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plantuml in pure environment does not find X11

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>, 46532 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46532: plantuml in pure environment does not find X11
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:11:53 +0100

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On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 13:52 +0100, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Dear Guix hackers,
> 
> when installing plantuml in a pure environment, it throws an java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':1' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

Is the environment variable XAUTHORITY set?
Compare the value inside the environment and outside the environment.

Perhaps "XAUTHORITY" should be added to %precious-variables in
guix/scripts/environment.scm.  An untested patch is attached,
I'll test it now.

Greetings,
Maxime.

[0001-scripts-preserve-XAUTHORITY-in-pure-environments.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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