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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-07 18:48:21 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-11-07 18:56:17 +0100
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install: Run GPM.
Suggested by Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> at <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00133.html>. * gnu/system/install.scm (installation-services): Add call to 'gpm-service'. * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Mention GPM.
-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi4
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/install.scm3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 6a079477b1..896a8c8496 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -5286,7 +5286,9 @@ Once you have successfully booted the image on the USB stick, you should
end up with a root prompt. Several console TTYs are configured and can
be used to run commands as root. TTY2 shows this documentation,
browsable using the Info reader commands (@pxref{Help,,, info, Info: An
-Introduction}).
+Introduction}). The installation system runs the GPM mouse daemon,
+which allows you to select text with the left mouse button and to paste
+it with the middle button.
To install the system, you would:
diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 93a6f18c49..887bceb155 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ You have been warned. Thanks for being so brave.
(console-font-service "tty5")
(console-font-service "tty6")
+ ;; To facilitate copy/paste.
+ (gpm-service)
+
;; Since this is running on a USB stick with a unionfs as the root
;; file system, use an appropriate cache configuration.
(nscd-service (nscd-configuration