Due to the defaults in `systemd.user.settings`, the default value when
there are no settings explicitly set is `{ Manager = { }; }`. This
means an empty file is created even when `systemd.user.settings` is
never used in home-manager configuration. Since user’s `user.conf` is
preferred to the global `/etc/systemd/user.conf`, this can cause any
values set in the latter to be discarded.
The `systemd.user.extraConfig` provides a way to generate a
`systemd-user.conf(5)` file for the user.
This is the home-manager equivalent of NixOS’s option of the same
name, with the difference that NixOS’s option generates a `user.conf`
file that is shared between all users.
This will reduce the system closure size by about 200MB under NixOS by
sharing the glibcLocales package.
When home-manager is installed on Linux without the NixOS module, all
glibc locales are installed, as before.
Resolves: #2333
There is a need to manage XDG Base Directory system directory
environment variables in Home Manager modules. There is an existing
mechanism in `targets.genericLinux.extraXdgDataDirs', but this does not
apply to NixOS systems.
Furthermore, it is important that `XDG_CONFIG_DIRS' and `XDG_DATA_DIRS'
are set in both login shells (to support getty and SSH sessions) as well
as the systemd user manager (to propagate them to user services and
desktop environments).
The first need is addressed by adding the `xdg.systemDirs' module, which
configures lists of directory names for both `config' and `data'
directories. These are then set in
`$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/environment.d/10-home-manager.conf' and picked up by
the systemd user manager.
To make these, and other variables set in
`systemd.user.sessionVariables', available in login shells, an
additional step is added to `etc/profile.d/hm-session-vars.sh' which
exports the result of
`user-environment-generators/30-systemd-environment-d-generator' which
is shipped with systemd. The effect of this generator is to print
variables set on the systemd user manager such that shells can import
these into their environment.
This causes list values to be emitted as a list of key-value pairs
instead of a single key-value pair where the value is space separated.
This is useful, e.g., for socket units that would like to specify more
than one `ListenStream=` address.
