xcalc looks "incomplete" - dependencies missing?

xcalc looks "incomplete" - dependencies missing?

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hello,

thanks to pjotr's great notes about containers [1], I now know how to
run a X-application in a guix container :-) Thanks pjotr!

I tried this with xcalc and got a "incomplete" window, see screenshot
(yes, is this tiny thing is the complete window).



Now I'm wondering what the reason for this is. It looks like xcalc is
missing some dependencies?

Addendum: I found out that xcalc is behaving the same when running in a
normal environment. Also please note that I'm running guix on top of
some host OS.

To reproduce:

./pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc xcalc -- xcalc


[1] https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/CONTAINERS.org

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running icecat in container – inputs missing? (was: xcalc looks "incomplete" - dependencies missing?)

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hallo,

since xcalc does not work well when running in a container (and in a
stand-alone environment), I tried icecat, since this is what pjotr's
great notes about containers [1] are using as an example.

Now, the result is: icecat does not run in a container, too (it does run
in an environment, though)

I assume icecat or gtk is missing some inputs, which even may need to be
propagated. Any hints?

./pre-inst-env guix environment --container --network
--share=/tmp/.X11-unix --fallback --ad-hoc icecat
export DISPLAY=:0.0
icecat

failed with:

ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 46
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
(crashreporter:47): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not load a pixbuf from
/org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/image-missing.png.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be
found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:gtkiconhelper.c:493:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion
failed: (destination)


I tried adding shared-mime-info with no result.



[1] https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/CONTAINERS.org

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