Hi. When upgrading the NixOS channel to 24.05 and running the sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade command, does it also upgrade to KDE Plasma 6.xx (I’m on KDE Plasma 5.27.11 right now)? Or do I need to do a clean install?
I’m guessing this is what I need to do?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1drvg14/plasma_5_to_plasma_6/?rdt=55340
What do I do for:
services.xserver = {
layout = “ca”;
xkbVariant = “”;
};
Yep. The xkb options were moved to their own submodule, just rename them as the deprecation messages suggest. It’s still necessary on wayland for at least xwayland stuff.
Thx for your answer. I don’t understand as to what I should replace or rename as for the xkb stuff. Do I just need to replace xserver with displaymanager, desktopmanager or something else?
Also, do I also replace xserver with displaymanager for this command: services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ “modesetting” ];
No, you just put it under xkb
. Nothing about xserver
changes.
services.xserver.xkb = {
layout = “ca”;
variant = “”; # This is the default variant anyway, so you could delete it
};
Same for the drivers, you just keep that. It’s only plasma6 that doesn’t live in the xserver
module anymore.
Ok. I heard Plasma 6 was using Wayland so NixOS is not ready for Wayland?
NixOS supports Wayland for quite some time. Plasma 6 was simply not chosen as the default Plasma version for NixOS 24.05. Plasma 6 should run fine, but you need to actively select it: Enable Plasma 6
You do not need the unstable channel. The linked threat was created before 24.05 branched of from unstable.
Also, xserver
in the module name does not mean it actually does anything xserver related. A bunch of those options have outdated names, but will apply to both X and wayland sessions.
Most wayland sessions will also still run xwayland, which still needs a fair bit if X config, so even if the options were named more clearly you’d likely still have some xserver
options set when running a wayland session.
I made the switch and it’s working fine.