Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

[Bone Baboon]

Gary Johnson writes:

>   I run EXWM under Guix System.

It is good to hear that someone else is able to successfully use EXWM
with Guix.

> You don't need to manually start Xorg
> with xinit, startx, or any other command. First, make sure that you are
> installing emacs and emacs-exwm into your packages list. Also make sure
> that your services list includes %desktop-services. Here's a skeleton
> operating-system definition to build off of:
>
> (operating-system
>  ...
>  (packages (cons* nss-certs   ; HTTPS access
>                   emacs
>                   emacs-exwm
>                   %base-packages))
>
>  (services (cons* whatever-else
>                   you-want
>                   %desktop-services)))
>
> Start by installing this operating-system definition with the usual
> `sudo guix system reconfigure my-config.scm`.
>
> Then update your $HOME/.xsession file to include this at the end:
>
> # Start Emacs with the script here: /run/current-system/profile/bin/exwm
> exwm
>
> Finally, update $HOME/.exwm to include all your EXWM-specific Emacs Lisp
> code.
>
> When you reboot your machine, you'll be presented with a simple
> graphical login screen. Just type in your username and password for the
> user account with the updated $HOME/.xsession and $HOME/exwm files and
> log in. X will start up, your $HOME/.xsession file will be read, which
> will launch exwm. This will start up a full screen emacs instance that
> evaluates your $HOME/.exwm file and then your $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el
> file.
>
> That's all there is to it. Now you've got a fully graphically enabled
> Emacs instance running as a tiling window manager over X.

Thank you for the detailed instructions.

When I follow the instruction and boot I am taken to vt7 which has only
a blinking cursor. I never get a graphical login for X. The system is
responsive and I can switch to other virtual terminals.

On vt1 there is output like this:

New session c1 of user gdm.
Removed session c1.
New session c2 of user gdm.
Removed session c2.
New session c3 of user gdm.
Removed session c3.
...