NixOS

[mbrignall]

Hi there,

Great project!

Is there a plan to package this for NixOS?

Best,

M.

[ldelossa]

Hey there.

Not unless a community member contributes this. I will only maintain packages for the distro I currently use, which is Fedora.

[sudanchapagain]

With some help, i managed to build the binary with nix-shell. As in it's still using make but uses nix-shell to provide the paths for dependencies. However, i had to add a new entry to the Make file dependency

DEPS := libadwaita-1 \
        gtk4-layer-shell-0 \
        upower-glib \
        wireplumber-0.5 \
++      libpipewire-0.3 \
        json-glib-1.0 \
        libnm \
        libpulse \
        libpulse-simple \
        libpulse-mainloop-glib \

shell.nix:

with import <nixpkgs> {};
mkShell {
  name = "env";
  packages = [
    pkg-config
    gtk4
    libadwaita
    gtk4-layer-shell
    upower
    wireplumber
    pipewire.dev
    json-glib
    networkmanager.dev
    libpulseaudio
    wayland-protocols
    wayland-utils
    xwayland
    glib.dev
  ];
}

just add these to the root of repo run nix-shell & then make

NOTE: 1. I have not mapped exact dependencies in nix-shell. I should have used nix-locate or something as such it might contain unnecessary dependencies. 2. I have not ran the binary as i am in gnome and ran into a error which is i think is because i am not in sway.

[ldelossa]

Very cool! Id love to help out more here but Im not too Nix savvy.

Your comments around running in Gnome is right. We fail if we can't take a few dbus names, which Gnome is almost definitely owning.

[sudanchapagain]

I just tried running it on sway but i got an error.

(way-shell:5405): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 15:54:42.969: Settings schema 'org.ldelossa.way-shell.window-manager' is not installed
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I am not sure why but i am assuming it's because it isn't installed in system as in it's not linked and is in nix store. idk.

[ldelossa]

@sudanchapagain The gschema file has not be integrated with your system.

Check out the makefile targets here:

.PHONY:
install-gschema:
    glib-compile-schemas $(DESTDIR)$(SCHEMADIR)

.PHONY:
install:
    install -D ./way-shell $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/way-shell
    install -D ./way-sh/way-sh $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/way-sh
    install -D data/org.ldelossa.way-shell.gschema.xml $(DESTDIR)$(SCHEMADIR)/org.ldelossa.way-shell.gschema.xml
    install -D contrib/systemd/way-shell.service $(DESTDIR)$(USERUNITDIR)/way-shell.service

After the install, a call to make install-gschema should be called to compile the gschema database.

For instance, we do this in a post scriptlet in the rpm spec file:

https://github.com/ldelossa/way-shell/blob/main/way-shell.spec#L64C1-L71C50