[Nix-dev] setting kdm?

[Tony White]

2009/4/12 Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl>:
> Well, I know this sounds confusing because the kdm upstart service is
> basically a hack and not coded properly. The reason why you should disable
> the xserver is that the xserver upstart job will start the slim display
> manager and we want to use KDM as display manager, not slim.
>
> The only reason why there are xserver properties in the configuration.nix is
> that I wanted to use the same xserver properties as the regular xserver
> upstart job, instead of duplicating them in system/options.nix. The kdm
> upstart service is just a temporary service anyway.
>
> I know this is dirty. Preferably, we just want one xserver upstart job that
> you can use to start either slim, kdm, or some other display manager such as
> gdm. When I'm done with experimenting with kdm, I will merge it with the
> regular xserver upstart job.
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Tony White [mailto:tonywhite100 at googlemail.com]
> Verzonden: za 11-4-2009 2:37
> Aan: Sander van der Burg - EWI
> CC: nix-dev
> Onderwerp: Re: [Nix-dev] setting kdm?
>
> 2009/4/10 Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl>:
>> I'm still working on the kdm service. It is still not finished and
>> properly
>> tested.
>>
>> In order to use it you have to add a kdm service in your
>> configuration.nix.
>> Basically it should look something like this:
>>
>> {
>>   ...
>>
>>   services = {
>>     kdm = {
>>       enabled = true;
>>     };
>>
>>     xserver = {
>>       enabled = false;
>>       /* Your X server properties here */
>>     }
>>   };
>> }
>>
>> The KDM service uses all X server settings from the services.xserver
>> attribute set (yes I know this should be handled differently).
>> Currently, the kdm service is a clone of the xserver upstart service
>> modified to handle kdm. When the fixstyle-branche is merged we will
>> implement a more cleaner and modular xserver upstart service.
>>
>> As I said, the kdm service is not finished yet, so I cannot guarantee that
>> it will work for you.
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: nix-dev-bounces at cs.uu.nl namens Tony White
>> Verzonden: vr 10-4-2009 21:19
>> Aan: nix-dev
>> Onderwerp: [Nix-dev] setting kdm?
>>
>> Is there an option to set kdm as the default display manager using
>> configuration.nix and could someone please point me towards a working
>> example, If they could.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Tony
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>
> Thanks for the info Sander,
> I follow but not completely.
> I can see that with kdm set like that in configuration.nix means that
> xserver needs to be enabled = false because kdm is a clone of that but
> do the xserver settings whilst this clone of the xserver config is
> being used need to be in the kdm section?
> What I mean is, If the settings are in the xserver section, Will they
> still be used if I do set kdm = true?
> So do I need to replicate them into the kdm section?
>
> Sorry if it's silly question but I haven't explored the upstart jobs
> yet, NixOS is still pretty new to me and I'm used to the old way of
> managing services that Mandriva Linux still uses.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Tony
>
>

OK. I'm not impatient so I'll not jump into this just yet.
Would you be able to announce when you're a bit a happier with the
code and it becomes a bit less hackie please?
I would be happier to switch then.

Thanks for the reply,

Tony