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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Subject: Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:40:14 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <20191018123345.sxoawlfothe2tx3d@rafflesia> (Tanguy Le Carrour's
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Tanguy Le Carrour <tanguy@bioneland.org> writes:

> Hi Guix!
>
> I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM
> instead.

This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :)

>
> I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently,
> slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is.

When I last tried sddm, I was able to swap my layout like so:

(service sddm-service-type
 (sddm-configuration
  (xorg-configuration
   (xorg-configuration
    (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "dvorak"))))))

>
> I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend =E2=80=
=A6)` and
> `(compose =E2=80=A6)` blocks from `gdm-service-type` to `slim-service-typ=
e`. But it's
> just a guess. I've tried to define `my-slim-service-type` in my system co=
nfig,
> but failed!
>
> Any help will be welcome!

--
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus