Nixpkgs: Sway not listed in SDDM sessions

Created on 16 Dec 2019  路  4Comments  路  Source: NixOS/nixpkgs

Describe the bug
After installing Sway and SDDM on NixOS stable and rebooting, SDDM starts but has no Sway entry.

nixos/modules/programs/sway.nix

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

services.xserver.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
programs.sway.enable = true;

Metadata

  • system: "x86_64-linux"
  • host os: Linux 5.4.3, NixOS, 19.09.1590.d85e435b7bd (Loris)
  • multi-user?: yes
  • sandbox: yes
  • version: nix-env (Nix) 2.3
  • channels(root): "nixos-19.09.1590.d85e435b7bd"
  • nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos
bug nixos
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picture thibran

Most helpful comment

I feel like it might be time to add another option to nixos:

services.wayland = {
   ...
};
picture jonringer on 17 Dec 2019
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All 4 comments

I think this PR might resolve this:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/56988

matthewbauer picture matthewbauer on 16 Dec 2019

75363 recently added display manager support for sway, but that's currently not in 19.09.

hedning picture hedning on 16 Dec 2019
👍1

I feel like it might be time to add another option to nixos:

services.wayland = {
   ...
};
jonringer picture jonringer on 17 Dec 2019
👍3

This is an issue fixed on master so we can close this.

worldofpeace picture worldofpeace on 18 Dec 2019
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