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3853f86fdf3982daeec67ea786045ef51c76f42e — Rutger Helling 8 years ago 0438f1d
doc: Describe Wayland status.

* doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Add a paragraph about the current status of
Wayland in Guix.
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +9 -1
@@ 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