matplotlib is missing GSettings

rnhmjoj commented 7 years ago

Issue description

When opening the file picker of a matplotlib (gtk3 backend) window the process crashes with this error: GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system I think it needs wrapGAppsHook but I'm not really sure how that works.

Steps to reproduce

$ nix-shell -p 'pythonPackages.matplotlib.override {enableGtk3=true;}' --run 'python -c "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt; plt.plot([1,2,3],[4,5,6]); plt.show()"'

Technical details

NixOS version: 17.09pre106117.c90998d5cf

rnhmjoj commented 7 years ago

Reading https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/24880 I tried adding to the buildInputs wrapGAppsHook and gsettings_desktop_schemas but it didn't help. Anyone knows how to fix it?

mmahut commented 5 years ago

Any news on this issue?

rnhmjoj commented 5 years ago

Nothing new: It's still happening. Also the package probably has to be wrapped for #65399 . I have no idea how to to do that on a python library, though.

doronbehar commented 4 years ago

I've just solved this error in an end user application - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/84449 The solution is to use wrapGAppsHook which adds something like this to the wrapper:

export XDG_DATA_DIRS='/nix/store/nwksqszw0dakmizrrlql9pamcf39vnxg-gtk+3-3.24.14/share/gsettings-schemas/gtk+3-3.24.14:/nix/store/slmsmbyfgf1rqj9rp6s1y33cqaz8q203-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0/share/gsettings-schemas/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0:/nix/store/nwksqszw0dakmizrrlql9pamcf39vnxg-gtk+3-3.24.14/share/gsettings-schemas/gtk+3-3.24.14:/nix/store/slmsmbyfgf1rqj9rp6s1y33cqaz8q203-gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0/share/gsettings-schemas/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.34.0'${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+':'}$XDG_DATA_DIRS
export XDG_DATA_DIRS='/nix/store/92p57svcsqgwa5fgb8z9qg7m7r66nx7a-guvcview-2.0.6/share'${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+':'}$XDG_DATA_DIRS

To solve this issue in the context of using matplotlib is somewhat challenging because matplotlib is a library - what exactly would we wrap? https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/83321 is exactly what we need.

rnhmjoj commented 4 years ago

@doronbehar Sadly there is no way, yet. The situation will hopefully change once structured attributes are enabled in nixpkgs and declarative wrappers are implemented. See this issue #72074.

what exactly would we wrap? #83321 is exactly what we need.

Yes, I tried implementing a temporary solution with #83321 because this will take a while before it's usable. It needs some feedback and a lot of testing but it should be working.

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doronbehar commented 3 years ago

Still an issue.

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rnhmjoj commented 3 years ago

Still an issue.

nixos-discourse commented 2 years ago

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/jupyter-breaks-matplotlib/15468/2

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I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

rnhmjoj commented 2 years ago

Still an issue, sadly.

charmoniumQ commented 1 year ago

Is this blocked by RFC 0075?

rnhmjoj commented 1 year ago

Not really, it's possible to fix these issues without a unified wrapping mechanism. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/102949#issuecomment-1587237994

Artturin commented 1 year ago

some patching to make XDG_DATA_DIRS contain schemas before https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/a861b8af82cc4618e0a631e5eac5b4030b3f04a1/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3.py#L340 could help

jtojnar commented 1 year ago

I think the simplest solution would be hardcoding the schema path in GTK itself. We now have semi-automated patch generating tooling (see evolution-data-server package for an example), I just have not gotten around to applying it to GTK yet.

nixos-discourse commented 3 months ago

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/error-when-trying-to-use-pyqt5-backend-of-matplotlib/46065/4

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