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bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out o
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:40:43 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> 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 ;-).
--
Thanks,
Maxim