From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: UNable to change date/time and TZ on GNOME/GuixSD Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:47:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87h99hc5dy.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkcct-0004w3-12 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:47:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkccm-0000Ig-Ur for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:47:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Ravishankar S.'s message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:24:58 +0530") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Ravishankar S Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hello, Ravishankar S skribis: > After watching the DaveT and ChrisW video on youtube, I was genuinely > impressed with the goals and design of the project and I wanted to take it > for a spin. Pleasantly surprised at how easy the install was. within an > hour I had a GNOME desktop running and was poking around the packages > available. I have a few issues that I need help with: > > Fresh install of guix sd .11 and git pull today. GNOME 3.20 runs well with > no crashes. Susend/Resume works, NW is stable Good to hear, thanks for the report! > In GNOME control center, I cannot change the date/time or the TZ and it > defaults to London GMT. It complains of missing policykit files but i can= 't > find the correct package. i have polkit packages installed Could you paste the error message? Most likely we=E2=80=99re indeed missing some polkit policy file here. However, the default TZ should be that of the system, i.e., that specified in the =E2=80=98timezone=E2=80=99 field of your =E2=80=98operatin= g-system=E2=80=99 declaration. Isn=E2=80=99t it the case? > Is it not possible to get the full vanilla GNOME 3.20 env on Guix SD due = to > no systemd? - I am genuinely curious and not flamebaiting The important part of systemd that GNOME relies on is logind, which was extracted as a separate component called =E2=80=9Celogind=E2=80=9D: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3D8491 So it seems there=E2=80=99s no showstopper at this point. > Is there a top level metapackage that i can install so that the full GNOME > 3.20 env with all the tools and utils can be pulled in There=E2=80=99s a =E2=80=98gnome=E2=80=99 metapackage, but it pulls in load= s of stuff. You probably don=E2=80=99t want to install it in ~/.guix-profile. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.