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From: "Daniel Meißner" <daniel.meissner-i4k@rub.de>
To: t@fullmeta.me
Cc: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs inside container: preserved DISPLAY unavailable etc
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:48:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19752F73-2063-41BA-A8A0-6AB3D68C521E@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4f27d76-3b76-4ac3-a04d-0be2d9e3154d@www.fastmail.com>

t@fullmeta.me writes:
> > Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
> 
> Actually, mine only said "No protocol specified" making it vague, yours at least hint at something to investigate.

Yes, the error message changed indeed the last time I tried the container example. I just blindly copied and pasted the output from my shell without noticing really.

> Googling around shows people don't seem to know what they are doing and afraid to dig into X internals, so most posts are just cargo-culting and trying random stuff. Sadly, I'm in that group, so lets just randomly try stuff:
> 
> $ echo $XAUTHORITY
> /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority
> 
> which stores some magic cookie, so lets add
> 
> --expose=$XAUTHORITY --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$'
> 
> standing ovation, everyone congratulates everyone, noone really understands what just happened
> 
> I guess manual needs to be updated, or maybe guix shell --container Scheme code. Dunno
> 
> Thank you very much for that STDERR hint

Happy my comment helped and thank you for your solution I will try that for the chromium example as well.

Best,
Daniel



      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-05 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-04 12:29 Emacs inside container: preserved DISPLAY unavailable etc t
2022-01-04 17:03 ` zimoun
2022-01-04 17:11   ` Vlad Kozin
2022-01-05 12:39 ` Daniel Meißner
2022-01-05 13:09   ` t
2022-01-05 14:48     ` Daniel Meißner [this message]

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