Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager

[Tomas Volf]

On 2018-07-26 17:34:16 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thank you for the tutorial!
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> 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?

FYI: There is patch #68289 for some time now providing something like this
(without the service, just the script).

Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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