How to appease GDM so I can login with another window manager?
Dear Guix, I am using herbstluftwm as my window manager on my old Guix laptop. It shows up as an option in a bottom right corner of GDM. On my new laptop, this menu doesn't show up. In both cases I have included herbstluftwm as a required package in my config.scm file. My old laptop's config.scm makes no mention of herbstluftwm in the configuration anywhere else than in bringing in the package. However, I further know that this package does create an xsession output to a herbstluftwm.desktop file under /gnu/store. Does anyone have any ideas what the missing incantation is to make herbstluftwm (or any other relatively niche window manager with a .desktop file) show up on the GDM menu? Thanks, Kyle
Re: bad use of syntactic keyword
> guix system: Fehler: _: bad use of '_' syntactic keyword You have a '_' in the sane configuration. If the redshift service declaration is the only change you made, I'd say you imbalanced your parentheses.
Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure
SeerLite writes: > `sudo guix system reconfigure` and any `guix package` command will (by > default) use the generation shown in `guix describe`. On first boot, > this generation _will_ be different from the one you had in the live > system. This is because the generation is saved at > ~/.config/guix/current on every `guix pull` and that file will be gone > together with the live system. That behavior doesn't make sense to me, but I have accepted it for now. As I tried to explain in my question, I *had* performed a guix pull -C ... before attempting to reconfigure the system. However, I think I only tried to do that from the /root user. Since then I have tried to pull from the sudo. This did in fact allow `guix system reconfigure` to run. > You have two options: > > 1. Get the channels you want correctly set up in > ~/.config/guix/channels.scm and run `guix pull` with your user in the > running system. IIRC this takes a while because it'll download the > whole Guix checkout again (the one used to install would have > disappeared along with the rest of the live system). > 2. Run guix pull -C /run/current-system/channels.scm. This will pull > the exact generation used to build the system. This will also take > time. This /run/current-system folder is interesting. When I searched the Info pages I saw also that it is related to files stored under /var/guix. Unfortunately, I was not able to glean the overarching rationale for these directories. > Note that you could also copy /run/current-system/channels.scm to > ~/.config/guix/channels.scm but you have to be careful remove the > commit lines, otherwise all your `guix pull`s will pull the exact same > commits and you'll stay on an outdated system. I appreciate this tip. > Maybe it could be clarified in the manual that another `guix pull` is > needed after the first boot. Or maybe the installation could be > optimized so that the checkout is copied from the live system to the > installed system. I think it needs to be clarified that this process has to be done from a *normal* user account in the *wheel* group. It seems the root user cannot perform this step. >> When I run the following command: >> ``` >> guix system describe >> ``` >> The addition channel gets listed. How can it be listed yet be >> unknown to >> the `guix system reconfigure` command? > > Because it was indeed the channel and commit the system was built > from. It has nothing to do with your "current powers". That all > depends on what generation of Guix you're using AKA what comes up in > `guix describe` This unnecessary tie in between the system state and a particular user's software profile was really tripping me up. > I hope my explanation was helpful! Thanks!
bad use of syntactic keyword
Hi,
after adding: "service redshift" to my config.scm
running
sudo guix system configure /etc/config.scm
it says:
guix system: Fehler: _: bad use of '_' syntactic keyword
german Fehler = mistake
I don’t know where is my mistake.
here my config.scm:
;; This is an operating system configuration generated
;; by the graphical installer.
