"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 02:40:30PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Please tell me what you think!
>>
>
> It is a good text. However, I find it more tragic that Xfce and MATE
> do not work than that these commands are missing until installed, but
> it depends on the audience I guess.
Yeah, but note that the Xfce failure is due to this bug (confirmed by
running ‘guix system vm desktop.tmpl’ with the attached patch.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
index 3931bad60d..ff6e4e37dd 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
@@ -45,18 +45,14 @@
(users (cons (user-account
(name "bob")
(comment "Alice's brother")
+ (password (crypt "foo" "$6$abc"))
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
- (packages (append (list
- ;; for HTTPS access
- nss-certs
- ;; for user mounts
- gvfs)
- %base-packages))
+ (packages '())
;; Add GNOME and Xfce---we can choose at the log-in screen
;; by clicking the gear. Use the "desktop" services, which
