Re: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from socket

2021-03-22 Thread Fulbert
Le Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:48:25AM +0100, Fulbert a écrit : > For the past few days… maybe a couple of weeks (not sure when > it started exactly), I have had frequent errors with > substitutions. Those errors are not [always] reproducible as > another [or more] installation attempt succeed on the s

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread nylxs
On 3/21/21 7:05 PM, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > May I ask why you are trying to manually run xinit? Becuse he wants to. This is always a loaded question making an excuse to avoid answering it. It should just work from the command line, no excuses, because the user wants it that way.

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Bone Baboon
Thanks for your reply. jbra...@dismail.de writes: > March 21, 2021 6:31 PM, "Bone Baboon" wrote: > > May I ask why you are trying to manually run xinit? Is your favorite wm > or desktop environment not packaged as a service in Guix? Ahh, I see you > are just trying to start Emacs. Very awes

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Gary Johnson
> March 21, 2021 6:31 PM, "Bone Baboon" wrote: > > I am trying to manually run `xinit` so that I can use Emacs X Window > Manager (EXWM). I have EXWM configured in my Emacs configuration file. > I have a small number of important graphical applications I want to > run in EXWM (web browser, Jami, q

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 07:21:06PM -0400, nylxs wrote: > Becuse he wants to. > This is always a loaded question making an excuse to avoid answering > it. It should just work from the command line, no excuses, because the > user wants it that way. It has never been simple on Guix System to use x

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello Gary, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:49 PM Gary Johnson wrote: > [...] Nicely described stuff I think this would make a nice additional recipe for the cookbook. WOGT ? (What Other Guixers Think) -- Vincent Legoll

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 07:34:25PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello Gary, > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:49 PM Gary Johnson wrote: > > [...] Nicely described stuff > > I think this would make a nice additional recipe for the cookbook. > > WOGT ? (What Other Guixers Think) Absolutely! People

Re: cannot "guix pull"

2021-03-22 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Thus quoth Leo Famulari on Mon Mar 22 2021 at 01:11 (+0100): > I'm happy to help, but unfortunately, the paste that included the error > messages is no longer online: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-03/msg00184.html > > This illustrates why it is important to include all rel

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:11:57PM -0400, nylxs wrote: > or it could be not broken, Thanks for the hint!

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

2021-03-22 Thread Bone Baboon
Gary Johnson writes: > I run EXWM under Guix System. It is good to hear that someone else is able to successfully use EXWM with Guix. > You don't need to manually start Xorg > with xinit, startx, or any other command. First, make sure that you are > installing emacs and emacs-exwm into your pa