From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
To: Disseminate Dissent <disseminatedissent@protonmail.com>,
help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:35:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl36wbi0.fsf@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fssiwbmq.fsf@posteo.de>
Oops, I gotta correct a detail!
2021-10-30 / 19:22 / mekeor@posteo.de:
> Hello :)
>
> I also start XMonad from the terminal/TTY. I use the following command
> which I found in some Guix mailing list:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> xinit -- ~/.guix-profile/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 \
> -keeptty \
> -configdir ~/.guix-profile/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
> -modulepath ~/.guix-profile/lib/xorg/modules
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> I then have a ~/.xsession file which in particular contains this line:
It's not a ~/.xsession file which I use, but a ~/.xinitrc file!
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> exec ~/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> I'm not sure but I think these were the packages which I installed as
> user in order to make XMonad work/compile:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> gcc-toolchain
> ghc
> ghc-xmonad-contrib
> glibc
> ld-wrapper
> libxinerama
> xf86-input-libinput
> xf86-video-fbdev
> xf86-video-intel
> xinit
> xorg-server
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> I also have a ~/.xmonad/build script with the following content:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #!/bin/sh
> ghc -dynamic "$HOME/.xmonad/Main.hs" -i"$HOME/.xmonad" -o "$1"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Goodbye
> Mekeor
>
>
>
> 2021-10-27 / 22:02 / help-guix@gnu.org:
>
>> To whom this may concern,
>>
>> Hello, I have a relatively good understand of GNU/Linux. Just moved from Arch after using it for several months, looking for more GNU. However, I'm having some serious difficult with two things that I imagine are simple.
>>
>> During installation I opted out of setting up the default DEs and display
>> managers since I prefer to login through TTY. I'm also using xmonad but am
>> having trouble with getting it up and running. When invoking `startx` the screen
>> goes black and then I'm unable to back out or even switch to another TTY. How
>> would I go back solving these two issues?
>>
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>> All the best
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-30 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 22:02 Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty Disseminate Dissent via
2021-10-28 18:10 ` jbranso
2021-10-30 19:22 ` Mekeor Melire
2021-10-30 19:35 ` Mekeor Melire [this message]
2021-10-31 16:23 ` Mekeor Melire
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