Setting keyboard layout with SLiM login manager doesn't work

Hi everyone!

I've tried using the default Polish keyboard layout with

SLiM and it doesn't seem to work - the system reconfigures properly

with no single error or warning, then after rebooting and logging in,

the layout is unavailable - only the US layout. The Polish layout is

aviable in tty's, but not in X sessions. I've run guix pull

several days ago.

This is my configuration:

(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "pl" "legacy"))

[...]

(service slim-service-type

(slim-configuration

(display ":0")

(vt "vt7")))

(set-xorg-configuration (xorg-configuration

(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))

slim-service-type)

PS tried sending this message to

but it got lost. Is it an accident, or is sending messages to closed

issues impossible?

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Jan Wielkiewicz

It is closed. This was the last comment:

It’s been a while :-), but this is fixed by

598757e038ab5dea3b59c9c248a2ad860c41fe62, which lets you choose the Xorg

keyboard layout (this was already possible before actually, but a bit

more involved.)

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:27 -0500

quiliro@riseup.net wrote:

The answer is from March, I ran "guix pull" and "sudo guix system

reconfigure /etc/config.scm" today, and the keyboard layout is still

unavailable. There's a chance this bug is similar to the bug from

the past, but not the same, letting it exist unnoticed.

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Jan Wielkiewicz

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 12:23:22AM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote:

Hi,

In case you haven’t found the solution, yet, perhaps this snippet from

my config.scm will help you. You will need to trim it to adapt to your

circumstances.

(services (cons* (service slim-service-type (slim-configuration

(display ":0")

(vt "vt7")

(auto-login? #t)

(default-user "w")

(xorg-configuration

(xorg-configuration

(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "pl,cz"

"legacy,ucw"

#:options '("compose:menu,grp:caps_switch")))))))

;; skipped content

))

W?

Hi,

I've tried this solution already, but it didn't work for me then and it

doesn't work now. When I try to reconfigure my system, guix throws:

guix system: error: failed to load '/etc/config.scm':

/etc/config.scm:66:57: Wrong type to apply: #<<keyboard-layout> name:

"pl" variant: "legacy" model: #f options: ()>

Don't really know why this happens. Here's my config.scm:

(services

(append

(list (service mate-desktop-service-type)

(service slim-service-type

(slim-configuration

(display ":0")

(vt "vt7")

(xorg-configuration (xorg-configuration

(keyboard-layout

(keyboard-layout "pl" "legacy")))))) (service tor-service-type)

(extra-special-file "/bin/bash"

(file-append coreutils "/bin/bash"))

;; (set-xorg-configuration

;; (xorg-configuration

;; (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))

;; slim-service-type))

)

(remove (lambda (service)

(eq? (service-kind service) gdm-service-type))

%desktop-services))))

Dnia 2019-09-26, o godz. 18:17:03

Wiktor ?elazny <wz@freeshell.de> napisa?(a):

Jan Wielkiewicz

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:46:45PM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote:

My wild guess at it would be:

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:35:52 +0200

Wiktor elazny <wz@freeshell.de> wrote:

I can't really remove it - notice I'm using append and two

lists instead of cons* - the remove procedure returns a list of services

without GDM and removing the parenthesis would make a nested list

inside the list of services "operating-system" accepts.

I've just replaced append+list with cons* just for testing purposes and

it still doesn't work, the same result.

But trying another solution have helped:

I replaced (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout ...)) in slim-configuration

with (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout).

Thanks for helping me.

set-xorg-configuration doesn't work with slim though, would be nice if

someone fixed it and the fact (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "pl,cz"

"legacy,ucw")) works on your machine, but not on mine is strange.

Jan Wielkiewicz

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:22:27PM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote:

The last thing that comes to my mind is the line:

(use-service-modules desktop xorg)

Have you got these in your config.scm?

W?

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:27:59 +0200

Wiktor ?elazny <wz@freeshell.de> wrote:

Yes I have. I wouldn't be able to run Mate DE, if I didn't have

these two.

Jan Wielkiewicz