Re: spacemacs doesn't have the correct PATH when I change HOME

2019-09-24 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 04:44:12PM -0600, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > I need spacemacs for a class, but I want to keep my emacs settings, so I > setup a script as described in the FAQ to separate emacs from spacemacs. The > script sets HOME to $HOME/spacemacs and calls emacs. It appears that guix > reca

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-17 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:03:20AM -0700, John Soo wrote: >Sorry this is so confusing. Let me know if I’m missed something since >I’ve been half-following this thread. I think what you may want to do >is use the sudoers-file field when specifying your operating system >rather than u

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-17 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 07:34:46AM -0700, Quiliro's lists wrote: > El 2019-06-17 02:17, Andreas Enge escribió: > > maybe my reply is off-topic and does not solve your problem, but to just > > give sudoer capabilities to a user, it is enough to add them to the "wheel" > > group in the system declara

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-17 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:53:46AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Try > > VISUAL=/path/tp/my/editor visudo > > See the man-page for details Nope, same error: $ VISUAL=~/.guix-profile/bin/vim visudo -f ~/etc/guix/config.scm visudo: no editor found (editor path = /usr/bin/vi) It appears /usr/bin/v

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 04:08:06PM -0700, Quiliro's lists wrote: > El 2019-06-16 09:30, Jeff Bauer escribió: > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 07:27:57PM -0700, Quiliro's lists wrote: > >> Regarding the EDITOR variable, if Guix is the installer of the needed > >>

i3lock: problem and solution

2019-06-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
Thanks to support on #guix irc, I was able to get i3lock working. After installing the package, i3lock would not accept my login password. It was suggested that I add to my config.scm: (screen-locker-service i3lock "i3lock") However, I still wasn't able to unlock my screen. Next suggestion was

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 07:27:57PM -0700, Quiliro's lists wrote: > Regarding the EDITOR variable, if Guix is the installer of the needed > editor it is the only situation when this regards to Guix. > > Would you please clarify your issue? Issue clarified up-thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/h

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 07:27:57PM -0700, Quiliro's lists wrote: > Regarding the EDITOR variable, if Guix is the installer of the needed > editor it is the only situation when this regards to Guix. > > Would you please clarify your issue? Issue clarified up-thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/h

i3lock: problem and solution

2019-06-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
Thanks to support on #guix irc, I was able to get i3lock working. After installing the package, i3lock would not accept my login password. It was suggested that I add to my config.scm: (screen-locker-service i3lock "i3lock") However, I still wasn't able to unlock my screen. Next suggestion was

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-14 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > (operating-system >… >(sudoers-file > (local-file "sudoers")) ; relative to this file >…) Thanks. And as a note to myself to RTFM: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configurat

editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-14 Thread Jeff Bauer
I've been trying unsuccessfully to make changes to /etc/sudoers. I used visudo by creating a symlink to /usr/bin/vi (because visudo ignores EDITOR), but the changes aren't permanent. What am I missing? -Jeff

emacs play-sound-file: No usable sound device driver found

2019-06-10 Thread Jeff Bauer
I've installed emacs 26.2 from the guix package onto a foreign debian distro. Mostly everything appears to work fine, but play-sound-file causes: "No usable sound device driver found" I've installed alsa-lib and aplay -l produces: card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Ana

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
I've put the following in my .profile: GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" if [ -d $GUIX_PROFILE ] || [ -h $GUIX_PROFILE ] ; then export GUIX_PROFILE export GUIX_LOCPATH=$GUIX_PROFILE/lib/locale/ source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile fi I have it set up this way so my .profile is portable b