Re: Questions from a newcomer about Guix.

2019-10-07 Thread Chris Marusich
"Бойцов, Вася" writes: > Hello, I would like to make Guix more comfy for me (and maybe others) > I have some questions: > 1. Can one build system with selected CFLAGS? > 2. Is it possible to provide virtuals (package subtitiutions f.e. > toybox/busybox/etc)? > 2.1. I would love to rebuild my

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-10-07, David Wilson wrote: > Should I be able to use "brightnessctl" without sudo if I'm in the > "video" group? Looks like I'm not able to: > > --- > λ brightnessctl set 200 > Can't modify brightness: Permission denied > > You should run this program with root privileges. >

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread David Wilson
> I have a similar problem. I see an authentication box when I try to adjust > screen brightness on the gdm screen, but not when logged into gnome. Does > this happen when you are logged in? Yeah, it happens when I'm logged in to a custom .xsession where I'm using Emacs as my window manager. I

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt m...@ambrevar.xyz writes: > > > Konrad Hinsen konrad.hin...@fastmail.net writes: > > > > > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus > > > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > >> Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus >> different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this really >> useful. I note for example that my own use of profiles is rather >> different from yours: I have

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Konrad Hinsen writes: > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this really > useful. I note for example that my own use of profiles is rather > different from yours: I have per-project profiles for long-term

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 06:25 -0700, David Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first attempt at setting up Guix on my machine, so please > forgive me if I've missed anything obvious here. I've noticed that any > time a process tries to set the backlight brightness of my laptop, a root >

Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread David Wilson
Hi all, This is my first attempt at setting up Guix on my machine, so please forgive me if I've missed anything obvious here. I've noticed that any time a process tries to set the backlight brightness of my laptop, a root authentication prompt appears: https://imgur.com/a/vlB7UtN I've seen

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Pierre, > So what about writing a blog article / cookbook chapter to explain why > profiles and manifests are truly awesome indeed? (Unless this has > already been done and I missed it?) Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus different preferences and use cases)

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Saturday, 5 October 2019 12:55, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > While the documentation refers to profiles and manifests, it does not tell > much > of the use cases and the practical benefits. > > For users coming from non-functional package managers, it's not really obvious > why we would

Re: New reconfigure, creating a file under /etc

2019-10-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
Here's the code I have for /etc/os-release. I defined %os-release-file at the top to keep my actual services list a bit shorter. The '@' notation is a short-cut to not need to actually import (guix packages) or (gnu packages package-management) in my config. Then later when adding the other

Re: New reconfigure, creating a file under /etc

2019-10-07 Thread Gábor Boskovits
John Soo ezt írta (időpont: 2019. okt. 7., Hét 4:12): > Hi there, > > > (services > >(append > > (list (service gnome-desktop-service-type) > > (service etc-service-type > >(list `("os-release" ,(plain-file "os-release" > > "PRETTY_NAME=Guix-System" > >