[Nix-dev] Nixos basic Qs

[Luca Bruno]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Ben B <bburdette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just started using nixos.  So far a positive experience.
>

Welcome.


>
> I do have a few basic questions:
>
> - is there a way to list the files that were installed by a package?


Look into /nix/store/path-of-your-package


>  The
> files that would be installed by a package?  Is there a way to search for a
> package that would install a given file?
>

I don't think there's something like that, we miss some indexing engine.
Not sure.


>
> - is there a way to get the nix expression for a package?
>

No, I don't think so.


>
> - I have xmonad as my window manager, and it defaults to slim as display
> manager/login gadget.  My problem is that one of those two opens a terminal
> by default.  If you type 'exit' into that terminal it kiboshes all open
> programs and exits the window manager.  If you open other terminals you can
> close those normally without such dire consequences.  Unfortunately there's
> no way to distinguish these from the special initial terminal.  Can I just
> start xmonad without this extra 'terminal' terminal?  How is that
> configured?  I can't seem to find slim.conf anywhere, assuming that's where
> I would configure that behavior.
>

Try changing display manager to something like lightdm. Also, in slim you
can choose the session, I think there's an xmonad session.


>
> - the 'locate' command doesn't work.  According to google I should run
> updatedb to make it work, however that gives me a 'readonly filesystem'
> error.
>

Find your way in the nixos manual :)
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