Subject: Re: bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

From: Joshua Branson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:37:49 -0400

Jack Hill <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> wterm fails to start on the core-updates-frozen branch (commit
> ddbc3a6f4ca2605d8102aa659389300f97d715ac) in both sway and gnome wayland
> sessions:
>
> ```
> $ wterm
> wl_registry@2: error 0: invalid interface for global 11: have xdg_wm_base, wanted zxdg_shell_v6
> # wayland_create_context: No wl_drm global
> # wayland_create_context: No wl_shm global
> # wld_wayland_create_context: Could not initialize any of the specified implementations
> Can't create wayland context
> ```
>
> However, wterm seems to be unmaintained upstream [0], so maybe this is not
> somethint that we want to fix in Guix.

I vote that we remove wterm from guix.  It is still unmaintained at the
github link below.  And it doesn't ever run properly.

> [0] https://github.com/majestrate/wterm/issues/24
>
> Best,
> Jack