nixos/startx: send Xorg log to the default location

This partially reverts bf3d3dd19b.

I don't know why we weren't getting a default logfile back then but Xorg
definitely provides one now ($XDG_DATA_HOME for regular users and /var/log for
root, see `man Xorg`)
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Atemu 2020-02-15 23:53:49 +01:00
parent 693a31ab7b
commit d3113a62b8
2 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ in
displayManager.lightdm.enable = lib.mkForce false;
};
systemd.services.display-manager.enable = false;
# Other displayManagers log to /dev/null because they're services and put
# Xorg's stdout in the journal
#
# To send log to Xorg's default log location ($XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/), we do
# not specify a log file when running X
services.xserver.logFile = mkDefault null;
# Implement xserverArgs via xinit's system-wide xserverrc
environment.etc."X11/xinit/xserverrc".source = pkgs.writeShellScript "xserverrc" ''
exec ${pkgs.xorg.xorgserver}/bin/X ${toString config.services.xserver.displayManager.xserverArgs} "$@"

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@ -765,9 +765,6 @@ self: super:
];
propagatedBuildInputs = attrs.propagatedBuildInputs or [] ++ [ self.xauth ]
++ lib.optionals isDarwin [ self.libX11 self.xorgproto ];
prePatch = ''
sed -i 's|^defaultserverargs="|&-logfile \"$HOME/.xorg.log\"|p' startx.cpp
'';
postFixup = ''
substituteInPlace $out/bin/startx --replace $out/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
'';