(use-modules (gnu))
(use-package-modules cups scanner)
(use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg virtualization)
(operating-system
(locale "de_DE.utf8")
(timezone "Europe/Berlin")
(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "de"))
(host-name "Tuxedo")
(users (cons* (user-account
(name "gfp")
(comment "Gfp")
(group "users")
(home-directory "/home/gfp")
(supplementary-groups
'("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video" "libvirt")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages
(append
(list (specification->package "nss-certs"))
%base-packages))
(services
(append
(list (service mate-desktop-service-type)
(service enlightenment-desktop-service-type)
(service cups-service-type
(cups-configuration
(web-interface? #t)
(extensions (list cups-filters
hplip
(service openssh-service-type)
(service tor-service-type)
(set-xorg-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(service libvirt-service-type
(libvirt-configuration
(unix-sock-group "libvirt")
(tls-port "16555")))
(service virtlog-service-type
(virtlog-configuration
(max-clients 1000)))
(service home-redshift-service-type
(home-redshift-configuration
(location-provider 'manual)
(latitude 52.5);northern hemisphere
(longitude 13.5))) ;Berlin
(modify-services %desktop-services
(guix-service-type
config => (guix-configuration
(inherit config)
(extra-options (list "--gc-keep-derivations=yes"
"--gc-keep-outputs=yes")
(sane-service-type _ => sane-backends
(bootloader
(bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
(targets (list "/boot/efi"))
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(swap-devices
(list (swap-space
(target (uuid "51d5cd20-4513-4a02-9e35-df4338eccaa0")
(file-systems
(cons* (file-system
(mount-point "/boot/efi")
(device (uuid "BB77-FE3B" 'fat32))
(type "vfat"))
(file-system
(mount-point "/")
(device
(uuid "4fb0ed7c-61ab-45eb-be0b-ff527b320e6d"
'ext4))
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems))
(initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi"; Needed to find the disk
%base-initrd-modules)))
Thanks for help
Kind regards
Gottfried
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Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 15:12, Luis Felipe wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > > On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 02:50, Kyle Andrews k...@posteo.net wrote: > > > [...] > > > One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system > > configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and > > channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a > > third element hidden away which prevents me from running: > > > `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm` > > > This should be: > > sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm > > Also, the manual recommends the following: > > "Note: It is highly recommended to run guix pull once before you run guix > system reconfigure for the first time (see Invoking guix pull). Failing to do > that you would see an older version of Guix once reconfigure has completed." Oops! Sorry I rushed to respond without reading the last part of your message :) publickey - luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com - 0x12DE1598.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure
Hi! On 2023-03-09 03:50, Kyle Andrews wrote: One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a third element hidden away which prevents me from running: ``` guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm ``` This command errors out: ``` failed to load '/etc/config.scm' ... no code for module ... ``` At the moment since I am still very early in setting up my new computer, I have to type everything so I'm not going to go into more detail than that. Suffice to say it doesn't see the modules I need from the extra channel. It did see them during the installation otherwise my computer would be in a far less usable state than it is. `sudo guix system reconfigure` and any `guix package` command will (by default) use the generation shown in `guix describe`. On first boot, this generation _will_ be different from the one you had in the live system. This is because the generation is saved at ~/.config/guix/current on every `guix pull` and that file will be gone together with the live system. You have two options: 1. Get the channels you want correctly set up in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm and run `guix pull` with your user in the running system. IIRC this takes a while because it'll download the whole Guix checkout again (the one used to install would have disappeared along with the rest of the live system). 2. Run guix pull -C /run/current-system/channels.scm. This will pull the exact generation used to build the system. This will also take time. After either of these you should be able to `sudo guix system reconfigure ...` and get your system running as the channels will be available again to every guix subcommand. Note that you could also copy /run/current-system/channels.scm to ~/.config/guix/channels.scm but you have to be careful remove the commit lines, otherwise all your `guix pull`s will pull the exact same commits and you'll stay on an outdated system. Maybe it could be clarified in the manual that another `guix pull` is needed after the first boot. Or maybe the installation could be optimized so that the checkout is copied from the live system to the installed system. When I run the following command: ``` guix system describe ``` The addition channel gets listed. How can it be listed yet be unknown to the `guix system reconfigure` command? Because it was indeed the channel and commit the system was built from. It has nothing to do with your "current powers". That all depends on what generation of Guix you're using AKA what comes up in `guix describe` I hope my explanation was helpful! SeerLite
Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure
Hi Kyle, On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 02:50, Kyle Andrews wrote: > [...] > > One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system > configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and > channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a > third element hidden away which prevents me from running: > > `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm` This should be: sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm Also, the manual recommends the following: "Note: It is highly recommended to run guix pull once before you run guix system reconfigure for the first time (see Invoking guix pull). Failing to do that you would see an older version of Guix once reconfigure has completed." publickey - luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com - 0x12DE1598.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: The Night Light filter, also known as Blue Light filter or Color Temperature filter
For some reason, my response was not posted by the list - I used a "respond to the list" option of Evolution. Here it is again: W dniu śro, 08.03.2023 o godzinie 09∶49 +, użytkownik Gottfried napisał: > [...] > > Is there a package in Guix to support this? > > [...] Actually, there is a Redshift service for this functionality, documented here: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Desktop-Home-Services.html I am not familiar with Tuxedo software, so I hope this matches your needs.
