X11-supporting display managers would have to care about it. >> >> According to answers in >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/196677/what-is-tmp-x11-unix >> /tmp/.X11-unix/ is the directory where any X11 server will create the >> unix domain socket X0. >> >> One answer implies that is not necessarily the only way an X11 server >> may communicate with clients on the same machine. >> >> `/gnu/store: grep -iRs X11-unix` only showed results caused by my own >> simple-service, matches in binary files and a comment in a >> slim-sigusr1.patch: >> "The problem was that SLiM doesn't pay attention to SIGUSR1. So in >> practice, if X starts slowly, then SLiM gets ECONNREFUSED a couple of >> time on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, then goes on trying to connect to >> localhost:6000, where nobody answers; eventually, it times out and tries >> again on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and finally it shows up on the screen." >> >> I would think that something must already take care of /tmp/.X11-unix/ >> for an operating-system configuration using plain X11? > > Interesting. I assumed SLiM created it, but could not find it with > 'grep'. Maybe libx11? ‘_xcb_open_unix’, called by ‘_xcb_open’ in libxcb, creates /tmp/.X11-unix. Ideally Wayland’s client library would create it as well if it needs it? > In any case it should be safe to add an activation script that creates > /tmp/.X11-unix on GuixSD. I think it can be part of %desktop-services, > or maybe even %base-services. Sounds like a good idea. Ludo’.
