[Nix-dev] Launching custom xsession

[Arseniy Seroka]

Hello! 


You can use something like this [1]


[1]https://github.com/jagajaga/my_configs/blob/master/nixconfigs/common_configuration.nix#L115

-- 
Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka



On 25 July 2015 16:37:44 Arseniy Seroka <senia00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> You can use something like this [1]
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/jagajaga/my_configs/blob/master/nixconfigs/common_configuration.nix#L115
>
>
> On 25 July 2015 16:25:41 Ruben Astudillo <ruben.astud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On other distros I defined a custom XMonad xsession on the following way.
>> I put a xmonadCustom.desktop on /usr/share/xsessions like this
>>
>>      [Desktop Entry]
>>      Encoding=UTF-8
>>      Type=XSession
>>      Exec=/usr/local/bin/xmonadCustom
>>      TryExec=/usr/local/bin/xmonadCustom
>>      Name=XMonadCustom
>>
>> Where xmonadCustom was a script on /usr/local/bin that was of this form
>>
>>      #!/bin/sh
>>
>>      numlockx &
>>      taffybar &
>>      xfce4-clipman &
>>      redshift -l -33.03:-71.43 &
>>      taralli &
>>      pasystray &
>>      exec xmonad
>>
>> I know this was hacky and I would like to know the proper way to set
>> something like this on NixOS. On IRC somebody mentioned using systemd
>> units but I can't find further info on the wiki. Currently I am using a
>> pure xmonad setup by using
>>
>>       services.xserver.windowManager.xmonad.enable = true;
>>
>> As said on man configuration.nix. Still would appreciate feedback.
>>
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