Hey there.
I’ve recently switched to Nixos with lightdm + dwm. I am facing a couple of issues with cursor themes and keyboard repeat rate and would very much like some help with them.
First the repeat rate problem:
I’ve set the keyrepeat delay and interval as follows in my home-manager configuration.
server.xserver.autoRepeatDelay = 200;
server.xserver.autoRepeatInterval = 100;
From xserver.nix I see that these settings are passed to X. Sure enough, they are there when display manager runs.
● display-manager.service - X11 Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service; linked; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-09-06 15:12:35 PKT; 19min ago
Process: 877 ExecStartPre=/nix/store/c8f3s53f7c6fw8hs6wnbz4xhhf9wqgxy-unit-script-display-manager-pre-start/bin/display-manager-pre-start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 883 (lightdm)
IP: 0B in, 0B out
IO: 163.8M read, 124.0K written
Tasks: 22 (limit: 14094)
Memory: 258.8M
CPU: 14.934s
CGroup: /system.slice/display-manager.service
├─883 /nix/store/drc53rvbcqm28v10is2hqvxqhjg23gcx-lightdm-1.32.0/sbin/lightdm
└─911 /nix/store/0kzisff5hir34fcpjhcclzh65xrwq88z-xorg-server-21.1.8/bin/X -config /nix/store/yfchpkpnknavmbqh7xh5df13gh8bxhha-xserver.conf -xkbdir /nix/store/sj99mv2wkgi37v78gs4x2k2liln4yy4l-xkeyboard-config-2.33/etc/navmbqh7xh5df13gh8bxhha-xserver.conf -xkbdir /nix/store/sj99mv2wkgi37v78gs4x2k2liln4yy4l-xkeyboard-config-2.33/etc/X11/xkb -logfile /dev/null -verbose 3 -nolisten tcp -ardelay 200 -arinterval 100 -terminate -logfile /var/log/X.0.lo11/xkb -logfile /dev/null -verbose 3 -nolisten tcp -ardelay 200 -arinterval 100 -terminate -logfile /var/log/X.0.log :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
But running xset -q shows no change in the repeat interval.
auto repeat delay: 200 repeat rate: 10
Then there’s the problem with the cursor themes not changing:
I’ve set the following settings in my configuration.nix
services = {
xserver = {
# Enable the X11 windowing system.
enable = true;
exportConfiguration = true;
displayManager = {
lightdm = {
enable = true;
greeters.gtk = {
enable = true;
theme.package = pkgs.flat-remix-gtk;
iconTheme.package = pkgs.flat-remix-icon-theme;
theme.name = "Flat-Remix-GTK-Dark-Blue";
iconTheme.name = "Flat-Remix-Dark-Blue";
cursorTheme = {
package = pkgs.bibata-cursors;
name = "Bibata-Modern-Ice";
};
};
};
};
};
Here’s my home.nix
gtk = {
enable = true;
theme.name = "Flat-Remix-GTK-Blue-Dark";
iconTheme.name = "Flat-Remix-Blue-Dark";
cursorTheme = {
package = pkgs.bibata-cursors;
name = "Bibata-Modern-Ice";
};
gtk2 = {
configLocation = "${config.xdg.configHome}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc";
extraConfig = ''
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true;
gtk-font-name="Proxima Nova, 10";
gtk-cursor-theme-size = 0
'';
};
gtk3 = {
extraCss = ''
VteTerminal, vte-terminal {
padding: 30px;
}
'';
extraConfig = {
"gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme" = true;
"gtk-cursor-theme-size" = 0;
"gtk-font-name" = "Proxima Nova, 10";
};
};
gtk4.extraConfig = {
"gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme" = true;
"gtk-font-name" = "Proxima Nova, 10";
};
};
qt = {
enable = true;
style.package = pkgs.libsForQt5.qtstyleplugins;
platformTheme = "gtk";
};
home.pointerCursor = {
gtk.enable = true;
package = pkgs.bibata-cursors;
name = "Bibata-Modern-Ice";
};
Despite all this, there I still get the default cursor at the desktop, gtk cursor in firefox. If I run lxappearance, then my cursor changes theme to gtk on desktop but not on the dwm bar.