How can I start another shell process inside of a guix shell container?

Hello, I'm using guix shell --container --emulate-fhs --network for development. I need to run 2 processes, neither of which can be a background process. What's a good way to spawn a new terminal/shell. Do I need to include the entirety of xorg in the container? Thanks for the help Gabor

Re: Python channels for all versions of python

Hello Fernando, On 2025-03-11 20:14, Fernando Martínez González wrote: Hi all! I am looking for a channel (or an alternative way) that has all python versions (3.7, 3.8, ... etc). My idea is to use this for development purposes, testing my package in many different python versions. Any recomen

Re: WebRTC screen sharing under Sway in Guix-packaged browsers

Hi Arnaud, I managed to get it working based on your description. Here are a few observations that may be of interest: Arnaud Daby-Seesaram writes: > Hi, > > I am not an expert at Wayland (at all), but my current Sway > configuration works for screen sharing (I have just made a test in > Librew

Re: Come speak at the Guix Social meetup

On 4 Jun, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > On 2024-06-04 10:19, Steve George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We're looking for speakers - of any level - to give talks at the Guix > > online meetup. We're a small, friendly group at all levels of experience. > > Talks can be about anything Guix associated, for exa

Re: Come speak at the Guix Social meetup

On 4 Jun, Nils Landt wrote: > > Steve George hat am 04.06.2024 10:19 CEST geschrieben: > > > > - Something mad, interesting or curious! > > I built a home service for systemd. It is currently unpublished, but I could > demo it, and publish the WIP version. > > Not sure if there's enough intere

Re: Preliminary questions before try guix

Hi Carlo, On 3 Feb, Carlo Ascani via wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have some preliminary questions before even try to use guix. > > My use case will be: > > - Use guix on a foreign distro (Debian 12) > - Use it especially to create isolated development environment [1] > > My questions: > > -

RE: Failed to initialize accelerated iGPU/dGPU framebuffer sharing: Not hardware accelerated

$ eglinfo GBM platform: kmsro: driver missing kmsro: driver missing eglinfo: eglInitialize failed Wayland platform: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen eglinfo: eglInitialize failed X11 platform: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen eglinfo: eglInitialize failed Device

Re: guix home: error: open-fdes-at: Not a directory

Hi Benjamin, The "~HOME" looks wrong. — Ian On March 11, 2025 8:14:13 PM PDT, Benjamin Slade wrote: >Hi Guix, > >On a reinstalled system, my Guix Home is now unhappy. Doing a `guix home >reconfigure <...>', it gets to `Finished updating symlinks.' and then has >`guix home: error: open-fdes

Re: Come speak at the Guix Social meetup

On 5 Jun, Artyom V. Poptsov wrote: > Hello! > > I can give an online talk about Guile-SSH[1] as it is used by GNU Guix, > if you're interested. > > Although I have never done any talks in English, I think it'll be an > interesting experience. > > References: > 1. https://github.com/artyom-popts

Re: How to install Python libraries under python-next?

Gary Johnson writes: >> Hi folks, >> >> I ran across a situation today in which I needed a newer version of Python >> than what is provided via the `python` package in Guix main (version 3.10.7). >> >> Fortunately, Guix does have a `python-next` package (version 3.12.2) that is >> sufficientl

Re: How can I start another shell process inside of a guix shell container?

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:22:52 +0100 Gabor Gero via wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I'm using guix shell --container --emulate-fhs --network for > development. I need to run 2 processes, neither of which can be a > background process. What's a good way to spawn a new terminal/shell. > Do I need to include t

Re: How to install Python libraries under python-next?

On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 9:04 AM, Tracker wrote: > > > Gary Johnson lambdatro...@disroot.org writes: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I ran across a situation today in which I needed a newer version of > > > Python than what is provided via the `python` package in Guix main > >

Re: after removing pidgin and gajim it wants to build them again during updating packages

Hi Guix, it is very strange, after: gfp@Tuxedo ~$ guix package --do-not-upgrade=farstream --do-not-upgrade=gajim --do-not-upgrade=pidgin -u it wants to build the derivations: farstream, gajim, pidgin ???: I have removed gajim, pidgin as I wrote earlier. substitute: looking for substitutes o

Re: MATE desktop

Hi Guix, I installed Trisquel with MATE Desktop in a qemu/virtual machine. I checked if in Caja, the file manager in MATE, it is possible to change the background. In the Menu bar it is the second option: "edit" Then choose "backgrounds/emblems" (almost on the bottom of the possibilities)

Gnome "oh no something has gone wrong..."

Hi, I'm on guix system with Gnome and Wayland. After a guix pull, then guix package -u then guix system reconfigure, I went from gnome 44 to gnome 46 and from linux 6.12 to linux 6.13. After rebooting and connecting to my session, the following message appears after about one minutes: "oh no s

Re: How to install Python libraries under python-next?

Simon Tournier writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 17:51, Gary Johnson wrote: > >> Okay, so it looks like all of the libraries I wanted were still built >> against the `python` package because it is included by the >> `python-build-system`, which is used in all of their package >> definitio