On 23.07.2018 10:43, Divan Santana wrote:
Alex Kost <[email protected]> writes:
Hello,
People often ask how they can use startx/xinit on GuixSD. It is
possible, although it is not as easy as on other distros. Hopefully,
this tutorial will answer some questions on the subject.
At first, a couple of points:
- We will run X server with user privileges, so if something goes wrong,
look at the X log, which is placed at "~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.N.log"
by default.
- We will run "xinit", not "startx": the latter is just a wrapper that
does some preparations and runs "xinit". (startx is a usual shell
script with a usual script's behavior: it does not like that Guix
violates Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so it successfully fails to
start).
Now the steps you need to do to use "xinit":
1. Install xinit, X server and required modules to some guix profile,
for example:
guix package -i xinit xorg-server xf86-input-libinput xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-nouveau
2. Make "~/.xinitrc" file. If you don't know what its content should
be, just put "exec xterm" there, or even better read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit
3. Running "xinit" requires specifying multiple arguments, so you will
probably make an auxiliary script to run it. This script will look
like this:
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#!/bin/sh
DIR=$HOME/.guix-profile
$DIR/bin/xinit -- $DIR/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 -keeptty \
-configdir $DIR/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
-modulepath $DIR/lib/xorg/modules
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Note that using the current terminal ("vt1" in this case) and
"-keeptty" is required, otherwise X server refuses to start without
root privileges.
For testing purposes, you may change the above arguments to ":1 vt2",
switch to vt2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and run this script.
4. Finally (if the above script works), you can remove login manager
from your os services (if you use %desktop-services):
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(use-modules
;; ...
(srfi srfi-1) ; for 'remove'
(gnu services desktop)
(gnu services xorg))
(operating-system
;; ...
(services
(remove (lambda (service)
(eq? (service-kind service) slim-service-type))
%desktop-services)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
To help others, a few other notes.
To auto start x upon login one can do something like
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(mingetty-service (mingetty-configuration
(tty "tty1")
(auto-login "ds")))
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And this in you bashrc/zshrc.
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if [[ ! $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then
exec $HOME/bin/startx.sh
fi
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Also I needed to set these in order for my icons to be detected
again. Failing to do so, the icons aren't found and some apps crash like
libreoffice.
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export
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/run/current-system/profile/share:$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share"
export
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
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Hi, I have an idea about this problem. How ever my understanding is very
limited so take care to do additional research:
I'm still strangely getting this error when my terminals (termite)
launch since switching to this method:
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
Not sure why that is yet.
There is a shell variable $TERM. Also there is a '/usr/share/terminfo/'
directory with some definitions about the various terminals. If a
description of terminal is missing from '/usr/share/terminfo/' it is
possible to see this message from some command-line utilities.
Start with searching the man page of 'tset', 'reset' and 'terminfo'
commands.
Best regards,
Radoslav Petrov
