[Nix-dev] tigervnc service?

[Linus Heckemann]

On 23/04/17 06:07, Tim Sears wrote:
> Thanks Volth. That preStart bit got me a bit further. I am running the
> awesome window manager and getting the error:
> 
> awesome: main:619: cannot open display (error 1)
> 
> That leads to the server and ssh tunnel shutting down before anything
> appears on the remote client side.
> 
> Using lightdm and awesome for my physical workstation. Not sure I am
> starting X properly as far as vncserver is concerned.
> 
> My xstartup file looks like this...
> 
> #!/nix/store/hi4j75r312lsjhpdln9p8blyixs59hbs-bash-4.4-p12/bin/bash
>         echo xstartup-start | systemd-cat -t "vncserver"
>         while [ true ]; do
> /nix/store/dglxfr7ivy7hrx2scrli9acsrx0nxicj-awesome-4.1/bin/awesome :1 ;
> sleep 1; done

awesome doesn't take the display as an argument, by the looks of it. Try
using

DISPLAY=:1 ${awesome}/bin/awesome

instead of awesome :1.