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01/01: doc: Describe Wayland status.


From: Rutger Helling
Subject: 01/01: doc: Describe Wayland status.
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:15:30 -0500 (EST)

rhelling pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 3853f86fdf3982daeec67ea786045ef51c76f42e
Author: Rutger Helling <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Jan 6 18:12:58 2018 +0100

    doc: Describe Wayland status.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Add a paragraph about the current 
status of
    Wayland in Guix.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1d1f30f..f64f1e0 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Tobias address@hidden
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George address@hidden
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy address@hidden
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun address@hidden
-Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee
+Copyright @copyright{} 2017 address@hidden
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Rutger Helling
 
 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 the Xorg display server by
+default.  If you'd like to use the newer display server protocol
+called Wayland, you need to use the @code{sddm-service} instead of the
address@hidden 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



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