bug#61697: Chromium with guix shell container from the manual doesn't work.

bug#61697: Chromium with guix shell container from the manual doesn't work.

[email]

Followed the manual for guix shell here: 
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-shell

Initially I wanted to setup an icecat container so I just removed 
chromium for icecat, I got this error:

```

guix shell --container --network --no-cwd icecat --preserve='^DISPLAY$' 
-- icecat
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Error: cannot open display: :0.0

```


I tried chromium too. It still errors out but with a different error:

```

guix shell --container --network --no-cwd ungoogled-chromium 
--preserve='^DISPLAY$' -- chromium
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
[1:1:0221/164151.354628:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(238)] Missing X 
server or $DISPLAY
[1:1:0221/164151.354678:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to 
initialize.  Exiting.

```


Chromium starts just fine without the container flag so the problem 
seems to be in the container flag specifically.


Msavoritias

bug#61697: Chromium with guix shell container from the manual doesn't work.

[email]

The problem was that in xorg you need the specific option:

```

--share=/tmp

```

So the command would look like:

```

guix shell --container --network --share=/tmp --no-cwd icecat 
--preserve='^DISPLAY$' -- icecat

```


While in wayland it works as is.

Next step would be documenting this in the manual.

bug#61697: Chromium with guix shell container from the manual doesn't work.

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On lun., 06 mars 2023 at 15:07, "email@msavoritias.me" <email@msavoritias.me> wrote:

> Next step would be documenting this in the manual.

Do you want to give a try in fixing the example provided by the manual?  WDYT?


Cheers,
simon

bug#61697:

[Виталий Ковалев]

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Still have the same error with specifying --share=/tmp. Maybe I should add
something else?
```
kovalev@mirage ~$ guix shell --container --network --preserve="^DISPLAY$"
--no-cwd --share=/tmp ungoogled-chromium -- chromium
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
[1:1:0416/103619.358790:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(238)] Missing X server
or $DISPLAY
[1:1:0416/103619.358806:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to
initialize.  Exiting.
```
```
kovalev@mirage ~$ guix shell --container --network --preserve="^DISPLAY$"
--no-cwd --share=/tmp icecat -- icecat
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Error: cannot open display: :1
```

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