From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 <ng0@pragmatique.xyz> Subject: Re: I installed GuixSD on my laptop Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 22:57:38 +0000 Message-ID: <20170603225738.gxbczfj4aat3pky3@abyayala> References: <86942c60-38fb-7cd4-7162-72705c50c15a@cock.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6sqbrdo34zbcndhq" Return-path: <help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>) id 1dHHzU-0000XU-Mg for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:57:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>) id 1dHHzR-0000X8-IZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:57:52 -0400 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:51542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <ng0@pragmatique.xyz>) id 1dHHzR-0000Vh-AZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:57:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86942c60-38fb-7cd4-7162-72705c50c15a@cock.li> List-Id: <help-guix.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-guix>, <mailto:help-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/> List-Post: <mailto:help-guix@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix>, <mailto:help-guix-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" <help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> To: nee <nee@cock.li> Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --6sqbrdo34zbcndhq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi nee, I just have a quick reply to some of the points below. Good night! nee transcribed 2.9K bytes: > Hello everyone, a few months ago I installed GuixSD 0.12 in a luks > encrypted partition on my laptop. Here are some problems I have with it > so far. >=20 > 1. How do I set the locale in the login manager and Grub. > I have a German keyboard, but the system boots with an english > key-setting and only changes when I enter gnome or xfce (I had to set > them up via their guis). Is there any GuixSD-level setting for this? The > install manual didn't mention it. > It's a real pain to enter my password like this. This is a feature-bug in SLiM and whatever this other login manager is call= ed. I reported a bug on this, and a partial workaround exists. I hope that lightdm can deal with this better. More on the solution either tomorrow or by someone else in the meantime. > 2. I have to enter my disk-encryption-password two times on every boot. > Once before grub and one time when shepard boots up. I have my > bootloader on a diferent drive, might this be related to the issue? This also happens when it is just on one drive. I think there exist cryptsetup solutions with detached heads etc which make this easier to deal with. I haven't tested it in practice. > 3. When I enter one wrong password on the first disk-encryption-prompt > (before grub) I get thrown into a grub console. It should give me a few > more tries. >=20 > 4. ibus is not working in xfce. I copied the paths from the popup of > ibus-setup into my .bashrc, but even after login out, I couldn't get any > program to actually use ibus. I also had no success in gnome later. I > was trying to get Japanease input to work. Can you report a bug on this or check if there's a bug already reported for= it? I'm also looking to update the whole lot of XFCE, but this might not solve your problem. > 5. I've been using thunderbird with Enigmail previously. I think I read > on irc that icedove would be the way to go, and that it hasn't been > packaged yet. > Enigmail is really neat, so I wouldn't want to be without it. > > 6. My laptop has an Nvidia and an Intel graphics card, how do I force > intel to be active? > The Nouveau drivers can't do any 3d stuff at a bearable framerate, > probably due to it's dependence on blobs. > I wonder if Intel would perform better. How would I switch between them > on GuixSD? >=20 > 7. I have this wifi stick: > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu= -linux-tpe-n150usb > Is the driver already packaged for guixsd? >=20 > * An unrelated story: > I had to install GuixSD twice, because I forgot to punch "(dependencies > mapped-devices)" into my file-system configuration. > So shepard would not boot up properly and after some time I got a guile > debug repl. > I see that this is my own fault, for not reading the docs properly. > I hope the new ncurses installer will help to prevent such mistakes. >=20 > * Not a problem: Touchpad works different > My first observation was that the touchpad was not working correctly. > The touchpad only works for mouse movement. > Clicking by tapping any point on the pad does not work. > Scrolling by moving down/up the right edge does not work. >=20 > I use the hardware buttons below it for clicking, but I wonder, aren't > there some laptops without those? > Later I found out that scrolling works with two fingers and this whole > setup is actually much better, since I do way less misclicks that way! >=20 > * xf86-input-synaptics? > Because I previously tried nixos I directly installed > xf86-input-synaptics with my installation. I never tried to use my > system without it. If it is required it should be mentioned in the docs. >=20 > Have a nice day, and happy hacking on GuixSD! >=20 >=20 --=20 ng0 OpenPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 --6sqbrdo34zbcndhq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEqIyK3RKYKNfqwC5S4i+bv+40hYgFAlkzPt4ACgkQ4i+bv+40 hYjjUQ//TLqUEbZJQnWIl/X1ggYrfeq1ecuGX4Tv+JmrhK0ZhIVYpvZmqxd9K7W8 PaBLVT8rnU41atmQUvOR7glDUL6WXKqIiZ9wS4nC1ZxUAgsGXPysezSkyqvR90Cl PPU8aHZx4c5NPutdH/noyCZaNDSFiq3RSGfnHJWqb+PqD8p7+CxsKAmLfUK6GiG+ lmRo9F3fuN/31RsD2H7dTddpJQlMOkLvHJt3ix/QrcaVOqQZ4tThatBc5K9a9kCs GHDpakXDXrkkk9m8e4CCY7775XzE3XaEK8zrkcX3zzNdjE4YXgKDBoCYOZmOSByf rz7sqlSIV1qDUhsjIggxfF/IoWBbma9gE3/lklHd/d3no+PSkitGhXXbOFe+CRzB 3Pmwcji9LZMcLMLcoON6Q7/9+fgH7fA5JLUL63t+zZElGQVGiS+HjbNE3u3EK6OT CVdr7sOn+cZwi82UxC30Q/7IQWS79QJMNHA1No7efUJ4KLLJzXvsCuKafpjTN3ry sU9TPEjWGXVF8GbMBIGv/rvw1f04yxLUEvcyVi7Y6Es5PSSgcd/LOkkvpzYN7L0O 6kt2M+/vzV0PWEjAcOfUIJDtgoKZNf9RtF1J0dTUsfeqpf14E9THjrMyviZJNHTu KCDxvvx3zJ8X1pipY/IMPp2Md0/aMYCg3o/wV77eB86bifuEm1M= =Cxs6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6sqbrdo34zbcndhq--