From 3853f86fdf3982daeec67ea786045ef51c76f42e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rutger Helling Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 18:12:58 +0100 Subject: 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 1d1f30f000..f64f1e0476 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun Isaac@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee +Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee@* +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 +@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 -- cgit v1.2.3