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Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix
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Marius Bakke |
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Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:18:26 +0200 |
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Thorsten Wilms <address@hidden> writes:
> On 26.03.2018 11:33, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> It could be done with a "profile hook" in (guix profiles). Although for
>> the common case I suppose this will be done by a display manager?
>
> But then all X11-supporting display managers would have to care about it.
>
> According to answers in
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/196677/what-is-tmp-x11-unix
> /tmp/.X11-unix/ is the directory where any X11 server will create the
> unix domain socket X0.
>
> One answer implies that is not necessarily the only way an X11 server
> may communicate with clients on the same machine.
>
> `/gnu/store: grep -iRs X11-unix` only showed results caused by my own
> simple-service, matches in binary files and a comment in a
> slim-sigusr1.patch:
> "The problem was that SLiM doesn't pay attention to SIGUSR1. So in
> practice, if X starts slowly, then SLiM gets ECONNREFUSED a couple of
> time on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, then goes on trying to connect to
> localhost:6000, where nobody answers; eventually, it times out and tries
> again on /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and finally it shows up on the screen."
>
> I would think that something must already take care of /tmp/.X11-unix/
> for an operating-system configuration using plain X11?
Interesting. I assumed SLiM created it, but could not find it with
'grep'. Maybe libx11?
In any case it should be safe to add an activation script that creates
/tmp/.X11-unix on GuixSD. I think it can be part of %desktop-services,
or maybe even %base-services. Would you like to try it?
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- XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/21
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/03/21
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/22
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/25
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Marius Bakke, 2018/03/26
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/26
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix,
Marius Bakke <=
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/03/26
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/26
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/29
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Marius Bakke, 2018/03/29
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/29
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Chris Marusich, 2018/03/29
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/29
- Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Chris Marusich, 2018/03/30
- Services, was: Re: XWayland, /tmp/.X11-unix, Thorsten Wilms, 2018/03/30