Re: Running graphical apps with guix shell --container

[Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>]

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On Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 4:01 PM, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 

> So this worked:
> 

> EXAMPLE:
> guix shell -C -E "^DISPLAY$" -E "^XAUTHORITY$" --expose="$XAUTHORITY" --share=/tmp/.X11-unix/ --share=$HOME/.Xauthority
> END EXAMPLE
> 

> But I'm just typing things without much consideration and hoping for the best :) For example, the application now starts but it has no icons. So I guess I'll go find some information about all the fundamental variables and resources required by GTK apps to run.

I took a shortcut and just added "gnome" package to the manifest. After this, I also noticed a dbind-related warning¹ when starting the app and lots of dconf-related warnings² when using a file chooser dialog from the app. I got rid of the former by exposing the socket mentioned in the warning, while the latter went away after exposing the machine-id. So the command now looks like this:

EXAMPLE:
guix shell -C -E "^DISPLAY$" -E "^XAUTHORITY$" --expose="$XAUTHORITY" --expose=/tmp/.X11-unix/ --expose=$HOME/.Xauthority --expose=/tmp/dbus-P03C3WeCs0 --expose=/etc/machine-id
END EXAMPLE

At this point, the app is displayed and works as expected :)


1. dbind-WARNING **: 19:19:29.619: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-P03C3WeCs0: No such file or director
2. dconf-WARNING **: 19:39:19.279: failed to commit changes to dconf: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable to load /gnu/store/qqs98rxwjrji6aaf6dqwp7q4m545g2sn-glib-2.70.0/var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /etc/machine-id: Failed to open file ?/gnu/store/qqs98rxwjrji6aaf6dqwp7q4m545g2sn-glib-2.70.0/var/lib/dbus/machine-id?: No such file or directory

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