Hi Alex,

Thank you for the tutorial!

Alex Kost <[email protected]> skribis:

> 3. Running "xinit" requires specifying multiple arguments, so you will
>    probably make an auxiliary script to run it.  This script will look
>    like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> DIR=$HOME/.guix-profile
>
> $DIR/bin/xinit -- $DIR/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 -keeptty \
>                -configdir $DIR/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
>                -modulepath $DIR/lib/xorg/modules

I wonder: perhaps we should provide a ‘startx’ service that would
install in the system profile a script like this?

In fact the ‘xorg-wrapper’ procedure in (gnu services xorg) pretty much
produces this script.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

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