nixos/environment: move XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to sessionVariables

Otherwise, in non-interactive contexts (e.g. systemd units), this
entry (the default) won't be in the list.  Only the profile relative
ones would be, since they were already using session variables.  This
is clearly not the correct behavior.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix b/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
index 324b19184747..6cf9257d035a 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/programs/environment.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ in
         # be specified here; do so in the default value of programs.less.envVariables instead
         PAGER = mkDefault "less";
         EDITOR = mkDefault "nano";
-        XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = [ "/etc/xdg" ]; # needs to be before profile-relative paths to allow changes through environment.etc
       };
 
     # since we set PAGER to this above, make sure it's installed
@@ -33,6 +32,11 @@ in
         "/run/current-system/sw"
       ];
 
+    environment.sessionVariables =
+      {
+        XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = [ "/etc/xdg" ]; # needs to be before profile-relative paths to allow changes through environment.etc
+      };
+
     # TODO: move most of these elsewhere
     environment.profileRelativeSessionVariables =
       { PATH = [ "/bin" ];