Espanso app -> option not working for me

Help
1

Hello Nix Wizards

I installed the Espanso app in NixOS 22.05 and the option to start “espanso daemon”.
Somehow the daemon will not start and I have to do it manually each reboot.

Here’s the concerning part of my /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:

 users.users.me = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" "libvirtd" "kvm" "scanner" "lp" ];
    packages = with pkgs; [
      vimHugeX
      firefox
      thunderbird-102
      espanso
      copyq
      keepassxc
      joplin-desktop
      virt-manager
    ];
 };

services.espanso.enable = true;

the app is to find here: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=espanso

the option here: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=22.05&show=services.espanso.enable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=espanso

the option is declared as such:

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

with lib;
let cfg = config.services.espanso;
in {
  meta = { maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ numkem ]; };

  options = {
    services.espanso = { enable = options.mkEnableOption "Espanso"; };
  };

  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
    systemd.user.services.espanso = {
      description = "Espanso daemon";
      serviceConfig = {
        ExecStart = "${pkgs.espanso}/bin/espanso daemon";
        Restart = "on-failure";
      };
      wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
    };

    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.espanso ];
  };
}

Would be lovely to get a hint! As I wouldn’t want to live without this great application!

Thank you

2

While I don’t have the answer to your issue, I just wanted to point out that the module itself sets environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.espanso ];, as modules generally do, so doing that in your own config is redundant.

1 Like
3

thank you tejing, that is some good information already!

4

It should start with default.target according to the systemd unit, so what does the output of systemctl --user status default.target show?

1 Like
5

Seems to be active:

● default.target - Main User Target
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/default.target; static)
     Active: active since Mon 2022-09-19 21:05:02 CEST; 2min 39s ago
      Until: Mon 2022-09-19 21:05:02 CEST; 2min 39s ago
       Docs: man:systemd.special(7)

Starting Espanso in the terminal with “espanso daemon” does work!