Hello Rutger and all, Our Xpra package seems to not be usable directly without installing additional items:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix environment --ad-hoc xpra --pure -- xpra start :100 Warning: Xorg binary not found, assuming the wrapper is needed! Entering daemon mode; any further errors will be reported to: /run/user/1000/xpra/:100.log $ cat /run/user/1000/xpra/:100.log 2018-11-09 14:37:42,986 Error: cannot enable SSH socket upgrades: 2018-11-09 14:37:42,986 No module named paramiko 2018-11-09 14:37:42,987 cannot access python uinput module: 2018-11-09 14:37:42,987 No module named uinput 2018-11-09 14:37:42,995 Error adding xauth entry for :100 2018-11-09 14:37:42,995 using command "xauth -f /home/ludo/.Xauthority add :100 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7c2c66d9295545cfb1c27b1109b4b54e": [mi] Extension "Composite" is not recognized 2018-11-09 14:37:42,995 [Errno 2] No such file or directory [mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled: [mi] Generic Event Extension [mi] MIT-SHM [mi] XTEST [mi] XINERAMA [mi] XFIXES [mi] RENDER [mi] RANDR [mi] COMPOSITE [mi] DAMAGE [mi] MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [mi] DOUBLE-BUFFER [mi] RECORD [mi] DPMS [mi] X-Resource [mi] XVideo [mi] XVideo-MotionCompensation [mi] GLX No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified No protocol specified --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- On a foreign distro I see we’re also lacking a reference to ‘dbus-launch’: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [courtes@devel13 ~]$ guix environment --ad-hoc xpra --pure -- xpra start :100 Warning: Xorg binary not found, assuming the wrapper is needed! Entering daemon mode; any further errors will be reported to: /run/user/10218/xpra/:100.log [courtes@devel13 ~]$ cat /run/user/10218/xpra/:100.log 2018-11-09 15:10:06,064 Error: cannot enable SSH socket upgrades: 2018-11-09 15:10:06,064 No module named paramiko 2018-11-09 15:10:06,066 cannot access python uinput module: 2018-11-09 15:10:06,066 No module named uinput 2018-11-09 15:10:06,079 Error adding xauth entry for :100 2018-11-09 15:10:06,080 using command "xauth -f /home/courtes/.Xauthority add :100 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 9519cb23f6a348eda7f068d9317a664c": 2018-11-09 15:10:06,080 [Errno 2] No such file or directory [mi] Extension "Composite" is not recognized [mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled: [mi] Generic Event Extension [mi] MIT-SHM [mi] XTEST [mi] XINERAMA [mi] XFIXES [mi] RENDER [mi] RANDR [mi] COMPOSITE [mi] DAMAGE [mi] MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [mi] DOUBLE-BUFFER [mi] RECORD [mi] DPMS [mi] X-Resource [mi] XVideo [mi] XVideo-MotionCompensation [mi] GLX 2018-11-09 15:10:06,472 Warning: some of the sockets are in an unknown state: 2018-11-09 15:10:06,473 /home/courtes/.xpra/devel13-100 2018-11-09 15:10:06,473 please wait as we allow the socket probing to timeout 2018-11-09 15:10:12,502 created unix domain socket: /home/courtes/.xpra/devel13-100 /gnu/store/rbrandv7anzjxqkr40d7fkanzssslk4b-bash-minimal-4.4.19/bin/sh: dbus-launch: command not found dbus-launch failed to start using command 'dbus-launch --close-stderr': exit code is 127 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thoughts? Thanks in advance, Ludo’.