Many of the graphical container examples don't work. For example, take guix shell --container --network --no-cwd ungoogled-chromium \ --preserve='^DISPLAY$' -- chromium from (guix)Invoking guix shell. It fails with: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified [1:1:0127/163058.718097:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(238)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY [1:1:0127/163058.718126:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting. To make it work, "XAUTHORITY" needs to be preserved and exposed: guix shell --container --network --no-cwd ungoogled-chromium --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$' --expose=/tmp/.X11-unix --expose="$XAUTHORITY" -- chromium For another example, take "eolie" from "(guix)Invoking guix environment": guix environment --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --container --network \ --expose=/etc/machine-id \ --expose=/etc/ssl/certs/ \ --share=$HOME/.local/share/eolie/=$HOME/.local/share/eolie/ \ --ad-hoc eolie nss-certs dbus -- eolie it fails with Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Preserving XAUTHORITY and exposing $XAUTHORITY makes it actually start, though the created window is invisible. Exposing /sys makes the window actually visible, albeit with (WebKitWebProcess:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:40:32.008: cannot open display: :1 Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused warnings. An additional issue, is that the examples -- even after adjustment -- stop working with network-less containers, e.g. guix environment --preserve='^DISPLAY|XAUTHORITY$' --container --expose=/etc/machine-id --expose=/etc/ssl/certs/ --expose="$XAUTHORITY" --share=$HOME/.local/share/eolie/=$HOME/.local/share/eolie/ --expose=/sys --expose=/sys/bus --ad-hoc eolie nss-certs dbus -- eolie fails with Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (org.gnome.Eolie:1): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:41:53.524: cannot open display: :1. (I discovered this with the FHS container example in https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-filesystem-hierarchy-standard-comes-to-guix-containers/ -- it was a no-network application I tried out, so I left out the --network.) To fix this, I had to add --expose=/tmp/.X11-unix. It should be documented how to make network-less containers for graphical applications -- nowhere in the manual or FHS blog post is /tmp/.X11-unix mentioned. Greetings, Maxime.