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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 32 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm index c831d5ee0d..1225570c3c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2024, 2025 Giacomo Leidi <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Jelle Licht <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Jonathan Frederickson <[email protected]> -;;; Copyright © 2019-2024 Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> +;;; Copyright © 2019-2025 Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020 Martin Becze <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019 David Wilson <[email protected]> ;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020 Raghav Gururajan <[email protected]> @@ -12813,22 +12813,38 @@ integrate seamlessly with the GNOME desktop.") libxml2 qemu-minimal ;for qemu-img sparql-query - spice-gtk tracker vte webkitgtk-for-gtk3)) + (propagated-inputs + ;; Propagating spice-gtk is necessary so that the gnome-desktop-service + ;; type configures the polkit actions necessary for the USB redirection + ;; feature to work when gnome-boxes added as a extra GNOME package. + (list spice-gtk)) (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes") (synopsis "View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems") (description "GNOME Boxes is a simple application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. Note that this application requires the @code{libvirt} and @code{virtlog} daemons to run. Use the command @command{info '(guix) Virtualization Services'} to learn how to configure -these services on the Guix System. If you do not use the -@code{gnome-desktop-service-type}, you will also want to extend the -@code{polkit-service-type} with the @code{spice-gtk} package, as well as -configure the @file{libexec/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper} executable of -@code{spice-gtk} as setuid, to make it possible to redirect USB devices as a -non-privileged user.") +these services on the Guix System. + +To make it possible to redirect USB devices as a non-privileged user, some +extra configuration is necessary: if you use the +@code{gnome-desktop-service-type}, you should add the @code{gnome-boxes} +package to the @code{extra-packages} field of the +@code{gnome-desktop-configuration}, for example: +@lisp +(service gnome-desktop-service-type + (gnome-desktop-configuration + (extra-packages (list gnome-boxes gnome-essential-extras)))) +@end lisp +If you do @emph{not} use the @code{gnome-desktop-service-type}, you will need +manually extend the @code{polkit-service-type} with the @code{spice-gtk} +package, as well as configure the +@file{libexec/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper} executable of @code{spice-gtk} +as setuid, to make it possible to redirect USB devices as a non-privileged +user.") (license (list ;; For data/icons/empty-boxes.png. license:cc-by2.0 |