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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fluxbox window manager
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:58:43 -0500
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:31:50AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:22:41 -0500
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > What are you trying to achieve here? 
> 
> I'm trying to get fluxbox to show up in the session manager. Therefore, I added fluxbox to the operating-system packages. If I guix system reconfigure outside the pre-inst-env, it will complain about unknown fluxbox. If I guix system reconfigure inside, I am not root.

You can do `$path-to-src/pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ...`. That
should work.

`guix environment guix` is only required when you are building Guix
itself from source.

> 
> Regards,
>    Danny