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Emacs EXWM as Desktop Environment in GuixOS installation

Awesome how the GuixOS graphical installer provides the Emacs EXWM desktop environment out-of-the-box!

It's good to feel in home.


I wanted to take a ANSI screenshot of that ncurses page, but tried to run installer from Guile in this qube but had no success. Tried via qemu too but only shown UI via VNC, -nographic seem to freeze after the grub load the image.

SeaBIOS (version 1.17.0-8.fc42)


iPXE (https://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA00 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+3EFCAE40+3EF0AE40 CA00




Press ESC for boot menu.

Select boot device:

1. DVD/CD [ata0-1: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 DVD/CD] (GUIX_X86_64-LINUX_1.5.0)
2. DVD/CD [ata1-0: QEMU DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 DVD/CD]
3. Floppy [drive A]
4. ata0-0: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk (30720 MiBytes)
5. iPXE (PCI 00:03.0)
6. Legacy option rom

Booting from DVD/CD...
Welcome to GRUB!

After a while it gets blank.

Won't spend more than 20 minutes on this, so sorry, no screenshot today. Need more time to understand qemu and Guix codebase.