Using Espanso on Wayland NixOS

Pierre-Thibault · December 15, 2025, 7:50am

OK. I had to restart for things to work.

Pierre-Thibault · December 17, 2025, 6:51pm

The port to NixOS 25.11 is working. But Espanso is not always working after computer sleep on my machine. I had to restart it to make it work again.

Are you also experiencing this problem?

Pierre-Thibault · January 5, 2026, 12:19am

I created a service to restart Espanso after sleep. It works with dbus so it depends on Gnome.

github.com/Pierre-Thibault/nixos-config

modules/services/restart_espanso_after_sleep.nix

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{
  pkgs,
  lib,
  ...
}:

{
  # Service that listens for resume events via D-Bus
  systemd.user.services.espanso-dbus-resume = {
    enable = true;
    description = "Restart Espanso on resume (D-Bus triggered)";
    serviceConfig = {
      Type = "simple";
      Restart = "always";
    };
    script = lib.getExe (
      pkgs.writeShellApplication {
        name = "espanso-dbus-resume-listener";
        runtimeInputs = with pkgs; [
          dbus

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Geobomatic · January 10, 2026, 8:04pm


services.espanso = {
      enable = true;
      package = pkgs-unstable.espanso-wayland;
    };

on Niri, but nothing triggers :-/

EDIT: just found out that on wayland, need to set the layout if non-US and I’m not US ^^ it works now