* Removed the use of gnome-screensaver (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/issues/18)
* Flashback's menu-related environment variables are now set in the gnome3.nix module instead of gnome-panel to resolve dependency conflict.
Previously if ~/.background-image wasn't present, the background would
be set to black, which would override what the user could
set in e.g. services.xserver.windowManager.i3.extraSessionCommands
Also cleanup a bit, we enabled gnome-settings-daemon even when using elementary-settings-daemon.
I wanted the nixos module ascribe the defaults, not these lists in pkgs.
The upstream session files display managers use have no concept of sessions being composed from
desktop manager and window manager. To be able to set upstream session files as default
session, we need a single option. Having two different ways to set default session would be confusing,
though, so we decided to deprecate the old method.
We also created separate script for each session, just like we already had a separate desktop
file for each one, and started using displayManager.sessionPackages mechanism to make the
session handling more uniform.
There's two ways of providing graphical sessions now:
- `displayManager.session` via. `desktopManager.session` and
`windowManager.session`
- `displayManager.sessionPackages`
`sessionPackages` doesn't make a distinction between desktop and window
managers. This makes selecting a session provided by a package using
`desktopManager.default` nonsensical.
We therefor introduce `displayManager.defaultSession` which can select a session
from either `displayManager.session` or `displayManager.sessionPackages`.
It will default to `desktopManager.default + windowManager.default` as before.
If the dm default is "none" it will select the first provided session from
`sessionPackages`.
A centralized list for these renames is not good because:
- It breaks disabledModules for modules that have a rename defined
- Adding/removing renames for a module means having to find them in the
central file
- Merge conflicts due to multiple people editing the central file
When session debugging was enabled in GNOME but not in Pantheon
{
services.xserver = {
desktopManager.pantheon = {
enable = true;
};
desktopManager.gnome3 = {
enable = true;
debug = true;
};
};
}
it caused a conflict:
error: The option `environment.sessionVariables.GNOME_SESSION_DEBUG' has conflicting definitions, in `<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/pantheon.nix>' and `<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/gnome3.nix>'.
The SLIM project is abandoned and their last release was in 2013.
Because of this it poses a security risk to systems, no one is working
on it or picked up maintenance. It also lacks compatibility with systemd
and logind sessions. For users, there liikely isn't anything like slim
that's as lightweight in terms of dependencies.
When we did the revert of adding gnome-flashback to systemd.packages [0]
I forgot to test with other display managers. If we use GDM with gnome-flashback
it appears it doesn't try to fallback to non-systemd startup and always fails and
starts the regular gnome-session. So adding gnome-flashback to systemd.packages
was perfectly fine, but we did forgot one detail. We need systemd targets for the
customSessions which is added using mkSystemdTargetForWm in the gnome-
flashback package.
[0]: 42f567b30d
I've noticed a similar issue in Pantheon, without this
sound theme installed there's no system sounds.
I believe it's because the gnome theme and the pantheon
theme inherit this one.
This reverts commit 60aedadc59.
Using tests from #71212 I am now unable to reproduce there being issues
with starting the default metacity flashback session without this.
We create a wrapper which launches gnome-shell with the correct environment and
cap_sys_nice.
We can then override gnome-shell-wayland.service to use this wrapper.
NOTE: We need to force clear the environment, because the defaults aren't good
for user services. That should probably be fixed.
This session would fail to start because we didn't have it in systemd.packages
(as we've switched to systemd gnome-session).
Haven't tested custom sessions.
xfce4-volumed-pulse is not abandoned, but is superseded by a panel
plugin which is not available when not using the desktop.
Fixes: volume up/down keys support
- register gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon services.
- gnome-shell is already registered due to having a xdg portal
- manually specify that gsd is wanted by gnome-session
(systemd.packages doesn't pick the .wants directories for some reason)
Adds:
- gnome-color-manager
- services.avahi
It appears that GeoClue requires its daemon and IIRC has
been default enabled in other distros for a while.
