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I'm gaslighting them for the greater good (europe.pub)
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How I feel when symlinking a library to act as the "correct" version so my executables stop nagging. Spongebob angrily shouting "You are going to load my shared libraries, and you are going to like it!"
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (13 children)

What error are you getting? Does it reconfigure succesfully?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (12 children)

    If it does reconfigure successfully, it just gives a blank screen, or takes me to the terminal login prompt instead of a GUI login prompt.

    I tried other things and it fails after hours of downloading packages and building. Does it seem right to you? What do you think I might be missing?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

    Well from a glance the config looks fine. I looked at the documentation but there's not a lot of information on what the lxqt service actually includes. My first guess as to why it drops you to a tty is that perhaps it doesn't include a display manager.

    Edit: actually nevermind, you're appending to %desktop-services and i'm pretty sure that includes gdm. Maybe the problem lies in gdm trying to use wayland by default. There's an option to change that, i'll see if i can find it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    thanks so much. The documentation that I've glanced just makes it seem so easy, "just replace X with Y and nothing more!"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I'm not sure if this will work, but what you can try is replacing the %desktop-services with this:

    (modify-services %desktop-services
  (gdm-service-type config =>
                                   (gdm-configuration
                                     (inherit config)
                                     (wayland? #f))))

    I'm not sure if wayland is actually the problem though, especially if gdm was working fine before you swapped to lxqt. Another thing i'm thinking of is maybe lxqt isn't properly exposing a session file to gdm, and perhaps gdm crashes because it doesn't find any sessions to start. I think i've seen other people adding this session file manually but i would have to look up how it's done. The thing is i don't use a DE myself, and i'm using greetd+gtkgreet as a display manager and it just launches me into a tty, and then my bash_profile has a snippet that checks which tty i'm and whether it's empty, and if it is it launches my wayland compositor of choice.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    thanks for trying. I did that, I get to the login, and then I get a mouse and a black screen after the login still. I basically did (more or less):

    before

      (services
   (append (list (service xfce-desktop-service-type)

                 ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                 ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                 (service openssh-service-type)
                 (set-xorg-configuration
                  (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))

           ;; This is the default list of services we
           ;; are appending to.
           %desktop-services))

    after

      (services
   (append (list (service lxqt-desktop-service-type)

                 ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                 ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                 (service openssh-service-type)
                 (set-xorg-configuration
                  (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))

           ;; This is the default list of services we
           ;; are appending to.
           (modify-services %desktop-services
                        (gdm-service-type config =>
                                   (gdm-configuration
                                     (inherit config)
                                     (wayland? #f)
                                     )
                          )
              )

))

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Hmm, that does look correct and if it reconfigured without errors it's probably alright. Another thing you could try is run ls /var/log and see if there's an entry for gdm. If there is you could cat the log file and see what it says

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

    It looks like there are some device failures and it's missing (EE) Failed to load module "qxl" (module does not exist, 0)

    Full log : https://pastebin.com/9YDiEpiN

    once again thanks for your time and efforts. I appreciate your help.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I haven't tried to be honest, since it defeats the entire purpose of fucking around with Guix. I made a few posts on this, but I just fuck around with VMs when I haven't done a "technical" activity to avoid feeling like a useless jackass, and one of the distros I wanted to learn about is Guix.

    If I want to run guix install lxqt I can. But why would I want to use Guix to have a user with a certain desktop environment? I want to be able to set up machines at the drop of a hat that are all the same all the time, and I want the machine to be all the same, not the user.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    For anyone else reading, I stupidly deleted my comment where I asked more-or-less the following (sorry):

    This might be a stupid question, as I am unfamiliar with GUIX/Nix and am unlikely to be able to help, but what happens when you try to run LXQt from the CLI?

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