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From: Andreas Reuleaux <rx@a-rx.info>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: help-guix Users <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: simple config with just startx not working for me
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:17:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilzypev3.fsf@softland> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnoetpbo.fsf@yucca> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:17:47 -0700")

OK, many thanks.

fine with sway - I wanted to switch to wayland some time anyway.

And I will give eglogind a try.

I did see another thread - after asking
my question on this list - by the way:


  https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg11407.html

  and the consensus seems to be that this has never been easy:

  https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg11418.html

  "It has never been simple on Guix System to use xinit / startx,..."


And I would really appreciate if some more care would be given to this:
as much as I like the core ideas of guix, things like these I find
discouraging / off putting - sorry to say this.


-A


Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2021-08-21, Andreas Reuleaux wrote:
>> I am fairly new to guix, thus bear with me please.
>
> Welcome!
>
>> I want to start X on my system with startx - i.e. log into my system
>> just from a tty, and then start X by hand (and i3 will be my window
>> manager, I just have an .xsession file in my $HOME, where I start i3)
>> - I do not want any desktop-services / desktop-manager / graphical login manager
>> (this may seem old school - but has worked fine for me for years
>> under debian). 
>>
>> I cannot really get this working though: I have xinit installed (with
>> startx therein, cf. my config below), but when I
>>
>>   startx
>>
>> on the command line, I get this:
>>
>>     xauth:  file /home/rx/.serverauth.1957 does not exist
> ...
>
> I struggled with this for a bit and eventually gave up.  In theory, if
> you make enough executables setuid, you might be able to get startx to
> work properly (other distros such as Debian make startx work by
> installing various executables setuid).
>
> In the end, I switched using sway, which is very similar to i3 but uses
> wayland natively instead of X11 (though there are still X11
> compatibility layers). The main thing is you need to have elogind
> configured in your system, and then you can login and run "exec sway"
> and it "just works".
>
> So, not exactly a direct answer to your question, but maybe it is a
> workable alternative for you.
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-21 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-21 21:15 simple config with just startx not working for me Andreas Reuleaux
2021-08-21 22:17 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-08-21 23:17   ` Andreas Reuleaux [this message]
2021-08-22  5:55     ` 宋文武
2021-08-22 12:57       ` Andreas Reuleaux
2021-08-22 14:01       ` Andreas Reuleaux
2021-08-24  8:14 ` Boris A. Dekshteyn
2021-08-24  8:33   ` Boris A. Dekshteyn
2021-08-24 11:27     ` Andreas Reuleaux

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