guix development

guix development

[Ali Nourmohammadi]

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Hi thereI'm working on a project that want to build a guix based operating system.For the first issue my job is to run lxqt on guix with openbox window manager.After searching alot i failed in my job.So my last hope is on you to help me with that.As i said i want to build lxqt on guix with openbox so i found this git: https://github.com/Millak/guix/blob/master/gnu/packages/lxqt.scmSo i copy that and made a scm file called lxqt.scm.But when i try to install that with: guix package -f lxqt.scm it failes with this error:<unknown location>: error: invalid field specifier
So i dont know what to do.So please if you are reading this email help me in that. i read all the wiki but i could not find anything.So if u just have a link about what to just let me know.Thank you so much.
With bests.Ali nourmohammadi.

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Re: guix development

[Brett Gilio]

Ali Nourmohammadi writes:

> Hi thereI'm working on a project that want to build a guix based operating system.For the first issue my job is to run lxqt on guix with openbox window manager.After searching alot i failed in my job.So my last hope is on you to help me with that.As i said i want to build lxqt on guix with openbox so i found this git:https://github.com/Millak/guix/blob/master/gnu/packages/lxqt.scmSo i copy that and made a scm file called lxqt.scm.But when i try to install that with:guix package -f lxqt.scmit failes with this error:<unknown location>: error: invalid field specifier
> So i dont know what to do.So please if you are reading this email help me in that. i read all the wiki but i could not find anything.So if u just have a link about what to just let me know.Thank you so much.
> With bests.Ali nourmohammadi.

Hi Alii

Have you set an environment variable corresponding to $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
for the guile interpreter to be able to find your package?



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Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
https://gnu.org/s/guix | https://emacs.org

Re: guix development

[Meiyo Peng]

Hi Ali,

Ali Nourmohammadi <ali.n9014@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi there
> I'm working on a project that want to build a guix based operating system.
> For the first issue my job is to run lxqt on guix with openbox window manager.
> After searching alot i failed in my job.
> So my last hope is on you to help me with that.
> As i said i want to build lxqt on guix with openbox so i found this git: https://github.com/Millak/guix/blob/master/gnu/packages/lxqt.scm
> So i copy that and made a scm file called lxqt.scm.
> But when i try to install that with:
> guix package -f lxqt.scm
> it failes with this error:
> <unknown location>: error: invalid field specifier
> So i dont know what to do.
> So please if you are reading this email help me in that. i read all the wiki but i could not find anything.
> So if u just have a link about what to just let me know.
> Thank you so much.

LXQt has recently been added to guix's master branch. Please run `guix
pull` to update your guix. And there is no need to copy lxqt.scm from
elsewhere.

Please note that LXQt in guix is still immature. lxqt-runner is buggy,
and lxqt-panel simply does not work. If you want to help with the
development, have a look at this previous thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00380.html

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Meiyo Peng

Re: guix development

[Meiyo Peng]

Hi Ali,

Ali Nourmohammadi <ali.n9014@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi mr.meiyo peng
> Can u tell me how can i install that from local directory. i need to do that.
> thank u

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "install that from local
directory". You simply install lxqt as any other package.

- Run `guix pull` to update guix.
- Add lxqt to your config.scm.
- Run `guix system reconfigure config.scm`.

I suggest you to read the guix manual first if you have any question.
And please CC this mailing list when you reply email.

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Meiyo Peng

Re: guix development

[Meiyo Peng]

Hi Ali,

Ali Nourmohammadi <ali.n9014@yahoo.com> writes:

> thank's for your reply.
> but lxqt is not defined as a service, right?
> so how could i install that?

There is no need to define lxqt as a shepherd service. lxqt should be
started by a display manager, like SLiM or SDDM. If you include
%desktop-services in your config.scm, then you have slim installed by
default. Simply install lxqt and shoose lxqt from your login screen to
start lxqt.

Again. Please CC guix-devel@gnu.org when you reply email.

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Meiyo Peng