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From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
To: Disseminate Dissent <disseminatedissent@protonmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help with Xmonad setup and login from tty
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:22:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fssiwbmq.fsf@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gGd_UfivStB5BgTiuqoYjoq_ZBVo6gFcBQMfbI9D_QI2EY8-lynPhO-1p9bfahAamPxjMlgS53B42gjAacHIjZVXZ9InYpuK9WCUef5APxM=@protonmail.com>

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:

--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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-30 19:34 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 [this message]
2021-10-30 19:35   ` Mekeor Melire
2021-10-31 16:23     ` Mekeor Melire

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