05/11: services: gdm: Add environment variables.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 3eda8dd614fb1c1b44ce85fdaedcbe06245069ba
Author: Timothy Sample <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Nov 1 22:12:52 2017 -0400

    services: gdm: Add environment variables.
    
    While not an optimal solution (see comment), this makes GDM functional.
    
    * gnu/services/xorg.scm (gdm-shepherd-service): Set PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS
    environment variables.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
---
 gnu/services/xorg.scm | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/xorg.scm b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
index 6200fa3..c5a1a0d 100644
--- a/gnu/services/xorg.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/xorg.scm
@@ -573,7 +573,14 @@ makes the good ol' XlockMore usable."
                      #:environment-variables
                      (list (string-append
                             "GDM_X_SERVER="
-                            #$(gdm-configuration-x-server config))))))
+                            #$(gdm-configuration-x-server config))
+                           ;; XXX: GDM requires access to a handful of
+                           ;; programs and components from Gnome (gnome-shell,
+                           ;; dbus, and gnome-session among others). The
+                           ;; following variables only work provided Gnome is
+                           ;; installed.
+                           "XDG_DATA_DIRS=/run/current-system/profile/share"
+                           "PATH=/run/current-system/profile/bin"))))
          (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))
          (respawn? #t))))