From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 59783@debbugs.gnu.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6416bxw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87359xzocn.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:50:48 +0100")
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
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2022-12-02 17:50 bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-05 16:40 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-12-05 22:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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