From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gno Subject: Re: .xinitrc ignored; awesome-wm Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:34:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20160821013423.13a26e62@gmail.com> References: <20160819213320.32905286@gmail.com> <87y43rusaf.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbDuT-0002Rh-OR for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:34:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbDuO-0003eE-Ce for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:34:32 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x243.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::243]:34988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbDuO-0003e4-5T for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:34:28 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x243.google.com with SMTP id i5so7920565wmg.2 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:34:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y43rusaf.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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: ng0 Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:58:00 +0000 ng0 wrote: > Hi, > > gno writes: > > > Hello guys ! > > > > First off, guix is great, even if it takes quite some time to get > > used to :) > > > > I made it work in no time and am now running guixsd (lightweight > > desktop setup with awesome). I'd like to keep at it but I do need to > > solve 2 problems first. I was asking around in #guix and was > > referred to this email add. > > > > Is there any way to make it respect .xinitrc, preferrably when slim > > starts ? I use a diy keyboard with a custom xmodmap that needs to be > > loaded. I tried all kinds of things with ~ and > > root; .xinitrc, .xserverrc, .xsession (crashed w/o logs). > > > > Also, unfortunately awesome-wm is quite dated. I'd like to update > > it so that it is compatible with my config. There have been quite a > > few API changes. Is it feasible to try and package a newer version > > myself or did you not do it already because of missing dependencies > > or other complications ? > > I ran into complications when I first started to work on awesome-wm, > then someone else packaged the older version of awesome-wm which just > worked. I will search my patch, rebase, comment it, send to the > guix-devel list (guix-devel@gnu.org) and you can bring it to a working > state if you like to? Additional help you can get from other > contributors if this is your first patch. That would be much appreciated ! So far it's been pretty catastrophic. I managed to compile lua with dynamic load support since that was the first problem I ran into with lua-lgi. Now lua-lgi sucessfully builds and loads; but its tests throw a segfault. Awesome doesnt want to build the man pages and is not exactly verbose as to why that is. Here's my progress: https://github.com/doncatnip/guix-packages Any help welcome :) cheers > > > > Thanks for all the hard work ! :) > > - muck > > >