On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:58:00 +0000 ng0 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > gno <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hello guys ! > > > > First off, guix is great, even if it takes quite some time to get > > used to :) > > > > I made it work in no time and am now running guixsd (lightweight > > desktop setup with awesome). I'd like to keep at it but I do need to > > solve 2 problems first. I was asking around in #guix and was > > referred to this email add. > > > > Is there any way to make it respect .xinitrc, preferrably when slim > > starts ? I use a diy keyboard with a custom xmodmap that needs to be > > loaded. I tried all kinds of things with ~ and > > root; .xinitrc, .xserverrc, .xsession (crashed w/o logs). > > > > Also, unfortunately awesome-wm is quite dated. I'd like to update > > it so that it is compatible with my config. There have been quite a > > few API changes. Is it feasible to try and package a newer version > > myself or did you not do it already because of missing dependencies > > or other complications ? > > I ran into complications when I first started to work on awesome-wm, > then someone else packaged the older version of awesome-wm which just > worked. I will search my patch, rebase, comment it, send to the > guix-devel list ([email protected]) and you can bring it to a working > state if you like to? Additional help you can get from other > contributors if this is your first patch. That would be much appreciated ! So far it's been pretty catastrophic. I managed to compile lua with dynamic load support since that was the first problem I ran into with lua-lgi. Now lua-lgi sucessfully builds and loads; but its tests throw a segfault. Awesome doesnt want to build the man pages and is not exactly verbose as to why that is. Here's my progress: https://github.com/doncatnip/guix-packages Any help welcome :) cheers > > > > Thanks for all the hard work ! :) > > - muck > > >
