Hi, On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 18:38, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > for example, "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc pavucontrol -- pavucontrol" > gives me an error: > No protocol specified > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection > refused I do not experiment this error. > Similarly, "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc gnubik -- gnubik" gives me an > error: > No protocol specified > > (gnubik:29707): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:03:28.753: cannot open display: :1 I do not experiment this error. > "guix environment --pure --ad-hoc gedit -- gedit": > No protocol specified > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused > > (org.gnome.gedit:31542): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:08:07.401: cannot open display: > :1 Instead I experiment this warning: (org.gnome.gedit:19087): dconf-WARNING **: 20:31:27.734: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process ?dbus-launch? (No such file or directory) All the best, simon