This is my pretty basic NixOS configuration file:
# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];
# Bootloader.
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
# Configure network proxy if necessary
# networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
# networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";
# Make wireless interface unmanaged (in order to make WiFi work)
networking.networkmanager.unmanaged = ["wlan*" "wlp*"];
# Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "Europe/Rome";
# Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_MEASUREMENT = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_MONETARY = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_NAME = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_NUMERIC = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_PAPER = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_TELEPHONE = "it_IT.UTF-8";
LC_TIME = "it_IT.UTF-8";
};
# Configure keymap in X11
services.xserver = {
layout = "it";
xkbVariant = "";
};
# Configure console keymap
console.keyMap = "it2";
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.frollo = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = "Frollo";
extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
packages = with pkgs; [];
};
# Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
# List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
# $ nix search wget
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
wget
alacritty
firefox-devedition-bin
git
waybar
rofi-wayland
vscode
];
# Enable programs
programs.hyprland.enable = true;
programs.thunar.enable = true;
#programs.vscode.enable = true;
# XDG sesttings
xdg.portal.enable = true;
xdg.portal.extraPortals = [ pkgs.xdg-desktop-portal-gtk ];
## Setting default browser
xdg.mime.enable = true;
#xdg.mime.defaultApplications = {
# "text/html" = "firefox-developer-edition.desktop";
# "x-scheme-handler/http" = "firefox-developer-edition.desktop";
# "x-scheme-handler/about" = "firefox-developer-edition.desktop";
# "x-scheme-handler/https" = "firefox-developer-edition.desktop";
# "x-scheme-handler/unknown" = "firefox-developer-edition.desktop";
#}
#xdg.mimeApps.enable = true;
#xdg.associations.added = {
# "text/html" = ["firefox-developer-edition.desktop"];
# "x-scheme-handler/http" = ["firefox-developer-edition.desktop"];
#}
#environment.sessionVariables.DEFAULT_BROWSER = "${pkgs.firefox-devedition-bin}/bin/firefox-developer-edition"
# Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
# started in user sessions.
# programs.mtr.enable = true;
# programs.gnupg.agent = {
# enable = true;
# enableSSHSupport = true;
# };
# List services that you want to enable:
# Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
# services.openssh.enable = true;
# Open ports in the firewall.
# networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
# networking.firewall.enable = false;
# This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
# settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
# on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
# this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
# Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
# (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
system.stateVersion = "23.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}
Problem: I open vscode, I press on the user icon and “Backup and sync settings…”, then I choose GitHub as login method, the pop up “Signing in to github.com…” appears and stays there forever. If I press “Cancel”, I get
You have not yet finished authorizing this extension to use GitHub. Would you like to try a different way? (local server)
Source: GitHub Authentication (Extension)
As you can see in the configuration I tried to change the xdg MIME settings (because I thought it was a default browser problem), but if I uncomment the any of those lines I get an error while running nixos-rebuild switch. Here is some possibly useful output:
ls /run/current-system/sw/share/applications/
Alacritty.desktop rofi.desktop
code.desktop rofi-theme-selector.desktop
code-url-handler.desktop thunar-bulk-rename.desktop
firefox-developer-edition.desktop thunar.desktop
mimeinfo.cache thunar-settings.desktop
nixos-manual.desktop xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.desktop
org.freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop
cat /run/current-system/sw/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
[MIME Cache]
application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
inode/directory=code.desktop;thunar.desktop;
text/html=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
text/plain=code.desktop;
text/xml=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox-developer-edition.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/vscode=code-url-handler.desktop;
So it doesn’t look like to me it’s an xdg error. Probably the issue is simpler than I think. Any help is appreciated.