Subject: Re: bug#59783: [version 1.4.0rc1] Suggested window managers don't work out of the box

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:40:43 -0500

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Once there was a commit
>
> commit 3ad3c55842dd34adc4b1a1b65ba0abfbdf5b92ee
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Wed Apr 17 00:27:04 2019 +0200
>
>     installer: Desktop environment page now includes window managers.
>     
>     * gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[snippet]: Change to be a
>     list of sexps and add default value.
>     [packages]: New field.
>     (%system-services): Adjust 'snippet' fields to be lists of sexps.
>     Add Openbox, awesome, i3, and ratpoison.
>     (system-services->configuration): Adjust 'snippet' handling.  Honor
>     'packages' field.
>
> Maybe openbox and ratpoison services should not be suggested by the
> Guix System graphical installer, because they apparently are unusable
> without further config files.  Note that sway is not among the
> suggested desktop environments either.  WDYT?

What do you mean unusable? I use ratpoison, and a configuration file is
*not* required.  You may be stumped by the empty screen with the mouse
being utterly useless.  That's the whole point of ratpoison ;-).

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim