Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2019-10-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
George Clemmer writes: > I provided an example of how I use emacs and the _non-default behavior_ > of non-default profiles that I find particularly powerful in Guix. Of > course it's not the only way to go, but I thought it might be of > interest for your article. Indeed, good point! >> The pro

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2019-10-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > The `emacs' you run is the last one in your PATH. This is defined by > the load-order of the profiles, as for any program. This is not > Emacs-specific. Rectification: "the first one in your PATH". -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Descript

Re: Problem logging in using GDM

2019-10-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Hi Guix! > > As previously discussed [1], I sometimes have problems logging in using GDM. > And today is one of those days! :-( > > [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00434.html > > Thanks to Joshua and Diego, I now have a SLiM alternative th

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2019-10-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hi! > > I'm resurrecting this since I got bitten by this today. > > I'm currently writing a blog article on profiles and manifest, and I > realized that Emacs is the only program so far that does not behave > consistently with the rest of Guix. > > When I so

QEMU USB pass-through

2019-10-19 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, I recently tried to pass through a USB flash drive to a VM using QEMU, and I couldn't get it working. Has anyone successfully used QEMU's USB pass-through feature on a Guix system? When I plug a USB flash drive into my Guix system using GNOME, GNOME automatically mounts it for me. So I unmo

Re: Problem logging in using GDM

2019-10-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:31:32PM +0200, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > So, symptoms are: when I try to log in using GDM, it goes black and… > *bang* goes back to the login screen! Does /var/log/gdm/greeter.log tell anything? Regards, Florian

Re: QEMU USB pass-through

2019-10-19 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Hi Chris, I use the following command to get a USB device on VM: --8<---cut here---start->8--- qemu-system-x86_64 \ -daemonize \ -m 4096 \ -smp 2 \ -enable-kvm \ -hda /srv/virt/vm.qcow2 \ -smb /srv/share \ -M q35 \ -usb \

Re: Problem logging in using GDM

2019-10-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Tanguy > So, symptoms are: when I try to log in using GDM, it goes black and… > *bang* goes back to the login screen! […] > Unfortunately, removing the gdm/gnome temp files [2] didn't solve the > problem! > > [2]: sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gdm > rm -rf .cache/gnome-* > rm -rf .local/shar

Re: Problem logging in using GDM

2019-10-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:58:56PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Other problems may include a failure to start some user services via > dbus. > > This is tricky and frustrating. I hope someone here will come up with > an idea to make this more robust. > When I was trying to debug a different G