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Re: adding environment variables to /etc/config.scm
From: |
Jonathan Lane |
Subject: |
Re: adding environment variables to /etc/config.scm |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:04:59 -0700 |
On Tue Sep 3, 2019 at 11:27 AM Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
> Indeed, on Guix System one is not supposed to modify config files in
> place.
>
> Instead, you declare every aspect of your system config in your
> ‘operating-system’ declaration, and then run ‘reconfigure’ so that it’s
> in effect.
>
> To add environment variables to /etc/environment, you would “extend”
> ‘session-environment-service-type’, like so:
>
> (simple-service 'cogl-variable session-environment-service-type
> '(("COGL_ATLAS_DEFAULT_BLIT_MODE" . "framebuffer")))
>
> The expression above provides a service that you can add to the list in
> the ‘services’ field of your ‘operating-system’ declaration.
>
> HTH!
>
> Ludo’.
This worked perfectly, thanks!
Jonathan
--posted from Guix System, now with working Xorg