Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 83, Issue 10

[Peter Polidoro]

GTK+ comes with broadwayd, which lets you use the browser to 
render the
GUI.  Here’s a quick example:

  guix shell gtk+:bin -- broadwayd :5 &
  GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 guix shell abiword -- 
  abiword

Then visit http://127.0.0.1:8085/ in your browser.

This is really interesting, thank you!

When I try to run this, however, I get the error:

$ guix shell gtk+:bin -- broadwayd :5 & GDK_BACKEND=broadway 
BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:5 guix shell abiword -- abiword

[1] 4066
Listening on /run/user/1000/broadway6.socket

(abiword:4094): Clutter-Gtk-ERROR **: 13:31:52.255: *** 
Unsupported backend.

$ guix describe --format=channels
(list (channel
       (name 'guix)
       (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)
       (branch "master")
       (commit
         "3657b4daeafab8d3935191d57653b8331e395897")
       (introduction
         (make-channel-introduction
           "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
           (openpgp-fingerprint
             "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 
             54FA")))))