Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 29

[Gottfried]

Hi,

thanks for help

I have MATE 1.24.1 Desktop
and GDM as display manager

> You need to know what display-manager (the program where you log in to
> > your user) you use and look at its documentation to see what files it
> > may source before it logs you in.

I didn’t find out which version of gdm I have.
the command "gdm --version" does not work.
So I don’t know at the moment which other commands I can use.


I also don’t know at the moment how I can find this in the documentation 
of gdm.
..........................................................................

Interestingly, after opening some packages like libreoffice in the 
terminal, it displays an icon in my main menu for choosing packages.

But not all packages I opened through the terminal show an icon

Kind regards
Gottfried

> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:30:01 +0200
> From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
> To: help-guix@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: to enable all profiles at login time
> Message-ID: <0b483b8f-2399-ea66-80fb-a2c1e20139e4@uni-bremen.de>
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>
> Hi,
>
> > > 5.
> > > is there also a possibility to enable all my profiles when I log in
> > > to my MATE desktop?
> >
> > So that all applications (including terminal emulators, regardless of
> > their configuration) open with them already enabled? There's no such
> > possibility I know of :/
>
> There is a way and I think it may even be standardized.
> On my non-guix distro I use sddm as display-manager. On login, it
> executes /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession as my user.
>
> It contains:
>     9 case $SHELL in
>    10   */bash)
>    11     [ -z "$BASH" ] && exec $SHELL $0 "$@"
>    12     set +o posix
>    13     [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
>    14     if [ -f $HOME/.bash_profile ]; then
>    15       . $HOME/.bash_profile
>    16     elif [ -f $HOME/.bash_login ]; then
>    17       . $HOME/.bash_login
>    18     elif [ -f $HOME/.profile ]; then
>    19       . $HOME/.profile
>    20     fi
> ...
>    41   */fish)
>    42     xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX`
>    43     $SHELL --login -c "/bin/sh -c 'export -p' > $xsess_tmp"
>    44     . $xsess_tmp
>    45     rm -f $xsess_tmp
>    46     ;;
>    47   *) # Plain sh, ksh, and anything we do not know.
>    48     [ -f /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile
>    49     [ -f $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile
>
>
> So it does try to find shell specific config files (for those that it
> knows about).
>
> You need to know what display-manager (the program where you log in to
> your user) you use and look at its documentation to see what files it
> may source before it logs you in.
>
> In that case, you don't need to launch bash as login shell in your
> terminal, because all the profiles are activated when you login.
>
> Martin

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