Re: GNU Guix 1.3.0 released

2021-05-12 Thread Paul Jewell
On 12/05/2021 07:40, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.3.0! Maxim, on behalf of the Guix team. Congratulations, and many thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! Best regards, Paul

Re: My very own Guix System Server in my apartment

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Jewell
Watching with interest Joshua! Please make more videos detailing the process - I find your other videos illuminating! I feel I should also try this at some point, and stop using an off site server. -- Paul On 30/06/2021 16:35, Joshua Branson wrote: Hello Guix people! So I will shortly be

Re: xmodmap doesn't before pressing any button keyboard

2021-07-19 Thread Paul Jewell
On 18/07/2021 15:41, Akib Azmain Turja wrote: I have setup my Emacs iwth EXWM. I am trying to remap several keys to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI), also known as Emacs pinky. To accomplish that, I am using xmodmap. It works perfectly when I invoke the command directly. However it doesn'

Re: GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH doesn't have priority over official guix packages

2021-10-18 Thread Paul Jewell
Just a small thought: On 16/10/2021 22:03, Phil Beadling wrote: As far as I can see, Guix will always prefer the highest version number irrspective of which channel is sources it from. However, if there is a package with the same name in both my channel and in the official guix channel, 'guix i

Re: Running Out of Inodes

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Jewell
I ran into this problem several months back, so I re-installed with brtfs. No issues at all, and never looked back! On 16/11/2021 08:14, Jaft via wrote: Oh, that's really cool. Good to know; I've never used anything outside of (ex)fat, ntfs, or ext4 and btrfs sounds interesting. I may have t

nmtui - user authorisation

2021-12-26 Thread Paul Jewell
Good morning, I am using dwm with network-manager for wifi setup, but the nmtui app doesn't allow me to make changes with a user level account. How can I configure it to allow a user level account to make changes to the wifi setup? Thanks all! Paul

Re: nmtui - user authorisation

2021-12-27 Thread Paul Jewell
Solved this - nmtui needs to be run as root; my script which invoked the program didn't consider that. Changing it to run as sudo gives me an opportunity to enter my password, and then successfully setup the wifi interface details. -- Paul On 27/12/2021 07:33, Paul Jewell wrote:

Re: nmtui - user authorisation

2021-12-28 Thread Paul Jewell
On 27/12/2021 23:20, Leo Famulari wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10:07:17PM +, Paul Jewell wrote: Solved this - nmtui needs to be run as root; my script which invoked the program didn't consider that. Changing it to run as sudo gives me an opportunity to enter my password, and

Re: nmtui - user authorisation

2021-12-29 Thread Paul Jewell
On 29/12/2021 00:50, raingloom wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:39:52 + Paul Jewell wrote: On 27/12/2021 23:20, Leo Famulari wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10:07:17PM +, Paul Jewell wrote: Solved this - nmtui needs to be run as root; my script which invoked the program didn't con

guix home .bashrc query

2021-12-29 Thread Paul Jewell
I am starting to work with guix home, and after the simple "guix home import" and guix home reconfigure with the created configuration, I note that the .bashrc now has the original content from my .bashrc, but duplicated, with one exception - the check to see if /etc/bashrc is present before so

Re: guix home .bashrc query

2021-12-29 Thread Paul Jewell
On 29/12/2021 12:06, Paul Jewell wrote: I am starting to work with guix home, and after the simple "guix home import" and guix home reconfigure with the created configuration, I note that the .bashrc now has the original content from my .bashrc, but duplicated, with one exception -

Re: bug#52904: nmtui - user authorisation

2022-01-02 Thread Paul Jewell
On 31/12/2021 18:41, Josselin Poiret wrote: Hello, raingloom writes: On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:04:39 + Paul Jewell wrote: On 29/12/2021 00:50, raingloom wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:39:52 + Paul Jewell wrote: On 27/12/2021 23:20, Leo Famulari wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 10

Re: guix home .bashrc query

2022-01-12 Thread Paul Jewell
point? Thanks to Andrew and the other developers for guix home - I like what I see! :) On 29/12/2021 12:15, Paul Jewell wrote: On 29/12/2021 12:06, Paul Jewell wrote: I am starting to work with guix home, and after the simple "guix home import" and guix home reconfigure with the c

SLiM Operation / dwm launch issue

2022-02-15 Thread Paul Jewell
Good afternoon, I am using SLiM as a display manager, and have dwm installed (a personally modified version, which inherits from the standard guix version). When I set this up originally, I couldn't get in to dwm, so I was advised to use a .xsession file. That works fine, and logs me into dwm

Substituting package definition for dependency

2022-02-21 Thread Paul Jewell
thermald doesn't build at the moment (bug 54061). Maxime has created some patches which get around the problem, something I confirmed by building from a local patched git repo. I would like to incorporate these patches so I can continue to update guix, until such time the patches find their way

Dual booting

2022-07-28 Thread Paul Jewell via
Good afternoon, Could anyone please share a working configuration for dual booting windows and guix? I have to use windows for work, but use Linux for everything else. I want to put guix on my work laptop so I can stick with Linux when travelling (I am self employed, so there are no IT restri

Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-24 Thread Paul Jewell via
Good morning Guix, I have a working stumpwm config which I use on my desktop gentoo installation, and I want to use the same configuration file under guix. Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains it can't find package "ql". Quicklisp is installed in my user home

Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-24 Thread Paul Jewell via
Hi Felix, Thanks for the response! On 25/12/2022 04:29, Felix Lechner wrote: Hi Paul, On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Paul Jewell via wrote: I want to use the same configuration file under guix. Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains it can't find pa

Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-25 Thread Paul Jewell via
Hi Trev, Thanks for the reply! On 25/12/2022 07:41, Trev wrote: Paul Jewell via writes: Good morning Guix, I have a working stumpwm config which I use on my desktop gentoo installation, and I want to use the same configuration file under guix. Unfortunately I run into a problem as when

Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-26 Thread Paul Jewell via
On 25/12/2022 08:05, Paul Jewell via wrote: I have now gone down this path, and nearly everything is working as expected. The only problem I am tripping up with is sbcl-slime-swank is trying to (require 'sb-cltl2) and failing, even though I have added sbcl-trivial-cltl2 to my s

home-files-service-type - naming restrictions?

2022-12-26 Thread Paul Jewell via
Good afternoon, I have a home configuration which has worked without issue for some time, but now I wanted to add the configuration files for urxvt: (home-environment (packages ...) (services (list ... (simple-service 'urxvt-config home-files-service-type

Re: home-files-service-type - naming restrictions?

2022-12-26 Thread Paul Jewell via
On 26/12/2022 14:53, Paul Jewell via wrote: Good afternoon, I have a home configuration which has worked without issue for some time, but now I wanted to add the configuration files for urxvt: (home-environment   (packages ...)   (services     (list   ...   (simple-service '

guile "Fatal Error: glibc detected an invalid stdio handle"

2023-01-09 Thread Paul Jewell via
Good morning! While working on my home configuration, I came across a problem with guile. After starting guile, regardless of what ever I enter, I get the correct response, followed by the error "Fatal Error: glibc detected an invalid stdio handle" and guile aborting. After spending time dis