Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-23 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Ludovic, Thanks for taking the time to clarify all this! … but I have to confess that I had to read it several times! ^_^' Le 10/22, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour skribis: > > Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : > >> Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > >> >(service

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour skribis: > Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : >> Tanguy Le Carrour writes: >> >(service slim-service-type >> > (slim-configuration >> > (xorg-configuration >> >(xorg-configuration >> > (

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-21 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > >(service slim-service-type > > (slim-configuration > > (xorg-configuration > >(xorg-configuration > > (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)) > > > > > > I

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Diego Nicola Barbato
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Hi Diego! > > > Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : >> You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like >> this: >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> (service slim-service-type >> (slim-configurati

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Diego! Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : > You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like > this: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (service slim-service-type > (slim-configuration > (xorg-configuration >

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Diego Nicola Barbato
Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour writes: [...] > I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, > slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is. You can set the keyboard layout directly in the slim-configuration like this: --8<---cut here---

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Alex! Le 10/18, Alex Griffin a écrit : > For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. > As far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager > that doesn't run X as root. That's a very good point. Thanks for raising it to my attention! The thin

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Joshua! Le 10/18, Joshua Branson a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > > I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM > > instead. > This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :) Yeah, I thought so, but then I figured out that this could be solve

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Griffin
For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. As far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager that doesn't run X as root. -- Alex Griffin On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > Hi Guix! > > I'm not a Gnome user and I wo

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Hi Guix! > > I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM > instead. This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :) > > I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, > slim-service-type is not supposed to be exte

SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-18 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Guix! I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM instead. I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is. I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and `(co