Package request: greetd

[hallabro]

Project description
greetd is a minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd
• source URL: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd
• license: gplv3
• platforms: linux

[kira-bruneau]

I started looking into packaging this, and building it was easy, but I've been having troubles in the NixOS module trying to launch the session defined in services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession for agretty.

Does anyone else have more experience setting up display managers in NixOS?

[kira-bruneau]

Here is my current progress so far on a branch in my NUR repo: https://github.com/MetaDark/nur-packages/blob/greetd/modules/services/x11/display-managers/greetd/greetd.nix.

[bnjmnt4n]

As someone with minimal nix and systemd knowledge, I found @bqv's module very helpful in setting up greetd on my system. Here's hoping we can land greetd and friends in nixpkgs, with an easy-to-use module for the setup. (Although, it should probably be named under a new configuration option for that, since stuffing everything under xserver.displayManager doesn't make sense.)

[bqv]

I take no responsibility for how hideous my current X11+wayland setup is. It does work though, yes

[ymatsiuk]

#102242 🎉

@luc65r do you by any chance plan to PR module mentioned here

[luc65r]

@ymatsiuk Yes, but I need to find motivation…
I thought @Qzle was going to do it, but it seems like he lost motivation too

[ymatsiuk]

@luc65r you did a great job adding a package. I (and potentially more people) appreciate your effort! 🙂 Thanks.

[luc65r]

@ymatsiuk thanks, but that's not really what I meant. I've tried several months ago, but I got stuck on a major issue, and then had more enjoyable projects. I just have to stop telling myself that I need to do it, and just do it.

[ymatsiuk]

@luc65r I didn't mean anything, just wanted to thank you for the work that has been done though.

I'm now curious what is this major issue you've faced with module?

[luc65r]

@ymatsiuk I don't remember well, but I think I couldn't get wayland running in qemu to test the greeters.
Now that I rethink of it, it maybe wasn't a major issue.

[queezle42]

I thought @Qzle was going to do it, but it seems like he lost motivation too

I'm still interested, I was waiting for greetd to get merged and didn't have time since then. Thanks for getting greetd in, I'll open the PR soon!

[zimbatm]

#102242 includes the package but the NixOS module is still missing.

[ymatsiuk]

@zimbatm this is what I've mentioned. @Qzle agreed to submit a PR for module. Does it makes sense to wait before we can close this one WDYT?

[zimbatm]

My bad, I didn't read the whole thread. I started packaging greetd on my own and found this afterward. I have a WIP NixOS module over there: https://github.com/zimbatm/nixpkgs/tree/nixos-greetd