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From: Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@h-brs.de>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with Guix install with openbox
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:30:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8FF4276B-119E-49EA-92D2-4C6F140F7959@h-brs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4387F11-3E47-4176-9C97-5E8BFF5B5348@lepiller.eu>

That was it actually. No program was installed - at least not for my user. A simple Guix install xterm/emacs/… solved the issue.

Thanks,
Alex

> On 22. Jul 2019, at 16:57, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> 
> Le 22 juillet 2019 15:15:08 GMT+02:00, Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@h-brs.de> a écrit :
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> As a former Guile programmer I like the idea to configure my system
>> using guile.
>> I installed Guix in a vm (VmwareFusion I have to admit) and everything
>> worked fine. 
>> I used the graphical installer and chose Openbox as a
>> Windowmanager-Option.
>> Unfortunately after Installation the desktop is empty and right-click
>> menu contains only dead links.
>> I also tride installing lxde afterwards with no options effect. 
>> Any hint what I can do to solve the issue?
>> Thanks! 
>> 
>> 	Alex
> 
> If you log in as a user in a tty, you should be able to install xterm with guix. Thcn, from openbox, you should be able to use xterm from the menu and configure it to your liking.
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-22 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-22 13:15 Problem with Guix install with openbox Alexander Asteroth
2019-07-22 14:03 ` Timothy Sample
2019-07-22 15:27   ` Alexander Asteroth
2019-07-22 21:26     ` Timothy Sample
2019-07-22 14:57 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-07-22 16:30   ` Alexander Asteroth [this message]

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