From 6b7c5ba5353e2a81255879173de758fc5f08be62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Thalheim?= <joerg@thalheim.io>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:05:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] display-manager: fix argument handling of sddm

previously session type was not correctly set.

fixes #23264
---
 .../modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix  | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
index 4e2c0e01ca0..543fd939914 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/default.nix
@@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ let
     ''
       #! ${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash
 
-      # Handle being called by SDDM.
-      if test "''${1:0:1}" = / ; then eval exec $1 $2 ; fi
+      # SDDM splits "Exec" line in .desktop file by whitespace and pass script path as $1
+      if [[ "$0" = "$1" ]]; then
+        # remove superfluous $1 again
+        shift
+        # join arguments again and evaluate them in a shell context
+        # to interpret shell quoting
+        eval exec "$0" "$@"
+      fi
 
       ${optionalString cfg.displayManager.logToJournal ''
         if [ -z "$_DID_SYSTEMD_CAT" ]; then