Using X without a Display Manager: Difference between revisions

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Created page with "== X without a Display Manager is unsupported == Many people (especially coming from Arch Linux) are used to starting X manually, e.g. with `startx`. In NixOS, this is current..."
 
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1. Edit configuration.nix appropriately - the following has relevant bits for fluxbox:
1. Edit configuration.nix appropriately - the following has relevant bits for fluxbox:


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<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     xlaunch
     xlaunch
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   };
   };


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2. nixos-rebuild as usual:
2. nixos-rebuild as usual:


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<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
  # nixos-rebuild switch
# nixos-rebuild switch
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3. Possibly reboot
3. Possibly reboot
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4. Start xlaunch from command line, e.g. for fluxbox:
4. Start xlaunch from command line, e.g. for fluxbox:


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<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
  $ xlaunch startfluxbox
$ xlaunch startfluxbox
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