Shepherd environment question

2025-01-05 Thread Fredrik Salomonsson
Hi Guix, After reading the Shepherd 1.0.0 blog post [0], it got me thinking that with the log rotation etc it would be nice to let shepherd handle sway and the programs it launches. As right now I got a simple line in my ~/.bash_profile that if logging in to tty1 exec sway. And all the output fr

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
On 5/01/25 23:59, Luis Felipe wrote: On 5/01/25 22:26, Roman Riabenko wrote: Hello Gottfried On Sun,  5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: I also installed the Gnome characters app but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
On 5/01/25 22:26, Roman Riabenko wrote: Hello Gottfried On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: I also installed the Gnome characters app but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME characters in the current Guix System

Re: Compiling aarch64-linux packages on x86_64-linux

2025-01-05 Thread Ian Eure
Hi all, Not sure why this was needed, but running: $ sudo herd restart file-system-/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ...solved the problem for me. I assume a reboot would have as well. I'm not sure why this was needed -- seems like it shouldn't be -- but at least builds are building for me now.

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello Gottfried On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: > I also installed the Gnome characters app > but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME characters in the current Guix System. The Greek alphabet is listed as a sep

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread gfp
Hi Luis, thanks very much. You saved me a lot of time. I had the ancient greek spelling checker in Libreoffice installed already, but it didn´t work. Now after your help in saying to install ibus, which I did, it helped. I can use it now. I also installed the Gnome characters app but it doesn

Compiling aarch64-linux packages on x86_64-linux

2025-01-05 Thread Ian Eure
In "(guix) Additional Build Options", documenting the --system option, the Guix manual says: Similarly, when transparent emulation with QEMU and ‘binfmt_misc’ is enabled (*note ‘qemu-binfmt-service-type’: Virtualization Services.), you can build for any system for which a QEMU ‘

Issue with local-file

2025-01-05 Thread jankremser via
Hello everyone. I am trying yo reference some local files in my guix configuartion, but I am running into some isses. Bellow I will past my configuration and the error I see when I run the build command. The code: ;;; base.scm --- Base Guix config inheriting from the official installer ;;; ;;; De

Re: Issue with local-file

2025-01-05 Thread jankremser via
Apologies, the error before was a different one. Here is my updated configuration with the errors: =+ ;;; base.scm --- Base Guix config inheriting from the official installer ;;; ;;; Defines a module named (machines base). It exports the variable ;;; `base-os`, which is

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Gottfried, On 5/01/25 13:15, gfp wrote: Hi Guix, Guix System, installing MATE desktop does not include mate-character map. I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled. Guix doesn´t include this application. Does somebody know why? I don't know, but I would use it for ancient greek

IPP driverless printing

2025-01-05 Thread Roman Riabenko via
Hello I am trying to print a test page in GNOME Settings on an IPP printer. The printer automatically shows up in the printers panel. But clicking the test print button does nothing. This works on nother distribution. Do I need to configure something for driverless printing? Printing was selected

MATE desktop application "character map"

2025-01-05 Thread gfp
Hi Guix, Guix System, installing MATE desktop does not include mate-character map. I used this earlier when I have ubuntu intalled. Guix doesn´t include this application. Does somebody know why? I would use it for ancient greek letters to pick some letters which I can´t create. thanks Gottf

Re: Different/incorrect font chosen -- fontconfig not deterministic?

2025-01-05 Thread Marek Paśnikowski
Good morning Simen. I am also offended by the incomprehensible documentation of Fontconfig on their own website. For the goal learning more about this crucial library, I would like to help explore your problem. From your message, I have clearly understood that your Fontconfig configuration ha

Different/incorrect font chosen -- fontconfig not deterministic?

2025-01-05 Thread Simen Endsjø
I’m having problems where the wrong/different font is chosen on one computer even though my setup should be the same. On my first system, Material Icons font is chosen, but on the second system, Symbols Nerd Font and GNU Unifont is chosen. I copied my old operating-system configuration and only