Re: Guix, Rofi, i3wm and Locales

["Pierre-Henry F." <contact@phfrohring.com>]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 2:13 PM, <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "Pierre-Henry F." contact@phfrohring.com skribis:
>
> > > Concretely, if you explicitly run ~/.guix-profile/bin/rofi, what
> > > happens? Does it print warnings about locale issues?
> >
> > I replaced things in the calling script:
> > #! /usr/bin/env bash
> > ~/.guix-profile/bin/rofi -combi-modi window,drun,run -theme solarized -font 'hack 10' -show combi -modi combi
> > And... nothing happens!
>
> You mean you no longer get the warning issues? (I was suggesting running
> the command directly at the prompt rather than in a script, to make sure
> nothing is interfering.)

I did and it works fine from the command line...
The problem occurs only when the script is triggered from the i3 shortcut.
i3 was not installed from Guix... I will try to install i3 with Guix and try
again.

Below is all I have on this bug so far:


# Guix

```
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 2ab321ca37d1c00c1540d78d587226d3d487b2d4
Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
```

```
$ guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
The following package will be upgraded:
   glibc-utf8-locales	2.27 → 2.27	/gnu/store/mbns811n696fl7g060cx6jqjh75mlj8i-glibc-utf8-locales-2.27

14 packages in profile
```

```
$ echo $GUIX_LOCPATH
/home/phf/.guix-profile/lib/locale
```

```
$ guix package -I rofi
rofi	1.5.1	out	/gnu/store/4g9m8lv9bqpcb7k4rvscyb7g5yga8zq2-rofi-1.5.1
```

# Rofi

```
$ rofi -v
Version: 1.5.1
```

rofi configuration: https://gist.github.com/phfrohring/237f89df2b2e2a7f25e5a01bf2549729

From: `$ G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /home/phf/.guix-profile/bin/rofi -combi-modi window,drun,run,ssh -theme solarized -font 'hack 10' -show combi -modi combi &> ~/rofi_logs/rofi_$(date +'%F-%k-%M-%S')`
To: [Logs](https://gist.github.com/phfrohring/a6d68a007377e8f1f2de73a6cb69583e)

But the logs becomes:
    `(process:12536): Rofi-WARNING **: 21:08:53.715: Failed to set locale.`

when called using the i3 shortcut `$mod+d` that calls the `trigger_rofi` script holding the line above: `$ G_MESSAGES …`


# i3

No compositor used.

```
$ i3 --moreversion 2>&-
Binary i3 version:  4.15 (2018-03-10) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
Running i3 version: 4.15 (2018-03-10) (pid 1394)o abort…)
Loaded i3 config: /home/phf/.config/i3/config (Last modified: Thu 11 Oct 2018 09:03:19 PM CEST, 3547 seconds ago)

The i3 binary you just called: /usr/bin/i3
The i3 binary you are running: i3
```

relevant line of i3 config: `bindsym --release $mod+d exec ~/bin/./trigger_rofi`

content of `~/bin/./trigger_rofi`:

```
#! /usr/bin/env bash
rofi -combi-modi window,drun,run,ssh -theme solarized -font 'hack 10' -show combi -modi combi
```

```
$ i3-msg shmlog on; i3-msg debuglog on
[{"success":true}]
[{"success":true}]



# type the keybinding that should trigger rofi

$ i3-dump-log >~/i3_logs/i3log-$(date +'%F-%k-%M-%S') 2>&1

$ i3-msg shmlog off; i3-msg debuglog off
[{"success":true}]
[{"success":true}]
```

[log gist](https://gist.github.com/phfrohring/f5556e14499b49ceaa8e1ba0276638a9)

Lines of the log that shows the executed command that does not work properly:

```
13/10/2018 11:04:54 - commands_parser.c:parse_command:265 - COMMAND: *exec ~/bin/./trigger_rofi*
13/10/2018 11:04:54 - commands.c:cmd_criteria_init:155 - Initializing criteria, current_match = 0x561b103e8100
13/10/2018 11:04:54 - commands.c:cmd_exec:1235 - should execute ~/bin/./trigger_rofi, no_startup_id = 0
13/10/2018 11:04:54 - startup id = i3/~|bin|.|trigger_rofi/1388-56-f02c_TIME27690841
13/10/2018 11:04:54 - executing: ~/bin/./trigger_rofi
```



# Linux distribution

```
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic
```



# Steps to reproduce

typing `$mod+d` won't trigger rofi.



# What behaviour you see

Nothing.



# What behaviour you expect to see

The same behaviour as when I execute: `$ ~/bin/./trigger_rofi` i.e. rofi to show up.


Many thanks!
PH