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[bug#29447] [PATCH 0/2] Make Xorg modules configurable, remove WindowMak
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[bug#29447] [PATCH 0/2] Make Xorg modules configurable, remove WindowMaker dependency |
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Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:39:25 +0000 |
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.0K bytes:
> Hi,
>
> The first patch here cleans up ‘xorg-configuration-file’ et al. such
> that users can pass a list of modules to use (until now the list of
> modules was hard-coded in ‘xorg-configuration-file’.)
>
> The second one removes WindowMaker as the default fallback session.
> Instead, the default is to look for a .desktop file at run time in the
> user and system profiles.
>
> The downside is that if no package provides a .dekstop file, then login
> fails. I think that’s acceptable though, because people expect to
> specify a list of window managers in the ‘packages’ field anyway, as
> show in the lightweight-desktop example.
>
> Thoughts?
Overall, good.
What I think is lacking is that we add in the Documentation that
adding a WM/DM is necessary to get started.
It might sound like a little too much of a Cpt. Obvious, but
we can't assume everyone understand the implications of not
defining a WM/DM in the config.
> Ludo’.
>
> Ludovic Courtès (2):
> services: xorg: Allow users to specify a list of modules.
> services: xorg: Remove WindowMaker as a default fallback.
>
> doc/guix.texi | 26 ++++--
> gnu/services/xorg.scm | 244
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 2 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
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> 2.15.0
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