Hello, I'm not satisfied with how xmonad is integrated with nixos.
The issue is that xmonad isn't only a windowmanager but is also used to start applications (via key bindings). That is why the recommended way ( http://xmonad.org/tour.html ) of starting xmonad is by running it as the last command in your ~/.xsession. That also has the advantage that when you close xmonad (by M-shift-q) you come back to the loginmanager. I can't figure out how the set the xserver options: sessionType, windowManager and sessionStarter to create this situation. Then I read in upstart-jobs/xserver.nix that the users ~/.xsession is also sourced. So I thought I can just put `xmonad` in my ~/.xsession and it should just work. However when reading further I see that after sourcing the users ~/.xsession other commands (windowmanager and sessionCmd) are executed. I don't like that because when I close xmonad I expect to return to the loginmanager. So I modified xserver.nix so that when ~/.xsession exists it is executed and nothing else: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/nixos/nixos # svn diff upstart-jobs/xserver.nix Index: upstart-jobs/xserver.nix =================================================================== --- upstart-jobs/xserver.nix (revision 13157) +++ upstart-jobs/xserver.nix (working copy) @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ### Allow user to override system-wide configuration if test -f ~/.xsession; then source ~/.xsession; - fi + else ### Start a window manager. @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ done ''} - + fi ''; # */ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is this a good solution to my problem? regards, Bas _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
