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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-11-07 18:48:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-11-07 18:56:17 +0100 |
| commit | ae7ffa9e9b9135928f67ba9fb28c9d6766bf7088 (patch) | |
| tree | 108dba3f81f5bee70e5b2d6bcfa9f9dca971925e | |
| parent | 8664cc882c2bfc0be48e2b9303cf34ab12f30fa3 (diff) | |
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.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/install.scm | 3 |
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 |