I am trying out NixOS and am quite impressed. Everything works on KDE Plasma (except screen tearing) I tried out GNOME and suddenly there are no sound devices but it works on KDE Plasma.
I thoroughly read GNOME, Pipewire Wiki Pages.
I applied the following breaking changes:
Subject: [PATCH] try out GNOME
---
nixos/default.nix | 3 +++
nixos/environment/system_packages.nix | 2 ++
nixos/hardware/default.nix | 2 +-
nixos/services/default.nix | 5 +++++
nixos/services/xserver.nix | 10 ++--------
nixos/sound/default.nix | 4 ++--
6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/nixos/default.nix b/nixos/default.nix
index d2c8af7..899d056 100644
--- a/nixos/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/default.nix
@@ -22,4 +22,7 @@
./users
./virtualisation
];
+
+ systemd.services."getty@tty1".enable = false;
+ systemd.services."autovt@tty1".enable = false;
}
diff --git a/nixos/environment/system_packages.nix b/nixos/environment/system_packages.nix
index 28244a4..e74e981 100644
--- a/nixos/environment/system_packages.nix
+++ b/nixos/environment/system_packages.nix
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
gimp
git
gitAndTools.gitFull
+ gnomeExtensions.appindicator
+ gnome.adwaita-icon-theme
gnome.ghex
gnome.gnome-disk-utility
gnome.gnome-keyring
diff --git a/nixos/hardware/default.nix b/nixos/hardware/default.nix
index 28d5df2..47c530c 100644
--- a/nixos/hardware/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/hardware/default.nix
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
};
};
- # pulseaudio.enable = true; # TODO: conflicts with pipewire, bluetooth@wiki says enable this??
+ pulseaudio.enable = false;
sane = {
enable = true;
diff --git a/nixos/services/default.nix b/nixos/services/default.nix
index 972fd23..d0b6404 100644
--- a/nixos/services/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/services/default.nix
@@ -29,9 +29,14 @@ inputs @ { pkgs, ... }: {
udev = {
packages = with pkgs; [
android-udev-rules
+ gnome.gnome-settings-daemon
];
};
+ dbus = {
+ packages = with pkgs; [ gnome2.GConf ];
+ };
+
fstrim.enable = true;
# login and unlock with fingerprint (if you add one with `fprintd-enroll`)
diff --git a/nixos/services/xserver.nix b/nixos/services/xserver.nix
index d9bb8a3..1b855f8 100644
--- a/nixos/services/xserver.nix
+++ b/nixos/services/xserver.nix
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
# windowManager.dwm = { enable = false; };
- desktopManager.plasma5 = {
- enable = true;
- useQtScaling = true;
- };
+ desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
displayManager = {
autoLogin = {
@@ -15,10 +12,7 @@
user = "u";
};
- sddm = {
- enable = true;
- # timeout = 0;
- };
+ gdm.enable = true;
};
videoDrivers = [ "modesetting" ];
diff --git a/nixos/sound/default.nix b/nixos/sound/default.nix
index c2d5f5a..577b2a0 100644
--- a/nixos/sound/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/sound/default.nix
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-{
- sound.enable = false;
+{ lib, ... }: {
+ sound.enable = lib.mkForce false;
}
The output of
systemctl status --user pipewire.service
● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/user/pipewire.service; linked-runtime; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /nix/store/31h955pwxxicz1ik0qz2ii94hr7c6vsm-user-units/pipewire.service.d
└─overrides.conf
Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-11-20 01:54:06 CET; 10min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
Main PID: 2245 (pipewire)
Tasks: 7 (limit: 18849)
Memory: 9.8M
CPU: 87ms
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
└─2245 /nix/store/z0rrfrsjs3mds7inxkz6pcsqmpflyj1z-pipewire-0.3.80/bin/pipewire
Nov 20 01:54:06 u systemd[1691]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Nov 20 01:54:09 u pipewire[2245]: ALSA lib conf.c:4556:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file /alsa/asoundrc
Nov 20 01:54:09 u pipewire[2245]: ALSA lib seq.c:935:(snd_seq_open_noupdate) Unknown SEQ default
Nov 20 01:54:09 u pipewire[2245]: spa.alsa: open failed: No such file or directory
Nov 20 01:54:09 u pipewire[2245]: [0:00:19.241588412] [2245] INFO IPAManager ipa_manager.cpp:143 libcamera is not installed. Adding '/nix/store/src/ipa' to the IPA search path
Nov 20 01:54:09 u pipewire[2245]: [0:00:19.241801190] [2245] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:298 libcamera v0.0.5