Hi! newbie #65536 here, I want to use Kate to edit my NixOS config, but I’m unable to do so because ktexteditor seems to be “incomplete”?
Normally in other distros it’d ask for my password when saving the file if it doesn’t have permissions to do so. That does not happen here though, a really generic error pops up and prints the following into the terminal (after enabling some QDebug flags)
kf.auth: Encountered error while checking action status, error code: PolkitQt1::Authority::E_CheckFailed "GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.kde.ktexteditor.katetextbuffer.savefile is not registered"
Which it’s true! There’s no org.kde.ktexteditor.katetextbuffer.policy inside of /run/current-system/sw/share/polkit-1/actions/ (which I think it’s the correct place), and I think that’s supposed to be included with the ktexteditor package (based on the file list from the arch repos)
I already have polkit enabled, sooo… am I missing something? Thanks!
PS: I know about sudoedit, but that doesn’t seem to save the file until I close Kate, which I sometimes forget to do + it’s kinda annoying
I don’t use kde / ktexteditor, but I was bored so I had a look. If you build the derivation you get the following:
nix-repl> :b pkgs.libsForQt5.ktexteditor
This derivation produced the following outputs:
bin -> /nix/store/j37kd4y776g52bsx3ppfjiflz5ia68rh-ktexteditor-5.107.0-bin
dev -> /nix/store/44pv25yizzzad458f0m61lcca6y22652-ktexteditor-5.107.0-dev
out -> /nix/store/dinvy8fk9h1lpcknpvlkvxbwr74vsyqz-ktexteditor-5.107.0
If you look at the bin derivation you’ll find
❯ ls /nix/store/j37kd4y776g52bsx3ppfjiflz5ia68rh-ktexteditor-5.107.0-bin/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.ktexteditor.katetextbuffer.policy
/nix/store/j37kd4y776g52bsx3ppfjiflz5ia68rh-ktexteditor-5.107.0-bin/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.ktexteditor.katetextbuffer.policy
So I am assuming that you 1. must install the .bin package and 2. you must enable polkit (security.polkit.enable = true;), and if both of these things have happened then auth hand off will work. That said I haven’t tried any of this because I don’t run any of that. Hopefully if this doesn’t get it working for you it at least points you in the right direction.
Yes! That worked! It took me a while to realize that I was adding the package to my user instead of environment.systemPackages:p, but when I did it correctly it worked without even rebooting
I’m encountering the same problem. I’ve added kdePackages.ktexteditor (which I think is the kde6 location of the package?) and kate to my environment.systemPackages and I’ve set security.polkit.enable = true; but this did not solve the problem.
I’ve only installed NixOS for the first time 2 days ago so I could very well be missing something easy, what am I missing?
This derivation produced the following outputs:
debug -> /nix/store/xlc8x36p0897ilqvgn54jh81qpggg8gl-ktexteditor-6.0.0-debug
dev -> /nix/store/fqa4r091c6lfkyrmrkjs6bhwzbn9wm44-ktexteditor-6.0.0-dev
out -> /nix/store/w7q7gj9flrci1skgpfcyqf470kx358rc-ktexteditor-6.0.0
With the out package containing the necessary file
It seems to be working for me, maybe you’re still using the Qt5 version of Kate, the Qt6 version seems to be available only under kdePackages.kate, not sure why they didn’t replace the old one
