Re: Evolution fails to connect to CalDAV via TLS outside Gnome's environment

[Luis Felipe]

Hello again David, I managed to get it working.

On 28/02/25 16:18, Luis Felipe wrote:

On 27/02/25 14:05, David Lecompte wrote:

I am using Guix system with a sway session.


address book "CardDAV: Addresses". TLS support is not available" (not in
English, hope I am translating clearly enough).

When searching, I found
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2022-04/msg00038.html which
looks like the same problem.

Does anyone know how to use CalDAV with evolution outside of a GNOME
session?

In evolution, when going through the setup of a CalDAV (or CardDAV) account, the account is found but then I have a popup saying "Cannot connect to the

I'll try to reproduce your problem in a virtual machine using Sway alone.

  Failed to open calendar "CalDAV : somecalendar"




If you'd like to try the virtual machine (I was in guix f1810c8):

❶ Get the OS definition and a Sway configuration:

I configured Sway in a virtual machine. I couldn't reproduce the exact same error you are getting but got a similar one (among other errors and warnings):   Unable to connect to "somecalendar": Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying. I think that the missing package to make it work in my case was "gsettings-desktop-schemas", but "desktop-file-utils" and "gnome-keyring" (instead of the gnome-keyring-service-type) solved other problems as well. + https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/code/2025-03-01-guix-sway-evolution-caldav/os.scm + https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/code/2025-03-01-guix-sway-evolution-caldav/sway.config

❷ Create the virtual machine

  $ guix system vm os.scm
  /gnu/store/l1kiw3wma56wn6yvss2bpyz7s6ivpn3y-run-vm.sh

❸ Run it



❹ Log in with username "tester" and password "excuseme"
❺ Start sway using the sway configuration file

  sway --config sway.config

I'd recommend using Ctrl+Alt+G to make the VM grab mouse and keyboard input.



Good luck,

  /gnu/store/l1kiw3wma56wn6yvss2bpyz7s6ivpn3y-run-vm.sh -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci -m 2000M This configuration launches Qutebrowser in workspace 1 just in case you need to grab URLs to CalDAV things from the web. Rofi is available as the application launcher. You can display it with Alt+F2 or $mod+d.

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