Re: I installed GuixSD on my laptop

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 10:53:24PM +0200, nee wrote:
> 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.
>
> […]
> 
> 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.
>

I tried to package Evolution once, but I had problems: It only worked
when it was the last installed package. I believe it’s not the only
GNOME package sufering from this issue. I still want to try again when
I have some more time to learn Guix…

That said, I switched to Mutt and am happy with it. Seems much better
than Enigmail because it makes clear which parts of a message are
signed. I’m not sure though if Thunderbird Enigmail can spit out this
information somehow too.

> 
> * 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.
> 

Probably this should be verified by Guix before GuixSD gets installed.

> * 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.
> 
> 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!
> 
> * 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.
>

No. Libinput should be used. Not Synaptics. Synaptics is
obsolete. Libinput does not get used on my GuixSD GNOME either though;
I believe it still uses Synaptics. My GNOME also does not use Wayland
yet, but Xfce does not even support Wayland AFAIK…

Regards,
Florian