I tried xfce once a couple months ago and haven’t been able to get the mouse in the wallpaper to go away.
Currently rolling exwm
, same problem xmonad, not a problem on gnome or kde.
services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.extraConfig = "background = <photo in my flake tree>";
seems like a good idea, and my photo flashes for a second at login before the mouse takes back over.
╰─>$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
[greeter]
theme-name = Adwaita-dark
icon-theme-name = Adwaita-dark
cursor-theme-name = Adwaita-dark
cursor-theme-size = 16
background = /nix/store/7hsckf791p8f44amhmrqzfhbx51r0zax-simple-dark-gray-2018-08-28/share/backgrounds/nixos/nix-wallpaper-simple-dark-gray_bottom.png
background = /nix/store/pi48942qnpxjmw7qv8wdidfgwixhayzj-source/modules/system/desktops/backgrounds/<myphoto>.jpg
I haven’t seen wallpaper-simple-dark-gray_bottom.png
in forever.
nix-store --query --roots /nix/store/*xfce*
used to be pretty big, so I nuked all the previous generations and garbage collected, got it down to seven lines
/run/current-system -> /nix/store/rykkns5a5s27hxih6j05rxw0zn309x23-nixos-system-grindenstern-24.05.20231127.8cfef69
/nix/var/nix/profiles/system-1-link -> /nix/store/rykkns5a5s27hxih6j05rxw0zn309x23-nixos-system-grindenstern-24.05.20231127.8cfef69
/run/booted-system -> /nix/store/rykkns5a5s27hxih6j05rxw0zn309x23-nixos-system-grindenstern-24.05.20231127.8cfef69
/tmp/nixos-rebuild.0KJs9p/result -> /nix/store/mh1q5yvb7q22p9jiqwyy7a9q459rgj82-nixos-system-grindenstern-23.11.20231116.7414e9e
/tmp/nixos-rebuild.0vyJoQ/result -> /nix/store/zjvcw5bvwvs53ihdpphv1nalc2f3g0g2-nixos-system-grindenstern-23.11.20231029.90e85bc
/tmp/nixos-rebuild.TxYe7I/result -> /nix/store/rrk5l3c0zxcd6rz4qhdczsa6p98s4xg0-nixos-system-grindenstern-23.11.20231029.90e85bc
/tmp/nixos-rebuild.nkKysP/result -> /nix/store/bzx44wdi3g6f1qkirzn4rpfa4dcp2ksi-nixos-system-grindenstern-23.11.20231029.90e85bc
I don’t see how the mouse will ever be garbage collected, since it’s a legacy from a few generations a couple months ago. Moreover, I should be able to find where the mouse is stored and where x is choosing it, but I haven’t been able to. Solving this problem by garbage collecting is giving up, in a sense.
This is definitely the least NixOS experience I’ve had. XFCE’s wallpapers are deeply and unhingedly effectful.