From: Weldon Goree <weldon@librem.one>
To: porto@airmail.cc
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: WindowMaker
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 16:19:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190907161947.53a8c354@nixie.trit.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb98b6aeebc8509ad6b5b11a08832c79@airmail.cc>
On Sat, 07 Sep 2019 10:09:13 +0000
porto@airmail.cc wrote:
> I can manage to install
> the minimal Guix System but am unable to get Xorg, a login manager or
> windowmaker running.
>
With the caveat that I have never been able to make the graphical
install mode work, if you follow the shell-based install instructions
there is a point where you copy a file from /etc/configuration
to /mnt/etc/config.scm. There are a couple of examples
in /etc/configuration that you can choose; of interest to you would
probably be /etc/configuration/lightweight-desktop.scm.
The "big" part of this file will be an (operating-system ... ) form.
One of its components will be a (packages ... ) form, which will be
something like this:
(packages (append (list
;; window managers
ratpoison i3-wm i3status dmenu
;; for HTTPS access
nss-certs)
%base-packages))
Replace ratpoison and i3 with windowmaker, so:
(packages (append (list
;; window managers
windowmaker dmenu
;; for HTTPS access
nss-certs)
%base-packages))
(I find dmenu useful in Windowmaker so I kept it in.)
You will also need to edit a line early in the file,
(use-package-modules bootloaders certs ratpoison suckless wm)
to
(use-package-modules bootloaders certs suckless gnustep)
Those two edits to the lightweight-desktop.scm file will give you an X
Server and GDM3 login manager with the Windowmaker desktop
environment. (In other news, I'm working on packaging wdm and several
more dockapps.)
Best of luck,
Weldon
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