It seems that (almost?) all NixOS users start X using the services module,
because startx seems to be broken for quite some while. And it hit me while
getting to NixOS for the first time as well, so I then decided to just use the
service module.
As I'm working with multiple X servers, writing wrappers in ~/nixpkgs/config.nix
became tedious and so I decided to fix it, hopefully without breaking anything.
The fix consists of:
* Provide a default location for the Xorg log (~/.xorg.log - hope that's okay)
* Expose xauth through xinit to ensure purity and "unexpected behaviour", also
known as "simply not working", because xauth isn't in the user's environment.
* Actually provide the X binary so it doesn't have to be passed to startx every
time.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
6.14.6 requires a newer version of libdrm, which in turn requires a newer
version of mesa. I cheated and edited the generated default.nix file instead of
re-generating it, since generate-expr-from-tarballs.pl complained of a collision
between two tarballs providing different versions of xorg-server.
The NixOS service module loads those modules by default. So we need to build
them here as well.
I'm not really sure why these modules are included by default, because (except
from maybe CGI) they obviously are only usable in very rare cases. Am I wrong?
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The reason because the configure script is unnable to find libxml2 is because it
is searching for a header file in `libxml/*.h`. Obviously this cases an error,
because it's actually in `${libxml2}/include/libxml2/libxml/*.h`, so let's add
the parent directory to --with-libxml2 and remove the comment from buildInputs.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
