On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Ben B <[email protected]> wrote: > Just started using nixos. So far a positive experience. >
Welcome. > > I do have a few basic questions: > > - is there a way to list the files that were installed by a package? Look into /nix/store/path-of-your-package > The > files that would be installed by a package? Is there a way to search for a > package that would install a given file? > I don't think there's something like that, we miss some indexing engine. Not sure. > > - is there a way to get the nix expression for a package? > No, I don't think so. > > - I have xmonad as my window manager, and it defaults to slim as display > manager/login gadget. My problem is that one of those two opens a terminal > by default. If you type 'exit' into that terminal it kiboshes all open > programs and exits the window manager. If you open other terminals you can > close those normally without such dire consequences. Unfortunately there's > no way to distinguish these from the special initial terminal. Can I just > start xmonad without this extra 'terminal' terminal? How is that > configured? I can't seem to find slim.conf anywhere, assuming that's where > I would configure that behavior. > Try changing display manager to something like lightdm. Also, in slim you can choose the session, I think there's an xmonad session. > > - the 'locate' command doesn't work. According to google I should run > updatedb to make it work, however that gives me a 'readonly filesystem' > error. > Find your way in the nixos manual :)
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