Running graphical install inside existing Guix System

2021-01-11 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, I have an existing Guix System running on my laptop and would like to install Guix System onto a brand new larger hard drive, connected by a USB-to-SATA cable. Could it be possible to run the graphical installer from within my existing Guix System to partition and install onto the

Guix on a cloud VM

2021-08-31 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Mathieu (and CC'ing help-guix), Thanks for your help on the Guix IRC yesterday! I'm still struggling with getting the VM running as I'd like. I tried the ISO format as you suggested, but my hosting service (Binary Lane) seems to treat this somewhat-specially as a read-only format. I can "trick"

Re: Guix on a cloud VM

2021-09-01 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Thanks Mathieu! We've discussed further on IRC, but summarising below for the list. On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Oh, too bad. You could maybe contact Binary Lane support to find out > why? Have you tried to boot your qcow2 image on your machine with QEMU? > The command line woul

Re: Guix on a cloud VM

2021-09-01 Thread Ben Sturmfels
FYI for others, I've updated my `guix deploy` blog post with a bunch of extra learnings thanks to Mathieu and others: https://stumbles.id.au/getting-started-with-guix-deploy.html Regards, Ben

Any success with fingerprint scanner/fprintd for Gnome login?

2024-03-23 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, Has anyone had success using a fingerprint scanner for Gnome login? I'm currently on a ThinkPad X230, but did have the fingerprint scanner working on an X60 working under Trisquel about 8 years ago. I added "(service fprintd-service-type)" to my Guix System services list and "fprintd"

Re: Missing Secure and Private Communication Applications in Guix

2019-04-30 Thread Ben Sturmfels
On 01/05/19 03:16, Dexter Morgan wrote: >[9] Twinkle (https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Twinkle) Hi Dexter, Twinkle is in Guix too - I use it every day and it works very well. For what it's worth, I wouldn't recommend packaging Ekiga. I've tried it many times on other operating systems over the

Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT

2020-02-03 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Divan, On 4/2/20 3:57 am, di...@santanas.co.za wrote: > I see timezones in browsers on my guix system are set to GMT. > > An example would be qutebrowser and guessing ungoogled-chromium which > use qtwebengine. > > Example website is browsing to > https://play.grafana.org/d/00012/grafana-

Re: I broke NetworkManager (migrating to unprivileged daemon)

2025-05-08 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Thomas, I managed to fix my wifi - see below. Ben Sturmfels writes: "Thomas Ieong" writes: I guix pulled yesterday and noticed that the build daemon could now be run unprivileged, so I reconfigured and today I woke up and noticed that my wifi isn't working anymore. Wh

Re: I broke NetworkManager

2025-05-08 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Thomas, "Thomas Ieong" writes: I guix pulled yesterday and noticed that the build daemon could now be run unprivileged, so I reconfigured and today I woke up and noticed that my wifi isn't working anymore. When I run `nmcli d` I get this: ``` wlp0s20f3wifi unmanaged ``` An

Guix home service from single Python script

2025-06-08 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, I have a small Python script that sends me desktop notifications to help remind me to stop staring at the screen and go to bed on time. I'd like to turn it into a Guix home service, but I'm struggling and would love some advice. Source for package, service and example home config i

Gnome Tracker (tracker-miner-fs-3) behaving badly

2022-08-17 Thread Ben Sturmfels via
Hi Folks! I really like the idea of Gnome Tracker - index all your files, contacts, etc. so you can quickly search them. It just doesn't seem to work properly, it uses a lot of resources and it's behaviour is opaque. I'm not sure whether this is the configuration in Guix System, or whether Tracker

Re: Gnome Tracker (tracker-miner-fs-3) behaving badly

2022-08-17 Thread Ben Sturmfels via
Ben Sturmfels Sturm Software Engineering www.sturm.com.au +61 3 9024 2467 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Tracker logging every file it sees wouldn't be a good idea: apart from the > wasted space, you'd be adding even more I/O load to the mix... > > Try stracin

Re: Gnome Tracker (tracker-miner-fs-3) behaving badly

2022-08-18 Thread Ben Sturmfels via
indieterminacy writes: > If I recall, Gnome Tracker uses Xapian as its backend. > > I seem to have previously noticed alternative software which appears more > performant (though I moved onto other activity so I cant confirm). > > Is something like Redmine-Xapian a satisfactory alternative? > htt