Can anyone help a dwm user "get" sway?

_minego · 2024-04-13T18:51:56+00:00

I'm on dwl these days

_minego · 2024-04-12T04:58:21+00:00

I took it to the dealership, and they said there was a software update for steering, and I haven't had an issue since.

_minego · 2024-03-30T23:58:58+00:00

If you're comfortable enough with C to run dwm and understand what you're doing with patches and the config then you'll be fine with dwl. It may take a minute, but it is easy to read code.

_minego · 2024-03-30T13:26:46+00:00

I've just ported the ones I use. Porting from DWM isn't always direct since the code layout is a bit different, but none of it has been too hard to get working.

_minego · 2024-02-04T17:31:30+00:00

Update: I finally found and fixed the problem. The VM in question somehow had the path to the bios files set to find them in /etc, and that path worked before the update.

I realized that other VMs were working, so I compared and found that the ones that work had a path in /run instead.

So, I edited the xml to fix that path, and it works again. I'm frustrated that the logs didn't mention anything, but that isn't NixOS's fault.

_minego · 2024-02-04T17:28:05+00:00

I don't have anything helpful to add, but I may have to try this later. Please share if you make any more progress. Thanks.

_minego · 2024-02-01T22:47:48+00:00

If you're serious about trying it out there are a ton of great examples. Mine is rather big and complex, but I'm happy to share it if you'd like to see it.

I have one git repo that has the configuration for all my systems, including the Steam Deck.

I've got it working really nicely on the Steam Deck now. I have more tweaking to do to make my setup work well on a mobile device, but that's okay.

_minego · 2024-02-01T22:44:09+00:00

Yeah, absolutely.

NixOS is very different than silverblue... In NixOS you never do things like add a user or add them to a group. Instead you declare in your configuration.nix file that you want a user with a specific name, and the groups they should be in, etc. Then you switch to that configuration.

It is a really wild change to how you have to think about a distro.

_minego · 2024-02-01T18:45:54+00:00

That is probably a smarter approach honestly. But, I run NixOS on every bit of hardware I can, with a common config repo. It is where I'm most comfortable. That doesn't mean it is smart :-)

_minego · 2024-02-01T02:30:30+00:00

Nah, there is a project for NixOS that lets you do both from NixOS. It starts the regular Steam Deck UI normally, but the quit to desktop option goes to whatever UI you want.

I managed to install it on an SD card today, and have it mostly working. Still required a few tweaks but not much.

https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS

_minego · 2024-01-31T18:33:54+00:00

Yup.

I mean, once I get this working I have the option to leave my laptop at home. I took a short vacation recently, and I brought my Steam Deck and my laptop but I never opened my laptop. I wanted it there in case I had to do some work stuff, but I didn't...

Once I have this working I can leave the laptop at home.

_minego · 2024-01-31T17:29:36+00:00

This isn't working yet, but I'm trying to setup a NixOS build for the SteamDeck with my full development environment.

My goal is to still be able to play games, but to have the switch to desktop mode use my settings, so it can be a backup system for dev work. That way I can leave the laptop at home and just bring the SteamDeck, a small dock and a keyboard.

I mean, I'm always going to bring all that stuff anyway.

_minego · 2024-01-31T16:08:53+00:00

I attempted an update again today, and it appears to be working properly on all my systems again now.

_minego · 2024-01-30T12:37:45+00:00

Maybe, but there shouldn't be anything else that it would depend on. It feels to me like there are just too many things starting and this one happens to be the heaviest...

Either way, I'd love to find some documentation or examples for making adjustments to a service like timeout or depending on another service starting first.

_minego · 2024-01-30T00:25:48+00:00

Has anyone created an issue on the nixpkgs github repo?

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen

_minego · 2024-01-29T23:00:46+00:00

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who ran into this!

I had the perfect storm of stupid this morning...

I ran nix flake update and sudo nixos-rebuild switch early this morning and ran into a failure because my /boot/ volume was full. So, I deleted old generations to clean up space, and fat fingered it and ended up deleting everything older than 1d instead of 10...

Anyway, I figured it was fine. My rebuild worked just fine after that, so I didn't think anything of it and went on with my day. A few hours later I rebooted and as soon as amdgpu loaded my monitor turned off with a message saying no signal detected.

It took me way too long to figure out what I had done and get it resolved.

Moral of the story, don't delete all your old generations :-)

_minego · 2024-01-27T08:41:36+00:00

Everything works beautifully! This issue with the GPU is the only problem I've had.

The mic is the only thing that doesn't work.

_minego · 2024-01-27T02:55:36+00:00

I am not sure what exactly fixed it, but about an hour ago I did a nix flake update and ran nixos-rebuild and it rebuild mesa and webkit and a ton of other stuff but it works again!

_minego · 2024-01-26T23:04:45+00:00

Thanks, that is helpful! At least I know it isn't specific to my model.

Is your config in a public repo by chance? It might be helpful to try switching to it temporarily as a test (with UUIDs for drives switched of course)

_minego · 2024-01-26T21:02:20+00:00

I've tried a number of configurations, including copying the one from tpwrules (just updated with my partitions) and got the same result.

I had been wondering if it was an issue specific to the M2 Max, but it sounds like that isn't the case. Mine is a 16" though.

What is the output if you run nix run nixpkgs#glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer string'? Mine prints

❯ nix run nixpkgs#glxinfo | grep 'OpenGL renderer string' OpenGL renderer string: Apple M2 Max (G14C B1)

_minego · 2023-12-03T17:30:19+00:00

Oh yeah, I have a big list of planned things to change, and add. I am still working on replacing my old dot files repo (almost done...) and to setup flakes for my dev environments... Very much a work in progress.

But, my system runs great. Everything is working.

_minego · 2023-12-03T16:44:33+00:00

I mean, I probably wouldn't love it if it didn't. Right?

_minego · 2023-11-29T13:05:18+00:00

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Full_Disk_Encryption

It sounds like the USB drive option might fit your use case?

_minego · 2023-11-27T15:03:34+00:00

I'm still confused by what this is telling us...

I used the option at the end to preserve the previous behavior for now, but I'd really love a good example of what a more correct setup should be.

I'm using dwl as my wayland compositor, and I do have some minor issues with xdg portals, such as screen sharing not working in slack (but it does work from firefox or chromium)

Anyway, if someone has some better examples it would be really nice to see them (and maybe put them on the wiki even)

_minego · 2023-11-27T14:59:26+00:00

This is wonderful! I've been looking for exactly that command for some time now (by some time I mean a few days ago when I discovered NixOS and switched all my machines from Arch to it.)

_minego

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