bug#51202: peek broken on foreign distro

bug#51202: peek broken on foreign distro

[zimoun]

Hi,

On foreign distro using Guix fb32a38, I get  this error, from xterm:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix environment --ad-hoc peek -- peek

(peek:31579): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:32:59.181: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not installed
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Inside Emacs (M-x shell), instead I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix environment --ad-hoc peek -- peek
Error: Child process exited with code 1
Unable to initialize default recording backend: Peek requires FFmpeg or running GNOME Shell session.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In this case, adding the package ’ffmpeg’ makes it work.  Any reason to
not propagate ’ffmpeg’ here?  Maybe ’gnome-shell’ could be propagated
instead but the sizes are really different: 797.2MiB vs 2120.1MiB.

If GNOME user really want a light peek without ffmpeg, maybe we could
create 2 variants.  WDYT?

All the best,
simon

bug#51202: peek broken on foreign distro

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Hi simon,

Am Donnerstag, den 14.10.2021, 11:55 +0200 schrieb zimoun:
> In this case, adding the package ’ffmpeg’ makes it work.  Any reason
> to not propagate ’ffmpeg’ here?  Maybe ’gnome-shell’ could be
> propagated instead but the sizes are really different: 797.2MiB vs
> 2120.1MiB.
The correct fix would not be propagation, but rather adding ffmpeg as
normal input (if not already given) and possibly patching peek at build
time to use absolute path ffmpeg.  WDYT?

Regards,
Liliana

bug#51202: peek broken on foreign distro

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 12:02, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> On foreign distro using Guix fb32a38, I get  this error, from xterm:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix environment --ad-hoc peek -- peek
>
> (peek:31579): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:32:59.181: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not installed
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now, using Guix 4dffece, peek is totally broken on foreign distro.


Cheers,
simon

bug#51202: peek broken on foreign distro

[zimoun]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 14:58, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 12:02, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:

> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > $ guix environment --ad-hoc peek -- peek
> >
> > (peek:31579): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:32:59.181: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' is not installed
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Now, using Guix 4dffece, peek is totally broken on foreign distro.

Waiting the correct fix:

    guix shell peek \
            gtk+ gsettings-desktop-schemas ffmpeg \
            -- peek

Cheers,
simon