Hi Stefan, thanks for your input, even though my reply now comes... five years late ;-)
I see that there was no bug but a simple misunderstanding on my part. Since the problem is now very old, there is no reason why this issue should still be present. I will thus close it, in the interest of queue hygiene :) Have a good day :) Stefan Huchler <[email protected]> writes: > [email protected] writes: > >> In the process of changing my login manager to slim (over gdm), I >> noticed that the (keyboard-layout ...) form does not work the same way >> in the (bootloader)/(set-xorg-configuration) and the >> (slim-configuration) form. While in the former cases, (keyboard-layout >> keyboard-layout) uses the string I inputted in the beginning of the >> config file, an error is thrown when I try to do the same in the >> (slim-configuration) form (error 1). When I simply use (service >> slim-service-type) and try to supplement via (set-xorg-configuration), >> an error is thrown as well (error 2). > > Hello "o", > > sadly can't see your name, I run into the same Problem and first found > only your bug report so did not care to look for other bug reports > further back in the past, but this "bug" missunderstanding seems to be > related to bug#37422. > > I found the solution by carefully reading the docu und try/error a few > iterations first with simpler level of config till I got the solution > ( would be easier if I found the bug mentioned earlier but I learned more > this way so it's good :D ) > > This is the solution to get it working: > (service slim-service-type > (slim-configuration > (xorg-configuration (xorg-configuration > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))) > > The tricky part is that you have to use 2 times xorg-configuration one > time for the variable name and one time you have some sort of generator > function for xorg-configuration, that didn't clip for me as newcomer to > guix instantly. > > If we consider that a bug it would be a documentian bug, and maybe that > the set-xorg-configuration method does not work (at least it seems that > way) that is not what the documentation implies. This function looks > like a general function where it says "e.g. gdm" that implies that it > should work for both gdm and all other login-managers the same way. > > Ok just testet it that works to: > > (set-xorg-configuration > (xorg-configuration > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)) slim-service-type) > > Where the documentition there is missleading is that you see the: > > Scheme Procedure: set-xorg-configuration config > [login-manager-service-type] > > optional login-manager-service-type parameter but it's not described > that it defaults to gdm-service-type and can be therefor ommited in the > case of gdm. > > So I would A maybe add more sample code and B adding (default: > gdm-service-type) behind the "set-xorg-configuration" description.
