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| author | Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> | 2018-01-06 18:12:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> | 2018-01-06 18:15:05 +0100 |
| commit | 3853f86fdf3982daeec67ea786045ef51c76f42e (patch) | |
| tree | 72a917ec0683a1bbb2e946a886bd4cb4f6df3d12 /doc | |
| parent | 0438f1d84dfa76d74dea81e387d8090992a692e1 (diff) | |
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doc: Describe Wayland status.
* doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Add a paragraph about the current status of
Wayland in Guix.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |