Hi Daniel, On Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 7:42 AM, Daniel Meißner wrote: > > Also, trying the following example from Guix manual, the browser does not start: > > > > EXAMPLE: > > $ guix shell --container --network --no-cwd ungoogled-chromium > > --preserve='^DISPLAY$' -- chromium > > Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified > > This example only works on foreign distros. See the mails [1-3] on > help-guix. However, this seems to be known much longer [4]. However, > IMHO it is not really documented in the manual. Maybe it's time to do > something about it since this question has now come up three times in > the last two months. I am willing to write something but I do not feel > compentent enough since I don't really know much about X. Somehow I missed those messages... Daniel, I think it would be good to report the issue to https://issues.guix.gnu.org/ with the information in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-12/msg00088.html, and provide the command below as a proposed replacement, which I can confirm launches chromium in Guix System. I think that would be a start at least. Would you like to do that, or should I do it? > Concerning the chromium example, for me this works: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > guix shell --container --network --no-cwd ungoogled-chromium \ > --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$' \ > --expose=$XAUTHORITY -- chromium > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Maybe for your example (I couldn't check since I didn't find any package > called mazo or python-mazo) this would work: Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that "mazo" is an application I'm writing. It's not in Guix yet. > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > guix shell -C --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$' \ > --expose=$XAUTHORITY > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Unfortunately, this didn't work. I got the same result as before. Daniel, thanks for taking a look at this.