- orca
It's the default screen-reader.
This introduces the following options under the services.gnome3 namespace:
* core-os-services.enable
* core-shell.enable
* core-utilities.enable
* games.enable
The first three are all default enabled by gnome3.enable
and their purpose is to make gnome3 more flexable for users
usecases. In the case of core-utilities and games, it allows
users to easily switch on the default gnome3 applications
and games packages. Previously we had lists in gnome-3/default.nix
but they weren't visible to the user. By having options we have
generated documentation and an interface.
For some reason nm-applet has to be running for an authentication
dialog to be spawned by wingpanel-indicator-network.
This also fixes storing NetworkManager secrets in the keyring, but this
is still broken because we lack the proper PAM configuration.
Fix the following error when opening Background panel in GNOME Settings:
URI '/nix/store/…-simple-dark-gray-2016-02-19/share/artwork/gnome/nix-wallpaper-simple-dark-gray.png' is invalid
This module obsoletes services.gnome3.gnome-terminal-server
as that's a confusing option for users, and sounds internal.
It's much simpler to have a gnome-terminal module.
When bluetooth is enabled, we install bluedevil, but
its applet cannot work without the qml components in
bluez-qt.
Superseedes #65440 that failed to address the issue.
Introduce a new .plasma5.phononBackend option. Default value
"gstreamer" installs the same packages as before. "vlc" installs
only the vlc phonon backend.
This enhances #61423, which removed the gating of desktop-managers from
being linked to the xserver's state.
This, though, brought in xterm into all systems, even those without X
servers.
This change sets the *default* of the xterm desktop-manager to the state
of the xserver, keeping it enabled by default as a sane fallback.
The xterm desktop-manager can still be enabled or disabled as needed,
without it being affected by xserver's state.
We don't need gnome-bluetooth because its executables
path is already hardcoded into the contractor file, as that's
the only place it is needed.
Don't think we need gnome-power-manager either.
Also add programs like geary to removePackagesByName.
- Remove xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu kbuildsycoca5. Not sure why we
need it but it is a pretty big failure if it exists.
See issue #56176.
- plasma: clear ksycoca cache before building
This is needed to pick up on software removed since the last cache
update. Otherwise it hangs around as zombies forever (or until the
cache is cleared).
- Add the above + the icon cache cleanup to plasmaSetup
This will be run for the logged in user on each nixos-rebuild.
Unfortunately this only works if you are managing software through
nixos-rebuild (nix-env users need to run this manually, otherwise
log out and log back in).
Switch from slim to lightdm as the display-manager.
If plasma5 is used as desktop-manager use sdddm.
If gnome3 is used as desktop-manager use gdm.
Based on #12516
The wallpaper used is *structurally compatible* with the other one,
meaning that the logo is at the same location, and not bigger.
It has one drawback: the logo is brighter, which clashes with the grub
usage. This is to be fixed with new options in grub.
The default session might be found in `extraSessionFilePackages`, but it's not
viable to detect at evaluation time, so emit a warning.
In LightDM instead of checking `defaultSessionName` against
`displayManager.session.names` we rely on the assertions in
`desktopManager` and `windowMananger` and just check that there's at least one
default set. The second assertion could never actually be triggered.
Pass gnome-session to extraSessionFilePackages, remove unnecessary environment variables, move the rest out of old session option, and then drop the option.
To update the plasma start menu `kbuildsyscoca5` needs to be executed.
There are several people complaining about missing applications in their
plasma start menu.
This patch adds a activationScript for plasma, that runs
`kbuildsyscoca5` for each user that has `isNormalUser` == `true`.
Fixes issue #33231 and makes it possible to enable Plasma and KDE at the same time.
Previously, this worked like this:
- The gdk-pixbuf package comes with a cache file covering the modules bundled
with gdk-pixbuf.
- The librsvg package comes with a cache covering modules from gdk-pixbuf as
well as librsvg.
