Re: Adding shell commands the .profile with guix home

[Andrew Stubbs]

Thanks, this is what I needed.

Can we get something like this example added to the manual? I now see
that the bash example is similar, but this stuff was really not
obvious to me. The "type text-config" is also presented, throughout
the manual, entirely without explanation, but maybe that would be
clear to me if I knew more about scheme/guile?

Thanks again

Andrew

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 00:38, Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> wrote:
>
> HI Andrew,
>
> On Thu, Feb 01 2024, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
> > The manual suggests that "home-shell-profile-configuration" is the way
> > to go, but there's no example given.
>
> The home-shell-profile-service-type is the way to go, but due to the way
> the service is included (as an essential service), you need to add items
> to the configuration using a service extension.
>
> > What's the correct way to do this, please?
>
> The example you provided might look like this instead:
>
>   (simple-service 'sourcing-xprofile home-shell-profile-service-type
>                   (list (plain-file "shell-profile" "echo hi; source 
> ~/.xprofile")))
>
> The items of the list can be any "file-like" gexp (e.g. the results of
> local-file, mixed-text-file, file-append).
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Carlo