Hello everyone,
I am currently running Ubuntu 24.04.2 and I have set up home-manager to manage my dev environment. I am struggling to set up my config to run programs (kitty, alacritty, or wezterm) or a desktop environment such as hyprland that require graphic drivers (here an Nvidia GPU).
From what I understood, since it is a non-NixOS distribution, the drivers are managed by Ubuntu. I tried the nixGL solution but failed to run kitty for example. See below the output of nixGL kitty:
[0,119] [glfw error 65542]: EGL: Failed to get EGL display: Success
[0,124] Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/nix/store/8h3d079ngpr14q14icpjd6jz346ia7j6-kitty-0.39.0/bin/../lib/kitty/kitty/main.py", line 537, in main
_main()
File "/nix/store/8h3d079ngpr14q14icpjd6jz346ia7j6-kitty-0.39.0/bin/../lib/kitty/kitty/main.py", line 529, in _main
run_app(opts, cli_opts, bad_lines, talk_fd)
File "/nix/store/8h3d079ngpr14q14icpjd6jz346ia7j6-kitty-0.39.0/bin/../lib/kitty/kitty/main.py", line 262, in __call__
_run_app(opts, args, bad_lines, talk_fd)
File "/nix/store/8h3d079ngpr14q14icpjd6jz346ia7j6-kitty-0.39.0/bin/../lib/kitty/kitty/main.py", line 229, in _run_app
window_id = create_os_window(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: Failed to create GLFWwindo
You can find below a mininal version of my home-manager configuration.
flake.nix
{
inputs = {
# Specify the source of Home Manager and Nixpkgs.
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
home-manager = {
url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};
};
outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, ... }:
let
system = "x86_64-linux";
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
in {
homeConfigurations."dst" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
inherit pkgs;
modules = [ ./home.nix ];
};
};
}
home.nix:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
home.username = "dst";
home.homeDirectory = "/home/dst";
home.stateVersion = "24.11";
programs.kitty.enable = true;
programs.home-manager.enable = true;
}
Do you have any ideas how I should proceed ?
Thank you !