Re: [Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

2017-02-07 Thread zimbatm
Regarding the suid bit, why don't we let the program decide what suid should be applied to it's programs? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/22532 On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at 19:38 wrote: > On 2017-02-07 19:50, Tomasz Czyż wrote: > > David, > > > > I assume you are not talking

Re: [Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

2017-02-07 Thread david
On 2017-02-07 19:50, Tomasz Czyż wrote: David, I assume you are not talking about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16485 [2]? In fact I'm talking about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16845 :-) my mistake Usually I'm using this kind of stuff as part of user session/desktop

Re: [Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

2017-02-07 Thread Tomasz Czyż
David, I assume you are not talking about https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/16485? Usually I'm using this kind of stuff as part of user session/desktop environment. Which means that xfce-session or gnome-session or whatever is starting all those for user. Do we really need to start is

Re: [Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

2017-02-07 Thread zimbatm
As a user I would expect slock to be installed and added to the suid list if I selected it as my screensaver. That way I can also invoke it manually in cases where I want to lock the screen manually. On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, 23:51 , wrote: > Hi! > I am making a patch to fix issue

[Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

2017-02-06 Thread david
Hi! I am making a patch to fix issue #16485 but I have encountered an issue. I added an option called screenLock to services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce that can take only "xscreensaver" "xlockmore" "slock" "gnome-screensaver" as values but: - gnome-screensaver seems to not exist anymore, at