[Nix-dev] setting kdm?

[Tony White]

2009/4/10 Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl>:
> I'm still working on the kdm service. It is still not finished and properly
> tested.
>
> In order to use it you have to add a kdm service in your configuration.nix.
> Basically it should look something like this:
>
> {
>   ...
>
>   services = {
>     kdm = {
>       enabled = true;
>     };
>
>     xserver = {
>       enabled = false;
>       /* Your X server properties here */
>     }
>   };
> }
>
> The KDM service uses all X server settings from the services.xserver
> attribute set (yes I know this should be handled differently).
> Currently, the kdm service is a clone of the xserver upstart service
> modified to handle kdm. When the fixstyle-branche is merged we will
> implement a more cleaner and modular xserver upstart service.
>
> As I said, the kdm service is not finished yet, so I cannot guarantee that
> it will work for you.
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: nix-dev-bounces at cs.uu.nl namens Tony White
> Verzonden: vr 10-4-2009 21:19
> Aan: nix-dev
> Onderwerp: [Nix-dev] setting kdm?
>
> Is there an option to set kdm as the default display manager using
> configuration.nix and could someone please point me towards a working
> example, If they could.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tony
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Thanks for the info Sander,
I follow but not completely.
I can see that with kdm set like that in configuration.nix means that
xserver needs to be enabled = false because kdm is a clone of that but
do the xserver settings whilst this clone of the xserver config is
being used need to be in the kdm section?
What I mean is, If the settings are in the xserver section, Will they
still be used if I do set kdm = true?
So do I need to replicate them into the kdm section?

Sorry if it's silly question but I haven't explored the upstart jobs
yet, NixOS is still pretty new to me and I'm used to the old way of
managing services that Mandriva Linux still uses.

Thanks again,

Tony