Re Guix in Trisquel 11
I just wanted to report that andyprough's steps for installing Guix in Trisquel 10 worked for me in 11 also. I followed them exactly.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/installing-guix-trisquel-10-w-luakit-and-ungoogled-chromium
I installed Avidemux via Guix and as before I had to use it a couple of times before it showed up in the menu. The command avidemux did not work in the terminal but in the home folder, in .guix-profile/share/applications a double click on the avidemux.desktop file did start it.
I created this post once forgetting to select a category. Hopefully that one just goes to the bit bucket.
That's good to hear. I think I recall that if you want stuff to show up right away in the Mate menu, you can try logging out or find a command to restart the mate-panel or marco window manager. Maybe something like
mate-panel --replace
would do it, or
marco --replace
I don't have Mate or Guix installed right this second to try it on.
Well having broken my Trisquel 10 and since 11 is working well and I happened to notice PureOS listed by fsf.org as certified free software, anyway I can report these steps worked perfectly in PureOS 10 also. And rebooting after installing avidemux it does show up as it should. Yeah!
>"I can report these steps worked perfectly in PureOS 10 also"
Wow that's interesting. I guess both Trisquel and PureOS are Ubuntu-based, so it makes sense.
Pure OS is Debian-based.
I tried this on my T60 and broke my install while back. I want to see if guix would work on Tresquel 10 on a newer laptop. I really like the Ice Cat Browser.
I got it to work on my laptops with no issues. Awesome guide !
I installed guix on Pure OS, all my browsers pop up as GNU Icecat. How would I fix that ?
What do you mean by "all my browsers"? For example, if they are all different forks of Firefox and they all use the same ~/.mozilla profile folder, you could have a bit of a complex issue to sort out.
I'm not saying it can't be managed - I deal with something very similar on my systems. But getting your menu entries to all look and be named correctly can take a bit of work.
I like to keep different tasks to certain browsers for privacy and compatibility. For example I use Abrowser for Ebay, sometimes Icecat has issues uploading pictures. Both great browsers.
Guix works fine with my laptop running Trisquel. Guix on Pure OS works, but anytime I use a Firefox based browser it always shows up as Icecat in my taskbar and in the dock. That's what I meant.
In the MATE panel the default Icon for Abrowser doesn't actually start Abrowser but x-www-browser. It's possible to change what this points to by running update-alternatives --config x-www-browser although I don't know how this will work with browsers installed behind the package manager's pack (via Guix or other methods.) Good luck with that.