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* bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box
@ 2022-12-02 17:50 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
  2022-12-05 16:40 ` Maxim Cournoyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2022-12-02 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 59783

Once there was a commit

commit 3ad3c55842dd34adc4b1a1b65ba0abfbdf5b92ee
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 17 00:27:04 2019 +0200

    installer: Desktop environment page now includes window managers.
    
    * gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[snippet]: Change to be a
    list of sexps and add default value.
    [packages]: New field.
    (%system-services): Adjust 'snippet' fields to be lists of sexps.
    Add Openbox, awesome, i3, and ratpoison.
    (system-services->configuration): Adjust 'snippet' handling.  Honor
    'packages' field.

Maybe openbox and ratpoison services should not be suggested by the
Guix System graphical installer, because they apparently are unusable
without further config files.  Note that sway is not among the
suggested desktop environments either.  WDYT?

Regards,
Florian




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* bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box
  2022-12-02 17:50 bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
@ 2022-12-05 16:40 ` Maxim Cournoyer
  2022-12-05 22:54   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2022-12-05 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz); +Cc: 59783

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> Once there was a commit
>
> commit 3ad3c55842dd34adc4b1a1b65ba0abfbdf5b92ee
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Wed Apr 17 00:27:04 2019 +0200
>
>     installer: Desktop environment page now includes window managers.
>     
>     * gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[snippet]: Change to be a
>     list of sexps and add default value.
>     [packages]: New field.
>     (%system-services): Adjust 'snippet' fields to be lists of sexps.
>     Add Openbox, awesome, i3, and ratpoison.
>     (system-services->configuration): Adjust 'snippet' handling.  Honor
>     'packages' field.
>
> Maybe openbox and ratpoison services should not be suggested by the
> Guix System graphical installer, because they apparently are unusable
> without further config files.  Note that sway is not among the
> suggested desktop environments either.  WDYT?

What do you mean unusable? I use ratpoison, and a configuration file is
*not* required.  You may be stumped by the empty screen with the mouse
being utterly useless.  That's the whole point of ratpoison ;-).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim




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* bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box
  2022-12-05 16:40 ` Maxim Cournoyer
@ 2022-12-05 22:54   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2022-12-05 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maxim Cournoyer; +Cc: 59783-done

Oops yes.  Ratpoison even displays instructions to get help in a corner.
C-t C-c works fine (after running `guix build xterm`).  Openbox works
fine when right clicking the black screen.

No bug here.  Closing.

Regards,
Florian




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