Chris Marusich writes: > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Hi Roel, >>> >>>> With the following patch to the Xorg configuration file, I have a >>>> tear-free GuixSD experience. I wonder if this is upstreameable in some >>>> way. This patch is probably too broad in effect. Can I change it so >>>> that only the graphics card I have will be affected by this patch? >>> >>> I’m not sure about this, but you can apply it only to your system by >>> changing the slim-service’s “startx” value like this: >>> >>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >>> (modify-services %desktop-services >>> (slim-service-type >>> config => (slim-configuration >>> (inherit config) >>> (startx (xorg-start-command >>> #:configuration-file >>> (xorg-configuration-file >>> #:extra-config >>> (list your-fix))))))) >>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >>> >>> But I suppose what you want is to apply it unconditionally in Guix and >>> have the X server ignore it for all but this one graphics card, right? >> >> No, not necessarily. I could no longer do 'guix pull && guix system >> reconfigure ...', which I attempted to solve by upstreaming this patch. > > Why wouldn't you be able to do a 'guix pull && guix system reconfigure'?
Because that would build a system generation which doesn't contain the patched Xorg config. Ricardo's snippet solved that. > >> I wonder if anyone else is having the same problem on this hardware.. > > Yes, I have this problem. I use a Lenovo X200. Like Mark, graphical > Emacs doesn't display characters right, and it's difficult to tell what > the buffer actually contains, sometimes. I've reconfigured my system to > use the extra Xorg config you've provided in this thread, and I'll let > you know in a week or two if it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks. Kind regards, Roel Janssen
