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From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 22:55:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2efnbhr.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmzsawjs.fsf@disroot.org> (Bone Baboon's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:58:47 -0400")

Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org> writes:

> Thanks for your reply.
>
> jbranso@dismail.de writes:
>
>> March 21, 2021 6:31 PM, "Bone Baboon" <bone.baboon@disroot.org> wrote:
>>
> I am trying to manually run `xinit` so that I can use Emacs X Window
> Manager (EXWM).  I have EXWM configured in my Emacs configuration file.
> I have a small number of important graphical applications I want to run
> in EXWM (web browser, Jami, qTox, ...).

Ok.  Very cool!

>
>> If all you are wanting is to use Emacs, you could always just launch Emace
>> from the virtual console, and not have mouse support.
>
> If I run `emacs` from a virtual terminal in the *Messages* buffer it
> says "[EXWM] Not running under X environment".

Do any of the officially supported guix wm's or desktop environments
work for you?

>
> I am currently working without `xorg` in virtual terminals or in Emacs
> with `emacsclient --tty`.  I am really appreciating `eww` as a browser
> that is in Emacs.

eww is certainly interesting.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-21 22:05 Start Xorg server using xinit manually Bone Baboon
2021-03-21 23:05 ` jbranso
2021-03-21 23:21   ` nylxs
2021-03-22 17:14     ` Leo Famulari
     [not found]       ` <a03873e7-122d-fa50-21df-295112a5ede5@optonline.net>
2021-03-23  2:39         ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-21 23:58   ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-22  2:55     ` Joshua Branson [this message]
2021-03-22 16:49       ` Gary Johnson
2021-03-22 18:34         ` Vincent Legoll
2021-03-22 18:42           ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23  3:22         ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-23  8:02           ` Sergiu Ivanov
2021-03-24 21:42             ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-23 18:37           ` Gary Johnson
2021-03-26 20:41             ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-28 17:30               ` Gary Johnson
2021-03-24 21:48       ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-22  3:29 ` Vladimir Sedach
2021-03-24 22:18   ` Bone Baboon
2021-03-25 15:20     ` Gary Johnson

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