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Diffstat (limited to 'dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf | 32 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf b/dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf index 2e396d7..61d6402 100644 --- a/dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf +++ b/dot_config/environment.d/10-nix-profile-path.conf @@ -1,22 +1,20 @@ # Prepend the Nix home-profile (and ~/.local/bin) to the systemd *user* -# manager's PATH at manager startup, before any unit in sway-session.target -# launches. +# manager's environment PATH, so it is inherited by every service process. # -# Why this exists: most user-leaf tools (waybar, swayidle, swayr, mako, -# cliphist, inhibridge, wob, …) were migrated from pacman (/usr/bin) to the -# Nix home profile (~/.nix-profile/bin) and their .service units reference -# them by *bare* name, relying on $PATH resolution (see nix/host.nix). The -# systemd user manager does NOT source ~/.zprofile, so without this its PATH -# is only /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin and every bare-name ExecStart fails -# with status=203/EXEC. +# Scope of this file: it fixes PATH for *child-process* lookups made BY the +# services — e.g. wl-paste spawning `cliphist store`, swayidle running +# `swaymsg`/`playerctl`, and helper scripts (display-watcher.sh, +# on-battery-suspend) that call nix tools by bare name. The systemd user +# manager does NOT source ~/.zprofile, so without this its PATH is only +# /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin and those bare-name lookups fail. # -# The sway config also runs `systemctl --user import-environment PATH`, but -# that is a fire-and-forget `exec` that races with -# `systemctl --user start sway-session.target`; if the start wins, the units -# launch with the default PATH. environment.d is read deterministically at -# manager start (before any unit), so it closes that race independently of -# the live session. +# It does NOT fix systemd's own ExecStart= binary resolution: systemd's +# --user manager does not resolve a bare ExecStart name against this +# (imported/environment.d) PATH, so those would still fail 203/EXEC. For +# that reason the units under dot_config/systemd/user/ invoke their main +# binary by absolute path (%h/.nix-profile/bin/<name>); this file only +# covers the secondary PATH lookups those binaries/scripts perform. # -# Note: environment.d is only re-read on a fresh user manager (login/boot) or -# after `systemctl --user daemon-reexec`; it is not picked up mid-session. +# Note: environment.d is only re-read on a fresh user manager (login/boot) +# or after `systemctl --user daemon-reexec`; it is not picked up mid-session. PATH=${HOME}/.nix-profile/bin:${HOME}/.local/bin:${PATH} |