Re: GRUB theming - background

2020-04-14 Thread ison
I got the same error until changing to an SVG type image, then it worked. I just converted from a PNG using inkscape.

Re: SYSTEM STUTTERING

2019-12-08 Thread ison
I had a similar problem a while back which caused me to switch to Wayland, at least to wait until the problem went away. Once I made the switch I no longer had stuttering on the entire desktop, but it still happens in some games. For example there is no stuttering in Minetest, but there is

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-30 Thread ison
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, Thompson, David wrote: > Stop sending these incoherent essay length rants to the Guix mailing > lists. You've made your point dozens of times. Thanks in advance. > > - Dave > I find his email to be extremely coherent, lucid, on point, and hardly containing any elements

Re: Reminder to remain civil

2019-10-14 Thread ison
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, Tonton wrote: > Quiliro, this is not about censorship. No one is taking away your right to > express yourself. This channel however is not public, even though it comes > close. This channel also has a set topic. > > This is just another drop in the ocean. No one will fix

Re: shepherd as normal user

2019-10-03 Thread ison
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019, Hamzeh Nasajpour wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to run `shepherd` as a normal user automatically (at startup). How > can I do that? > > I know the `shepherd` will be run as root with PID=1 in the init system, but > I have some services that should be run by `shepherd` for

Re: Need help displaying Unicode fonts in Icecat

2019-08-11 Thread ison
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019, Gary Johnson wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I can't seem to get Unicode fonts to display in Icecat (and > Emacs...and really everywhere else too). I'm not a font wizard, so I'm > unsure how to resolve this issue. I've installed both of these packages: > > - font-dejavu > -

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

2019-07-13 Thread ison
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:18:35AM +, Todor Kondić wrote: > ... for some reasong XDG_DATA_DIRS does not exist anymore in my profile; you > were right, the fact that this env var is not defined causes icecat garbage; > do you by any chance know what package to install in order to set the >

Re: Checksum error on manual package install

2019-07-02 Thread ison
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 09:31:22PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Nice work! You should use guix download to get the right hash, like so: "guix > download 3.12.tar.gz". You can also put the hash of another package, see it > fail and it will give you the hash it got instead. Additionally you

Re: When is it appropriate to rename a file?

2019-06-16 Thread ison
I'm not by any means the one who should be answering this question, but just wanted to throw the idea out there that perhaps such things are best saved for major version changes. Because it would require every user to rethink the modules they're using in their system config.scm (and possibly

Re: Version of package fontforge

2019-06-06 Thread ison
conventions? >From e2fe29485a1f65d65fd7db5b6111d4cfe8ca1485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ison Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 22:46:12 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Fix fontforge source date epoch --- gnu/packages/fontutils.scm | 15 ++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/

Re: Version of package fontforge

2019-06-05 Thread ison
Assuming it would be ok to just set the date to the package version date, which sounds reproducible to me, then using the date produced by: date -u -d "20190317" +'%s' gives: 1552780800 I did a quick test to set the configure-flags with this value: (arguments (append (package-arguments

Re: Noob issues with maintaining a guix laptop system

2019-06-04 Thread ison
Just to be clear, when a reconfigure fails you can make any necessary changes and run it again. Guix operations are atomic so it doesn't actually change the state of your system in any way until it finishes. But, if you're asking about rolling back the "guix pull" so that you can run reconfigure

Re: skeleton files in sub-directories

2019-05-26 Thread ison
I think mkdir-p is a better option here. It will create all missing directories so there's no need to run 2 mkdir commands, and won't give an error if the directories already exist.

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-17 Thread ison
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but don't these always get placed into ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile Right now mine seems almost identical to the output of guix package --search-paths with the only difference being that the values in that file are prepended to the existing ones. Therefore all you

Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

2019-05-15 Thread ison
Perhaps all you need is to include the curl package in your package's native-inputs field. Also as a side note, I'm not entirely sure if using open-input-pipe would be considered good practice for packages as far as reproducibility is concerned. Perhaps someone else can comment on that. But

Re: GNOME Videos

2019-05-15 Thread ison
Perhaps you also need gst-plugins-bad and gst-plugins-ugly You might also try installing gst-transcoder too I have all of these installed along with the ones mentioned earlier.

Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages?

2019-05-10 Thread ison
This may not be exactly what you were looking for, but I think "guix environment" might behave sort of like that. It can also accept a manifest file, of course the environment will only be temporary but, if I'm not mistaken, it should combine with your current environment.

Re: A few questions about channels

2019-05-06 Thread ison
> This should work just like it would for GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Are you > saying that the patch files you have created in your channel are not > being found? Correct, they're not being found. But I do not have the variable $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set, because I thought it was being deprecated. Do I need

Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font

2019-05-04 Thread ison
I think quotes cause it to fail. I just tried quoting the font name in my settings.ini and it switched to a fallback font. Can you try with the following: gtk-font-name=Deja Vu Sans 10 No quotes. It probably helps to use an application to set it too, so you know there's no silly formatting errors.

Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font

2019-05-04 Thread ison
Icecat is a GTK3 application. Have you tried setting your GTK3 font? You can do so with an application like lxappearance (under the "widget" tab, select "Default font") Alternatively you can set it manually. If I'm not mistaken it should be in the file: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini At the bare

Re: install --with-version?

2019-05-02 Thread ison
There is a --with-source option. So you could actually specify the download location to the 2.10 version https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html Also have you tried building it by specifying "biber@2.10" instead of just "biber"? Sorry I can't

Update email address

2019-04-29 Thread ison
instead. I'm not sure what the proper procedure for this is, but I'll send an email from my other address to verify ownership. Please let me know if any additional steps are required. Patch file attached. >From 37d6e90fd3e3bb10bc2cd898bd087b9ead31d000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ison Date:

A few questions about channels

2019-04-24 Thread ison
Several questions about channels have been on my mind which I haven't been able to find any documentation on. So I figured I would ask them all in one place since they seem like fairly standard questions that could help others setting up channels in the future as well. 1) Is it possible to

Re: qtwebkit and openshot

2019-03-26 Thread ison
Have you tried using the --do-not-upgrade flag? According to the example here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html you could try: guix package --upgrade . --do-not-upgrade openshot Assuming openshot really is the only package you have which needs

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread ison
So basically you're saying curl is a dependency of other packages and it's failing to build due to the tests? That makes it more complicated. You could always try renaming it to "curl.scm" and testing it, but I'm failry certain it won't work. Again, I'm really not sure if my way is the best way.

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread ison
Since this hasn't received any replies I'll give my solution, although I apologize in advance if this isn't the "best" way to do it. When I want to modify a package that I install via "guix package -i" (as opposed to using the GuixSD system configuration) I just create a new file for each such

Re: Screen does not wake up from suspend ("No signal") on a Radeon RX 580

2019-02-04 Thread ison
I also have an RX 580 and experience the same issue. Although I was under the impression that the cause may be the motherboard or CPU (amd ryzen 7 2700x), as it seems to have other known issues like soft lock-ups. However, I can confirm that I had the same issue with both the radeon and amdgpu