bug#36014: Allow console-font service to use fonts other than those packaged with kbd

2019-05-30 Thread John Soo
The console font service only allows fonts installed by default in the kbd package (tamzen, for instance, has a nice bitmap font available). I don’t know what the solution might be. I do know that setfont looks in the default font directory only for fonts and the available fonts are those that

bug#36013: Specify keybindings and font for kmscon-service

2019-05-30 Thread John Soo
Kmscon supports various font engines (and more than just bitmap fonts!) and xorg style keyboard layouts configuration. Those would be really nice to be able to configure. I have tried to do this myself. I found the following when modifying the kmscon-service - The options can be provided via

bug#36008: [whishlist] Installer: i3-wm desktop companions

2019-05-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > With the graphical installer, When only installing i3-wm as desktop > manager I got an error like: > > i3-sensible-terminal error... > > because there is no terminal emulator installed by default Also it's lacking a status_command (e.g. i3status) and the dmenu_run

bug#36008: [whishlist] Installer: install a terminal emulator with i3-wm?

2019-05-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, With the graphical installer, When only installing i3-wm as desktop manager I got an error like: i3-sensible-terminal error... because there is no terminal emulator installed by default The workaround is trivial for users but what about to add a terminal emulator to the installer

bug#35875: Guix won't boot after installation with fully encrypted disk

2019-05-30 Thread Reg
Hi, On 2019-05-30 14:10, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Are you sure your laptop does not boot at all? I mean: can't you switch > to a different tty (CTRL-ALT-F2) and see a console login? Nothing happens when I press CTRL-ALT-F2, F3, ... The only key combination that has any effect is CTRL-ALT-DEL.

bug#35875: Guix won't boot after installation with fully encrypted disk

2019-05-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Reg, Reg writes: [...] > (bootloader > (bootloader-configuration > (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) > (target "/boot/efi") > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))) > (mapped-devices > (list (mapped-device > (source > (uuid

bug#35942: guix install: environment variable message is very confusing

2019-05-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > >> Robert Vollmert wrote: >>> Suggestion to instead print: >>> >>> Set the following environment variables to use right away: >> >> Thanks for the bug report! Related (not duplicate) thread: >> >>