GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[oury.dustin]

Hello Guix users! I´m quite new to running Guix properly as I failed in 
the past to get the package manager up and running in Trisquel 8 and 
always wanted to try the OS properly, I managed to get it installed a 
few days ago and have a few nitpicks with it I´d like to share regarding 
the version 1.0.1.

1.) I was unable to get wireless access from my Libreboot Thinkpad T400 
working in the initial graphical install. It would not detect my 
wireless card, and when I tried to configure it it threw a big red 
screen and aborted out. Connecting directly with a LAN cable solved this 
issue, and once I got the OS installed wireless was working fine with 
GNOME3.
2. I´ve been a user of Mozilla Thunderbird and Icedove for a while, so I 
was a little shocked to find that icedove didn´t exist in the repo. I 
would love to have it packaged or learn to package it!
3. The graphical installer gives you the option to set the keyboard 
layout, however when I finally booted into the OS a few keys need to be 
pressed twice (example: ~,´,¨,¨,^) and not long-pressing them gives 
accented characters. I´m not sure how to fix this at the moment.

Other than those niggles it´s a really impressive OS. Thank you Guix!

Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[Raghav Gururajan]

> 2. I´ve been a user of Mozilla Thunderbird and Icedove for a while, so I 
> was a little shocked to find that icedove didn´t exist in the repo. I 
> would love to have it packaged or learn to package it!

I am in need of icedove too :( I am trying to learn from this tutorial (http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/), but not able to find time. Please let me know if you had any success.

Thank you!

Regards,
RG.

Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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oury.dustin@posteo.net wrote:
> 3. The graphical installer gives you the option to set the 
> keyboard
> layout, however when I finally booted into the OS a few keys 
> need to
> be pressed twice (example: ~,´,¨,¨,^) and not long-pressing them 
> gives
> accented characters. I´m not sure how to fix this at the moment.

Which keyboard layout did you select?  Was there an option 
*without* ‘dead keys’?

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[Ludovic Courtès]

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> oury.dustin@posteo.net wrote:
>> 3. The graphical installer gives you the option to set the keyboard
>> layout, however when I finally booted into the OS a few keys need to
>> be pressed twice (example: ~,´,¨,¨,^) and not long-pressing them
>> gives
>> accented characters. I´m not sure how to fix this at the moment.
>
> Which keyboard layout did you select?  Was there an option *without*
> ‘dead keys’?

I’ve noticed that the variants “without dead keys” come first for French
and Spanish.  We should probably fix that, though I’m not sure exactly
how to choose “the most relevant” variant in a generic way.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[oury.dustin]

If I recall there isn't a setting without dead keys to select, at least 
I don't recall seeing it. No option to just just select a US English 
layout and continue. It only gave an option for US-alt international, 
and with dead keys. I installed the system and changed the line in my 
/etc/config.scm for keyboard layout to only say "us" but still the same 
problem.

For now most of my issues with it are fixed with changing my 
gnome-settings to US english for the layout.

On 26.05.2019 18:54, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> oury.dustin@posteo.net wrote:
>> 3. The graphical installer gives you the option to set the keyboard
>> layout, however when I finally booted into the OS a few keys need to
>> be pressed twice (example: ~,´,¨,¨,^) and not long-pressing them gives
>> accented characters. I´m not sure how to fix this at the moment.
> 
> Which keyboard layout did you select?  Was there an option *without*
> ‘dead keys’?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R

Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

[oury.dustin]

While that's good, I'm not good with this sort of stuff so far and I 
don't have the time right now to sit and read a tutorial. I think I'd 
just get confused anyway. Thank you for your help and I'm sure somebody 
will find it useful for getting an English version of Thunderbird or 
Icedove packaged for Guix

On 25.05.2019 23:56, Julien L. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw your message on the Guix mailing list.
> 
> I just want to let you know that I created a package for Mozilla
> Thunderbird. You can find it at this address:
> https://bitbucket.org/julien1001/guix-packages/src/default/julien1001/packages/thunderbird.scm
> 
> The package actually uses the binary version of Thunderbird, built by
> Mozilla.
> 
> In fact, two packages are available: one in version 52, the other one 
> in
> version 60. Both use the French version of the binary.
> 
> With a little bit of adaptation, you should be able to create a package
> for your preferred language.
> 
> Best regards,