Re: How to disable gnome-display manager?

[Ian Eure]

Hi Rodrigo,

(answering in reverse order because I think that makes more sense)

Rodrigo Morales <me@rodrigomorales.site> writes:

> I have two questions:
>
> 2. I wouldn't need to answer the first question if I could make 
> GNOME
>    Display Manager to use Sway (currently, it only uses EXWM and 
>    I don't
>    see a button to change the window manager from EXWM to Sway)

According to the Guix manual’s entry for gdm-service-type:

    GDM looks for “session types” described by the ‘.desktop’ 
    files in
    ‘/run/current-system/profile/share/xsessions’ (for X11 
    sessions)
    and ‘/run/current-system/profile/share/wayland-sessions’ (for
    Wayland sessions) and allows users to choose a session from 
    the
    log-in screen.  Packages such as ‘gnome’, ‘xfce’, ‘i3’ and 
    ‘sway’
    provide ‘.desktop’ files; adding them to the system-wide set 
    of
    packages automatically makes them available at the log-in 
    screen.

I think the solution to your problem may be as simple as adding 
`sway' to your operating-system’s `packages' list, then selecting 
the Sway session type in GDM, by clicking the gear icon in the 
lower-right after entering your username.

> 1. How to avoid the automatic visit to tty7 and the execution of 
> GNOME
>    Display manager?

Your system config looks correct to me, so I’m not sure what’s 
wrong.  Did you run `sudo guix system reconfigure' after editing 
your system config?

On the VT swtiching behavior, I believe that’s how Xorg is set up, 
and it’ll continue to do that no matter what display manager you 
choose.  I may be wrong.

 — Ian