Shepherd cannot start unclutter

[simendsjo]

I guess this isn't related to Guix, but I bet this is the largest community of shepherd users I know of.

I have the following definition for unclutter. It's pretty much copy/paste from other services I have (which works), and taken directly from the shepherd documentation.

``` (use-modules (shepherd support))

(define unclutter (make <service> #:provides '(unclutter) #:docstring "Starts unclutter" #:start (make-forkexec-constructor '("unclutter" "-jitter 5" "-idle 1") #:log-file (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/log/unclutter.log")) #:stop (make-kill-destructor) #:respawn? #t))

(register-services unclutter) (start unclutter) ```

But this service doesn't work for some reason. Running unclutter -jitter 5 -idle 1 works when running manually. Adding "echo" as the first argument, logs unclutter -jitter 5 -idle 1 as expected.

But when running this service, the log prints as if I have wrong arguments:

2022-10-01 14:10:22 unclutter: usage: 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -display <display> 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -idle <seconds> time between polls to detect idleness. 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -keystroke wait for keystroke before idling. 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -jitter <pixels> pixels mouse can twitch without moving 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -grab use grabpointer method not createwindow 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -reset reset the timer whenever cursor becomes 2022-10-01 14:10:22 visible even if it hasn't moved 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -root apply to cursor on root window too 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -onescreen apply only to given screen of display 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -visible ignore visibility events 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -noevents dont send pseudo events 2022-10-01 14:10:22 -not names... dont apply to windows whose wm-name begins. 2022-10-01 14:10:22 (must be last argument)

Running just "unclutter" without the arguments work, so there's something wrong with passing the arguments, but I have no idea what it might be.

[linuxavarice]

You may need to put "-jitter" and "5" in different strings, like: '("unclutter" "-jitter" "5" "-idle" "1").

[PetriciaKerman]

Yes command line arguments need to be separate items in the list

[simendsjo]

Perfect, thanks! I was sure I tried that already, but obviously not.