Opening url from terminal fails. Error on seperate thread

Nyxt
1

Hi, I am trying to control nyxt from a terminal.
In my config I have this;

(define-configuration browser
  (
   (remote-execution-p t)))

nyxt -r -q -e '(make-window (make-buffer :url “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato”))'
[13:42:39] Probing remote instance listening to /run/user/1000/nyxt/nyxt.socket.

Console says:

<INFO> [13:42:39] External evaluation request: "(make-window (make-buffer :url “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato”))"
<WARN> [13:42:39] Warning: Error on separate thread: Package “HTTPS does not exist. Stream: #&lt;dynamic-extent STRING-INPUT-STREAM (unavailable) from &quot;(make-wi...&quot;&gt;
2

I can’t reproduce.

What’s the output of nyxt --system-information? How did you install Nyxt?

3

I think I installed from aur. I tried guix but it had very old version and I couldn’t figure out how to update it.

Nyxt version: 3.9.0
Renderer: GI-GTK
Operating system kernel: Linux 6.5.7-arch1-1
Lisp implementation: SBCL 2.3.8 (Dynamic space size: 3221225472)
Features: (:NYXT-GI-GTK :NYXT-GTK :NYXT-GI-GTK :NYXT-GTK :NYXT-3.9 :NYXT-3 :NYXT-3.9.0
:CLIPBOARD-CONTENT-METHOD :SWANK :SLYNK :PLUMP-UTF-32 :PARENSCRIPT :NSYMBOLS
:FSET-EXT-STRINGS :SBCL+SAFE-STANDARD-READTABLE :NAMED-READTABLES :GLOBAL-VARS
:CL-FAD :LPARALLEL :21BIT-CHARS :CUSTOM-HASH-TABLE-NATIVE :CL-PPCRE-UNICODE
:CL-UNICODE :CL-JSON-DOUBLE-FLOAT-IS-SUBSUMED
:CL-JSON-SINGLE-FLOAT-IS-SUBSUMED :CHUNGA :FLEXI-STREAMS :CL-PPCRE :WEBKIT2
:WEBKIT-2.42.1 :WEBKIT-2.42 :WEBKIT-2 :WEBKIT2-CORS-ALLOWLIST
:WEBKIT2-PASTE-PLAINTEXT :WEBKIT2-TRACKING :WEBKIT2-MUTE :WEBKIT2-EMOJI
:WEBKIT2-MEDIA :WEBKIT2-SANDBOXING :GTK-3-22 :GTK-3-20 :GTK-3-18 :GTK-3-16
:GTK-3-14 :GTK-3-12 :GTK-3-10 :GTK-3-8 :GTK-3-6 :GTK-3-4 :GTK :GDK-3-22
:GDK-3-20 :GDK-3-18 :GDK-3-16 :GDK-3-14 :GDK-3-12 :GDK-3-10 :GDK-3-8 :GDK-3-6
:GDK-3-4 :CAIRO-1-10 :CAIRO-1-12 :GDK-PIXBUF :CLOSER-MOP :GLIB-2-30 :GLIB-2-32
:GLIB-2-34 :GLIB-2-36 :GLIB-2-38 :GLIB-2-40 :GLIB-2-42 :GLIB-2-44 :GLIB-2-46
:GLIB-2-48 :GLIB-2-50 :GLIB-2-52 :GLIB-2-54 :GLIB-2-56 :GLIB-2-58 :GLIB
:BORDEAUX-THREADS :LPARALLEL.WITH-CLTL2 :LPARALLEL.WITH-CAS
:LPARALLEL.WITH-STEALING-SCHEDULER :SPLIT-SEQUENCE
CFFI-FEATURES:FLAT-NAMESPACE CFFI-FEATURES:X86-64 CFFI-FEATURES:UNIX :CFFI
CFFI-SYS::FLAT-NAMESPACE ALEXANDRIA::SEQUENCE-EMPTYP :FAST-IO-SV :FAST-IO
:CL-JSON-CLOS :CL-JSON :SBCL-USES-SB-ROTATE-BYTE CHIPZ-SYSTEM:GRAY-STREAMS
:THREAD-SUPPORT :ASDF3.3 :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-UNIX
:NON-BASE-CHARS-EXIST-P :ASDF-UNICODE :ARENA-ALLOCATOR :X86-64 :GENCGC :64-BIT
:ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :ELF :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :LINUX :LITTLE-ENDIAN
:PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES :SB-CORE-COMPRESSION :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS
:SB-THREAD :SB-UNICODE :SBCL :UNIX)

ASDF version: 3.3.1
ASDF registries: (NYXT-SOURCE-REGISTRY ENVIRONMENT-SOURCE-REGISTRY)
Critical dependencies: (/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-cffi-gtk/gtk/cl-cffi-gtk.asd
/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-gobject-introspection/cl-gobject-introspection.asd
/build/nyxt/src/_build/cl-webkit/webkit2/cl-webkit2.asd)

Guix version:

4

I have no clue honestly. Arch’s distribution of Nyxt isn’t maintained by us. This does work properly on Guix.

Try to gather more information by evaluating other commands.

6

As a test I tried

(copy-to-clipboard (render-url (url (current-buffer))))

That worked. I also tried
nyxt -r -q -e '(make-window (make-buffer ))'
And that opens a new nyxt window with whats looks like the same state as original. I assume that is the expected behaviour for that.

7

It is indeed. Are you sure that you’re typing nyxt --remote --quit --eval '(make-window (make-buffer :url "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato"))'? I see some weird quotes in your version. Copy from my message.

8

Ok great, that fixed it. I thought I was going mad… actually, maybe I am… I don’t think I ever knew there where two types of double quotes in the world, the normal one " and this other one “ . It took me a while to spot that difference! Thanks for your patience.

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