Liliana Marie Prikler writes: > I am fairly certain that by default, dconf-editor does not crash when > using gnome-desktop-service-type (i.e. the "default" configuration). I'm afraid that it does. At least on my system it does. I use gnome-desktop-service-type. > Now fair enough, it might still break in the way you described *outside > of gnome*, but in any case, propagating inputs is no solution and in > this case, you're breaking cross-compilation to rely on a side effect. I understand that it is not an optimal solution. I didn't like it either, but I didn't find any other solution > The package you do want is most likely gsettings-desktop-schemas I have now tried the following: --- $ guix shell --pure gsettings-desktop-schemas dconf-editor $ dconf-editor (dconf-editor:4990): dbind-WARNING **: 11:46:30.355: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files (dconf-editor:4990): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:46:30.369: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system zsh: trace trap dconf-editor --- and --- $ guix shell gsettings-desktop-schemas dconf-editor $ dconf-editor (dconf-editor:5048): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:47:58.518: Settings schema 'ca.desrt.dconf-editor.Lib' is not installed zsh: trace trap dconf-editor --- Both resulting in an error. Yes the error is different but I'm not knowledgeable enough to fix this issue. > think it ought to be possible to fix dconf-editor without propagating That would be great! Regards, Maya