Lem does not launch with the sdl2 interface

Lem does not launch with the sdl2 interface

[Gabor Gero via]

Hello all,



I have installed lem with a simple guix install lem but trying to launch it via it's sdl2 frontend fails and launches the terminal version instead. Is this expected behaviour? Lem itself doesn't display any errors.

Re: Lem does not launch with the sdl2 interface

[Luis Felipe]

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Hi Gabor,

On 19/11/24 18:59, Gabor Gero via wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have installed lem with a simple guix install lem but trying to launch it via it's sdl2 frontend fails and launches the terminal version instead. Is this expected behaviour? Lem itself doesn't display any errors.

I don't know lem, but it seems to work for me trying it out in a Guix 
shell like this (using guix ac19ae3):

   guix shell lem
   lem -i sdl2

I see a window opens and the lem interface is clickable with the mouse.

One thing I noticed, though, is that the Getting started information 
fails to load:

   Couldn't execute "xdg-open": no such file or directory.


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Re: Lem does not launch with the sdl2 interface

[Luis Felipe]

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On 19/11/24 21:45, Luis Felipe wrote:
> Hi Gabor,
>
> On 19/11/24 18:59, Gabor Gero via wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have installed lem with a simple guix install lem but trying to 
>> launch it via it's sdl2 frontend fails and launches the terminal 
>> version instead. Is this expected behaviour? Lem itself doesn't 
>> display any errors.

I just tried with "guix install lem" and "lem -i sdl2" worked as well.

Something I noticed is that lem doesn't seem to provide a desktop entry, 
so it doesn't show up in the list of applications (in GNOME Shell, for 
example).


> I don't know lem, but it seems to work for me trying it out in a Guix 
> shell like this (using guix ac19ae3):
>
>   guix shell lem
>   lem -i sdl2
>
> I see a window opens and the lem interface is clickable with the mouse.
>
> One thing I noticed, though, is that the Getting started information 
> fails to load:
>
>   Couldn't execute "xdg-open": no such file or directory.

And this error is solved by installing "xdg-utils" in the same 
environment (it provides "xdg-open"). So:

   guix shell lem xdg-utils
   lem -i sdl2

And then clicking on "Getting started" will open a remote guide in the 
default web browser.



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