Necrobumping to ask if you got it to work. I’ve also been trying to write a derivation for this plugin, but with no success.
No, I wasn’t able to get it working.
I haven’t tried newer versions as I moved distro…
how is it different from linux-wallpaperengine: init at 2022-08-22 by rapenne-s · Pull Request #188136 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub ?
linux-wallpaperengine doesn’t work on Plasma, GNOME and other DEs.
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin is integrated and made to work for KDE Plasma
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What is your current state? Is it working?
No, sorry. I switched distributions
That’s sad. Than I will try it on my own.
So I try to get it running, but I always get following error and don’t know how to fix it:
CMake Error at src/backend_scene/third_party/glslang/CMakeLists.txt:281 (message):
ENABLE_OPT set but SPIR-V tools not found. Please run
update_glslang_sources.py, set the ALLOW_EXTERNAL_SPIRV_TOOLS option to use
a local install of SPIRV-Tools, or set ENABLE_OPT=0.
Any ideas how to fix that?
Hi. I was recently looking for ways to make this plugin work.
There seem to be a a few pioneers running this plugin on Nix.
https://github.com/search?q=language%3ANix+wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin&type=code
This is my nix file and plugin works fine.
Thank you so much! I was already despairing. It’s working now.
I have to correct myself. I was a bit hasty. It compiles, but when I want to select Engigne as desktop background wallpaper, there is no such option. What else did you do differently?
Oh. My nix file looks not perfect yet.
I have noticed some points after commenting
- It installs only lib, so you need to install plugin manually.(Originally, the plugin should also be installed)
- Some wallpaper that worked on ArchLinux does not work on my Nix environment.
Despite the problems, I am somewhat satisfied with current situation. If you find a solution, I world be glad to know.
As mentioned above, it is possible to install the wallpaper plugin if you turn DUSE_PLASMAPKG OFF, but then the following error appear:
Python helper run failed:
python3: can’t open file ‘/home/spp/no_pyext_file_found’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
What I also found out is that in the “About-Tab” of the wallpaper engine settings, their are no pythone3-websocket dependencies found.
Since you installed it manually, is the check mark displayed?
As mentioned above, it is possible to install the wallpaper plugin if you turn DUSE_PLASMAPKG OFF, but then the following error appear
I could not reproduce it. I turn DUSE_PLASMAPKG OFF but build works fine and plugin not installed.
What I also found out is that in the “About-Tab” of the wallpaper engine settings, their are no pythone3-websocket dependencies found.
Since you installed it manually, is the check mark displayed?
Yes.
I have added it here.
Make sure there are no conflicts with python3 installed elsewhere, like this
I copied your config for wallpaper engine one by one and if I set
"-DUSE_PLASMAPKG=OFF"
wallpaper engine gets installed and I do not need to install it manually. But I always get the missing dependencies error mentioned above.
I was able to reproduce your situation after uninstalling plugin that installed manually, and I noticed that the folder com.github.casout.wallpaperEngineKde in ~/.local/share/plasma/wallpapers/ has been deleted.
I checked and nix had installed it on /run/current-system/sw/share/plasma/wallpapers and KDE cannot seem to recognize.
Finally I solved this problem by adding a small script. I would like to know if there is a better way to add the folder in user .local directory.
Thank you so much! It’s working now without any problems.
And I think your solution with the startup script is fine.
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Hey, that’s awesome! You should make a PR to include it in Nixpkgs!
To do that, I need to fix this problem and do everything in mkDerivation, but have not found a good way😇