Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread Ian Eure
Hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2025, at 10:26 PM, gfp wrote: > Hi, > thanks for explaining this. > > 1. > I understood that > EFI is on the top > it runs Grub > and Grub runs the init system shepherd. EFI is the modern replacement for the legacy BIOS. It's typically a proprietary firmware which is supplied

Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Hi, On 2025-01-08 11:26 PM, gfp wrote: Hi, thanks for explaining this. 1. I understood that EFI is on the top it runs Grub and Grub runs the init system shepherd. Instead of top I would say bottom. It's the closest thing to the hardware. EFI is written in your motherboard. 2. Guix has a G

Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread gfp
Hi, thanks for explaining this. 1. I understood that EFI is on the top it runs Grub and Grub runs the init system shepherd. 2. Guix has a Grub without proprietary software AFAIU and then remains the question about EFI. 3. Can we exclude that EFI is without proprietary software? Or has it only t

Extending home-gpg-agent-service-type from a service-type doesn't do anything?

2025-01-08 Thread Simen Endsjø
I'm probably doing something wrong, but I'm having problems using `home-gpg-agent-service-type' from a service. It works fine inside an `home-environment', but not within a service type. So this works fine: , | (home-environment | (services |(list | (service home-gpg-agent-service-ty

Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Hi, On 2025-01-08 9:50 PM, gfp wrote: Hi Felix, I bought a laptop of the company Tuxedo where I can disable IME. Don't they disable that by default? The options were really tricky. Difficult. Yes they are, but you can do it! I will check again, if they enabled it again. Hopefully not.

Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread gfp
Hi Felix, I bought a laptop of the company Tuxedo where I can disable IME. The options were really tricky. Difficult. I will check again, if they enabled it again. Hopefully not. I didn´t install any proprietary in the beginning. But I don´t know, and that´s why my question, if on my laptop is

Re: How to use exwm with tty login

2025-01-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi bp25, On Wed, Jan 08 2025, b...@riseup.net wrote: > How can I disable gdm as the login manager I modify the Guix services [1] but there is probably an easier way in the manual or in the cookbook. Please note I worked off of %base-services. After login, I run the custom program below, which

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 110, Issue 14

2025-01-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Jan 08 2025, Gottfried wrote: > I put my /.authinfo.gpg file in > /home/gfp/.authinfo.gpg Great! > I don´t know what you mean by $HOME try in a shell 'echo $HOME' > I have no "guix home" I know. It's different. In technology, everything is about splitting hairs. Your

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 110, Issue 14

2025-01-08 Thread Gottfried
Hi Felix, thanks for helping me. I put my /.authinfo.gpg file in /home/gfp/.authinfo.gpg my home folder I don´t know what you mean by $HOME I have no "guix home" Gottfried and not in: Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:48:25 -0800 From: Felix Lechner To: gfp Cc: Guix Help Subject: Re: Emacs Gnu

How to use exwm with tty login

2025-01-08 Thread bp25
Hello! I chose exwm as the windows manager when I installed Guix. How can I disable gdm as the login manager and use non-graphical login instead? If I do C-M-F6 (say), then after login I have to start emacs manually, and then starting exwm fails because "not running under X environment"... Any he

Re: Shepherd environment question

2025-01-08 Thread Fredrik Salomonsson
jbra...@dismail.de writes: > January 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM, "Fredrik Salomonsson" mailto:platt...@posteo.net?to=%22Fredrik%20Salomonsson%22%20%3Cplattfot%40posteo.net%3E > > wrote: > > > >> >> Hi Guix, >> >> After reading the Shepherd 1.0.0 blog post [0], it got me thinking that >> with the lo

Re: question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Jan 08 2025, gfp wrote: > I want to know briefly (for security reasons) what proprietary > packages/programmes are on my laptop installed or run. I am not sure there is a single way. I wouldn't install them in the beginning. > I unset IME (Intel Management Engine) I woul

question about proprietory packages

2025-01-08 Thread gfp
Hi, I want to know briefly (for security reasons) what proprietary packages/programmes are on my laptop installed or run. I unset IME (Intel Management Engine) So my bootloader ist /boot/efi and grub /boot/efi/Guix/grubx64.efi What is the difference of Grub, EFI, Shepherd, gnu-boot? I assum

Re: Emacs Gnus can´t find my gpg data

2025-01-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Guix, On Mon, Jan 06 2025, gfp wrote: > My password for getting emails is in my /.authinfo.gpg file in the > /home folder >From the Wiki, it looks like Gnus supports Authinfo. [1] (For non-NNTP tasks, I personally use Mu4e and Circe, which definitely do.) Did you put .authinfo.gpg into /home

Re: switching layout in tty

2025-01-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, Jan 07 2025, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > this is a bug with some software used by Guix, maybe the Linux kernel, After core-updates, I had USB-related problems on multiple pieces of equipment that went away when I unplugged all Bluetooth and wireless dongles. Maybe you can tr

Re: Choosing C++ library versions in Guix

2025-01-08 Thread Daniel Hatton
On 07/01/2025 18:14, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: Using something like this: ``` guix shell gcc-toolchain@11 -- pkg install ... ``` I hope that helps. Yep. I did guix shell gcc-toolchain@11 -- octave Then at the resulting Octave prompt pkg install "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/pro

Re: Shepherd environment question

2025-01-08 Thread jbranso
January 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM, "Fredrik Salomonsson" mailto:platt...@posteo.net?to=%22Fredrik%20Salomonsson%22%20%3Cplattfot%40posteo.net%3E > wrote: > > 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 shep

Re: security key for login

2025-01-08 Thread bp25
Thanks very much for your message. I can't understand from your sentences whether you think something similar to your setup would work for waking up from suspend? > My setup is sway and swaylock for the screensaver. Also, I don't use Wayland at the moment :S