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Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout |
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Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:40:14 -0400 |
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Tanguy Le Carrour <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Guix!
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> I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM
> instead.
This kind of question is best asked on help-guix mailing list. :)
>
> I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently,
> slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is.
When I last tried sddm, I was able to swap my layout like so:
(service sddm-service-type
(sddm-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "dvorak"))))))
>
> I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and
> `(compose …)` blocks from `gdm-service-type` to `slim-service-type`. But it's
> just a guess. I've tried to define `my-slim-service-type` in my system config,
> but failed!
>
> Any help will be welcome!
--
Joshua Branson
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