Re: Problem with Guix install with openbox

[Alexander Asteroth]

Dear Timothy,

Thank you for the hint. Unfortunately “~/.config/openbox/menu.xml” does not 
exists and "find ~/.config -name openbox” does not yield any result.

Also my ~/.guix-profile/bin is very unpopulated. Also at command line prompt I 
don’t have emacs. Shouldn’d this be installed by the install process?

W.r.t. how I “installed” lxde (just by guix install lxde). Do I need to 
reconfigure every time I install something?

Cheers,

        Alex

> On 22. Jul 2019, at 16:03, Timothy Sample <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> Alexander Asteroth <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> As a former Guile programmer I like the idea to configure my system using 
>> guile.
>> I installed Guix in a vm (VmwareFusion I have to admit) and everything
>> worked fine.
>> I used the graphical installer and chose Openbox as a Windowmanager-Option.
>> Unfortunately after Installation the desktop is empty and right-click
>> menu contains only dead links.
> 
> The last time I looked at our Openbox package, I noticed that it uses a
> default menu configuration.  That means it has links to stuff like
> Firefox, even though we don’t have a Firefox package.
> 
> You will have to edit the Openbox menu configuration to point to
> programs that you have in your profile.  If memory serves, it’s at
> “~/.config/openbox/menu.xml”.  There, you can tell it how to launch
> programs, so you could fix the “emacs” entry to point to
> “~/.guix-profile/bin/emacs”, for example.  :)
> 
> You will have to get started from the console, because Openbox will not
> know how to open any terminal emulators.
> 
>> I also tride installing lxde afterwards with no options effect. 
>> Any hint what I can do to solve the issue?
>> Thanks! 
> 
> Unfortunately, I don’t know about LXDE.  Just to be sure, how did you
> “install” LXDE?  Did you include it in your operating system
> configuration and then run “guix system reconfigure config.scm”?
> 
> 
> -- Tim
>