Gary,
Thanks! I will check the Lutris docs.
On Monday, June 8th, 2026 at 12:48 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm glad to hear that the updated configuration worked for you. I'm not
> familiar with Lutris, but if it isn't recognizing your Guix-configured dbus,
> then I would guess that you might need to set an environment variable for
> that program to find it. Check its documentation to see how it locates the
> system dbus, and hopefully that will solve your problem.
>
> Good luck,
> Gary
>
> "g|ass.Houses" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello Gary! Thank you! The configuration you provoded worked for some
> > flatpaks I have. However, the error I receive when running Lutris
> > (flatpak run net.lutris.Lutris) still complains about dbus. Any idea
> > on how to get Lutris to recognize that the flatpak service is using
> > dbus?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, June 8th, 2026 at 10:36 AM, Gary Johnson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi g|ass.Houses,
> >>
> >> You are close, but your modify-services syntax is slightly off.
> >>
> >> You wrote this:
> >>
> >> > (modify-services %desktop-services
> >> > (dbus-configuration
> >> > (services '(list flatpak)))
> >> > (delete gdm-service-type))
> >> > I tried this and get a "source expression failed to match any pattern"
> >> > error. I also tried it without the "'" for the services list.
> >>
> >> It should be this:
> >>
> >> (modify-services %desktop-services
> >> (dbus-root-service-type config =>
> >> (dbus-configuration
> >> (services (list flatpak))))
> >> (delete gdm-service-type))
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >> Gary
> >>
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