- plasma5 and xfce modules set the environment variable GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE
to the one from librsvg, so that SVG was supported in addition to the
formats supported by gdk-pixbuf. However if both were enabled a configuration
conflict would result (despite setting to the same value).
While this sort of worked (ignoring the conflict which perhaps could be hacked
around), it is unscalable and a hack, as there would be a real problem when one
wanted to add a third package that supports additional image formats.
A new NixOS module (gdk-pixbuf) is added with a configuration option
(modulePackages) that other modules use to request specific packages to be
included in the loaders cache. When any package is present in the list, the
module generates a system-wide loaders cache which includes the requested
packages (and always gdk-pixbuf itself), and sets the environment variable
GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE to point to the generated cache file.
The plasma5 and xfce modules are updated to add librsvg to modulePackages
instead of setting GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE.
Note that many packages create wrappers that set GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE,
some directly to the one from librsvg. Therefore this change does not
change the existing hack in the librsvg package which ensures that
file is generated. This change aims only to solve the conflict in the
global environent variable configuration.
toPath has confusing semantics and is never necessary; it can always
either just be omitted or replaced by pre-concatenating `/.`. It has
been marked as "!!! obsolete?" for more than 10 years in a C++
comment, hopefully removing it will let us properly deprecate and,
eventually, remove it.
The original idea behind this change (described in ticket #11064) was to
improve the assertions to avoid that users of the X server accidentally
forget to configure a DM or WM.
However this caused several issues with setups that require X, but no DM
or WM. The keymap testcases became instable as well as now disabling DMs
needs to be done explicitly.
(see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/31268#issuecomment-347080036)
In the end the idea behind the change and #11064 was obviously a
mistake, so reverting it completely for now should be fine.
Currently broken on NixOS due to hardcoded modprobe binary path (see
bug #30756 from Oct 2017), no activity on a proposed fix for months.
As the protocol is terribly broken anyways, let's better remove it
completely, and not talk about anymore ;-)
Closes#30756.
mate-control-center depends on mate-settings-daemon, but the later needs
gsettings schemas provided by the former. To fix this the gsettings schema
path from mate-control-center is added to XDG_DATA_DIRS at session
startup.
(originally from f9415cb621)
feh is used to set background image for desktop managers that do not
support it directly, however there is no need to include it in PATH.
Fixes#17450.
Now there are separate `xfce4.xfce4mixer_pulse` and `xfce4.xfcevolumed_pulse` attributes for PulseAudio versions of these packages, instead of relying on Nixpkgs option. Mind that xfce4-volumed and xfce4-volumed-pulse are actually two separate programs without much overlap.
For some reason, the GNOME 3.26 update broke the overrides. It turns
out the overrides now need to come before the overridden schemas in the
XDG_DATA_DIRS variable. This is not possible in general due to applications
prefixing the variable (e.g. in wrapGAppsHook).
To fix this, a new environment variable NIX_GSETTINGS_OVERRIDES_DIR
was introduced. It has greater priority than XDG_DATA_DIRS but lower
than GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR. A separate variable was chosen in order not
to block the built-in one for users.
For some reason, the GNOME 3.26 update broke the overrides. It turns
out the overrides now need to come before the overriden schemas in the
XDG_DATA_DIRS variable. This is not possible in general due to applications
prefixing the variable (e.g. in wrapGAppsHook).
To fix this, a new environment variable NIX_GSETTINGS_OVERRIDES_DIR
was introduced. It has greater priority than XDG_DATA_DIRS but lower
than GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR. A separate variable was chosen in order not
to block the built-in one for users.
This reverts commit 93c54acf97.
This reopens#30517 @nbp @Ma27
Breaking people's config for this is hardly reasonable as is. If it
absolutely cannot be avoided, at the very least, we need to provide
clear instructions on what people need to upgrade in their config. I
actually had to bisect to the commit, to even find out what property I
should change or define, as the error message was useless. It didn't
even mention a property name.
Discussion on the PR seems to be ongoing, so I'm reverting this, so we
don't break people's systems on unstable.
