nixos/x11: start session with dbus-launch

This is needed by most window managers. Desktop environments
usually launch dbus-launch if a session hasn't been started yet
so this shouldn't hurt. The worst it can happen is that one
dbus session will be unused in case it's started twice.

The GDM change is backported from recent gdm.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
index 736621a14a43..7e05cd84be64 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ let
         exec > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1
       ''}
 
+      ${optionalString cfg.startDbusSession ''
+        if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
+          exec ${pkgs.dbus.tools}/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session "$0" "$sessionType"
+        fi
+      ''}
+
       ${optionalString cfg.displayManager.desktopManagerHandlesLidAndPower ''
         # Stop systemd from handling the power button and lid switch,
         # since presumably the desktop environment will handle these.
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
index 9fddc6a72104..1ec098fded6e 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
@@ -238,6 +238,14 @@ in
         '';
       };
 
+      startDbusSession = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = true;
+        description = ''
+          Whether to start a new DBus session when you log in with dbus-launch.
+        '';
+      };
+
       layout = mkOption {
         type = types.str;
         default = "us";