From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-Guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing the Xfce DE installs Unity
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:37:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f4nse5l.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADS3Lq4Dkoa6WOJFababcC0X2rtpM_y4b3Y1Lwb=A4EdhLUYog@mail.gmail.com>
Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Leo,
>
> On 12 February 2017 at 03:49, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:56:06PM +0100, Niall Dooley wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> I installed the Xfce (meta) package and on restarting the available DE
>>> on the login screen are the default (Trisquel) Gnome and Unity.
>>> Selecting Unity does indeed present a Unity session and not the
>>> expected Xfce. Any ideas?
>>
>> Can you share the operating system configuration file you're using for
>> this system, so that I can try to reproduce the issue?
>
> Excuse my ignorance - I don't believe I have one. I'm using Guix on a
> *foreign *distro. Do I need to create one to use a DE installed via Guix?
> Thanks for your patience.
As far as I know we haven’t packaged Unity for Guix at all. Unity is
unrelated to Xfce. I’m not sure you can actually use Xfce from Guix on
a foreign distro. On GuixSD using a desktop environment requires that
certain services are running.
--
Ricardo
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-18 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-09 21:56 Installing the Xfce DE installs Unity Niall Dooley
2017-02-12 2:49 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-18 11:46 ` Niall Dooley
2017-02-18 15:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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