bug: some xfce panel plugins don't work unless defined in systemPackages

novoid commented 1 year ago

Are you following the right branch?

[X] My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

[X] I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

This is a copy from a stale issue from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/89302 which has a verbose description of the issue of not seeing several xfce panel plugins when used with Home-Manager.

I do think that this issues is more related to home-manager (this issue) than to NixOS/nixpkgs in general (the other issue).

I'm not the original author of that issue but I was also affected by it: https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/issues/2 https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/issues/3 https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/issues/4 https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/issues/5

My affected setup: https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/tree/e4e4795d464611e13fc8ffbc9a6f6822d1e1986b

Fixed in my setup by moving the list of xfce packages including the add-ons/plugins from homemanager/xfce.nix to configuration.nix (NixOS without/outside of Home-Manager) and then the missing plugins were visible in the xfce panel.

Fixed via https://github.com/novoid/nixos-config/commit/dd68aa7f2d93eb5d9a9f1f5758c7cee7dde4f19b

Maintainer CC

@muscaln

System information

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.42, NixOS, 23.05 (Stoat), 23.05.20230801.bd836ac`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.13.3`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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novoid commented 11 months ago

From all I've read, this issue rather looks like an conceptual issue related to the integration of XFCE. I'm not an expert but it seems that this could represent and underlying issue which is not that easy/quick to fix.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

However, configuring xfce using Nix does seem to work randomly which results in a lot of try and error.

stale[bot] commented 8 months ago