Re: GNU Guix 1.5 informations

[gfp]

thanks for your answer

Am 01.02.26 um 18:13 schrieb Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide:

Gfp <g...@posteo.at> writes:

  My LXQT desktop didn´t even show up emacs after the update to Guix 1.5
  I can open emacs only through the terminal.
  That was not before the update. Emacs was shown up.

This sounds like .desktop-files are missing.

If so, how can I install or add them?
this would be necessary for LXQT, MATE, KDE X11, other desktops I don´t use.

  That means that the GUI desktops are very fragile,
  I experienced this for the last 4 years.

I switched from Gnome to xfce with the wm replaced by exwm a few years
ago, because Gnome was annoying once too often (that was back when Guix
didn’t have KDE yet), and now I’m used to it and no longer would want to
miss it.

Since you’re already using Emacs, that may be an option. It also helps
with performance of some games, because there’s then no conflict between
desktop and game who gets how much GPU memory.

I don´t use games at all,
but I already had an eye on exwm
and even read your "tips" on it,
but my emacs knowledge is still too little, I am learning Emacs,
and to be completely dependant on emacs is still risky
that´s why I hesitate to switch to exwm at the moment.

I prefer for the moment to stay in KDE because it is quite developed,
even though some KDE apps are not yet available in Guix like
scanlite, skanpage, knotes.

If I knew how to do it,
and somebody would give me pieces of advice,
I would install exwm in a vm
to learn step by step (depending on the time I have) how to use it,
but not being completely dependant on it
so that I can always switch back to KDE for my daily needs.

EXWM (Emacs X-Window Manager) also has its glitches, but it’s in Emacs
and the integration makes it more convenient than others;
(exwm-systemtray-mode) and `dunst -sort -stack_duplicates` fulfill most
of my desktop needs.

This also means that I’m bound to Xorg for the forseeable future.

  Hopefully time will come to have time to improve also the GUI interfaces
  with their desktops.

I hope so, too. KDE is already pretty good these days. I’d always
recommend it to new users.

Best wishes,
Arne

thanks

Gottfried

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