On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 10:53:24PM +0200, nee wrote: > Hello everyone, a few months ago I installed GuixSD 0.12 in a luks > encrypted partition on my laptop. Here are some problems I have with it > so far. > > […] > > 5. I've been using thunderbird with Enigmail previously. I think I read > on irc that icedove would be the way to go, and that it hasn't been > packaged yet. > Enigmail is really neat, so I wouldn't want to be without it. >
I tried to package Evolution once, but I had problems: It only worked when it was the last installed package. I believe it’s not the only GNOME package sufering from this issue. I still want to try again when I have some more time to learn Guix… That said, I switched to Mutt and am happy with it. Seems much better than Enigmail because it makes clear which parts of a message are signed. I’m not sure though if Thunderbird Enigmail can spit out this information somehow too. > > * An unrelated story: > I had to install GuixSD twice, because I forgot to punch "(dependencies > mapped-devices)" into my file-system configuration. > So shepard would not boot up properly and after some time I got a guile > debug repl. > I see that this is my own fault, for not reading the docs properly. > I hope the new ncurses installer will help to prevent such mistakes. > Probably this should be verified by Guix before GuixSD gets installed. > * Not a problem: Touchpad works different > My first observation was that the touchpad was not working correctly. > The touchpad only works for mouse movement. > Clicking by tapping any point on the pad does not work. > Scrolling by moving down/up the right edge does not work. > > I use the hardware buttons below it for clicking, but I wonder, aren't > there some laptops without those? > Later I found out that scrolling works with two fingers and this whole > setup is actually much better, since I do way less misclicks that way! > > * xf86-input-synaptics? > Because I previously tried nixos I directly installed > xf86-input-synaptics with my installation. I never tried to use my > system without it. If it is required it should be mentioned in the docs. > No. Libinput should be used. Not Synaptics. Synaptics is obsolete. Libinput does not get used on my GuixSD GNOME either though; I believe it still uses Synaptics. My GNOME also does not use Wayland yet, but Xfce does not even support Wayland AFAIK… Regards, Florian