There are two relevant nixpkgs PRs that have been merged this week. It should not require any workarounds or manual action anymore. The only required config going forward is
{
services.espanso = {
enable = true;
package = pkgs.espanso-wayland;
};
}
The PRs are:
master ← n8henrie:espanso-wayland
opened 01:22AM - 10 Jul 25 UTC
On wayland, espanso relies on capabilities for its worker process to function.
… Unfortunately it forks itself using `current_exe()` to find the binary, which resolves to the capability-lacking binary in the store instead of a wrapped binary provided by `security.wrappers`.
Extensive discussion of the problem and alternative solutions in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/328890.
As compared to that PR, which has not made much progress, this is a dramatically simpler approach that seems to work well.
Happy to incorporate constructive criticism, as I am not terribly familiar with `security.wrappers` and suspect there may be better ways to e.g. find the wrapped espanso, test for `pkgs.espanso-wayland`, etc.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/249364
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master ← n8henrie:espanso-target
opened 03:13PM - 21 Nov 25 UTC
On Linux, espanso requires either an X11 or Wayland session to function;
startin… g with default.target leads to a failed systemd user service that
must be manually restarted.
Starting with graphical-session.target waits until we have something
espanso can work with.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/463578
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- [x] aarch64-linux
- [ ] x86_64-darwin
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