[version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box

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  • Ludovic Courtès
  • Maxim Cournoyer
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote 2 years ago
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Once there was a commit

commit 3ad3c55842dd34adc4b1a1b65ba0abfbdf5b92ee
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Wed Apr 17 00:27:04 2019 +0200

installer: Desktop environment page now includes window managers.
* gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[snippet]: Change to be a
list of sexps and add default value.
[packages]: New field.
(%system-services): Adjust 'snippet' fields to be lists of sexps.
Add Openbox, awesome, i3, and ratpoison.
(system-services->configuration): Adjust 'snippet' handling. Honor
'packages' field.

Maybe openbox and ratpoison services should not be suggested by the
Guix System graphical installer, because they apparently are unusable
without further config files. Note that sway is not among the
suggested desktop environments either. WDYT?

Regards,
Florian
Maxim Cournoyer wrote 2 years ago
(name . pelzflorian (Florian Pelz))(address . pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de)(address . 59783@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

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> Once there was a commit
>
> commit 3ad3c55842dd34adc4b1a1b65ba0abfbdf5b92ee
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed Apr 17 00:27:04 2019 +0200
>
> installer: Desktop environment page now includes window managers.
>
> * gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[snippet]: Change to be a
> list of sexps and add default value.
> [packages]: New field.
> (%system-services): Adjust 'snippet' fields to be lists of sexps.
> Add Openbox, awesome, i3, and ratpoison.
> (system-services->configuration): Adjust 'snippet' handling. Honor
> 'packages' field.
>
> Maybe openbox and ratpoison services should not be suggested by the
> Guix System graphical installer, because they apparently are unusable
> without further config files. Note that sway is not among the
> suggested desktop environments either. WDYT?

What do you mean unusable? I use ratpoison, and a configuration file is
*not* required. You may be stumped by the empty screen with the mouse
being utterly useless. That's the whole point of ratpoison ;-).

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Thanks,
Maxim
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote 2 years ago
(name . Maxim Cournoyer)(address . maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com)(address . 59783-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Oops yes. Ratpoison even displays instructions to get help in a corner.
C-t C-c works fine (after running `guix build xterm`). Openbox works
fine when right clicking the black screen.

No bug here. Closing.

Regards,
Florian
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Ludovic Courtès wrote 2 years ago
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