From a790d403524df182cdd8aa35931b989234d874cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rutger Helling Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:14:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Describe Wayland status. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Add a paragraph about the current status of Wayland in Guix. --- doc/guix.texi | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 1d1f30f00..336e94764 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George address@hidden Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy address@hidden Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun address@hidden Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee +Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Rutger address@hidden Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -12151,6 +12152,13 @@ limited number of special-purpose system interfaces. Additionally, adding a service made by @code{mate-desktop-service} adds the MATE metapackage to the system profile. +The desktop environments in Guix use X11 by default. If you'd like to +use the more modern display server protocol called Wayland, you need +to use the @code{sddm-service} instead of the @code{slim-service} for +the graphical login manager. You should then select the ``GNOME +(Wayland)'' session in SDDM. Currently only GNOME has support for +Wayland. + @deffn {Scheme Procedure} gnome-desktop-service Return a service that adds the @code{gnome} package to the system profile, and extends polkit with the actions from -- 2.15.1