nixpkgs-wayland

Overview

Automated, pre-built packages for Wayland (sway/wlroots) tools for NixOS.

Packages from this overlay are regularly updated and built against nixos-unstable and nixpkgs-unstable.

(Sister repositories: nixpkgs-kubernetes, nixpkgs-colemickens)

Packages

Full list of Packages

Attribute Name	Last Upstream Commit Time
nixpkgs/nixos-unstable	2019-04-25 07:41
nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable	2019-04-25 06:56
pkgs/wlroots	2019-04-28 21:00
pkgs/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr	2019-02-12 12:09
pkgs/sway	2019-04-28 18:07
pkgs/swayidle	2019-02-16 16:43
pkgs/swaylock	2019-04-22 22:14
pkgs/slurp	2019-03-16 19:52
pkgs/grim	2019-02-20 13:18
pkgs/mako	2019-04-28 08:29
pkgs/kanshi	2019-02-02 23:21
pkgs/wlstream	2018-07-15 21:10
pkgs/oguri	2019-02-19 14:19
pkgs/waybar	2019-04-26 19:57
pkgs/wayfire	2019-04-21 07:40
pkgs/wf-config	2019-03-24 21:20
pkgs/redshift-wayland	2019-04-17 23:13
pkgs/bspwc	2018-12-29 23:21
pkgs/waybox	2018-11-27 14:44
pkgs/wl-clipboard	2019-04-15 15:53
pkgs/wf-recorder	2019-04-21 13:25
pkgs/gebaar-libinput	2019-04-05 13:27
pkgs/i3status-rust	2019-04-27 18:59

Usage

Continue reading for usage instructions on NixOS (only the nixos-unstable channel is supported!).

You can also use this with Nix on Ubuntu. Please see the full walkthrough.

Usage (nixos-unstable)

This usage just utilizes overlay functionality from nixpkgs.

Note that when using the overlay, the module will automatically reference the correct sway package since the newer package is overlayed ontop of pkgs.

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
let
  url = "https://github.com/colemickens/nixpkgs-wayland/archive/master.tar.gz";
  waylandOverlay = (import (builtins.fetchTarball url));
in
  {
    nixpkgs.overlays = [ waylandOverlay ];
    programs.sway.enable = true;
    programs.sway.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
      swayidle # used for controlling idle timeouts and triggers (screen locking, etc)
      swaylock # used for locking Wayland sessions

      waybar        # polybar-alike
      i3status-rust # simpler bar written in Rust

      grim     # screen image capture
      slurp    # screen are selection tool
      mako     # notification daemon
      wlstream # screen recorder
      oguri    # animated background utility
      kanshi   # dynamic display configuration helper
      redshift-wayland # patched to work with wayland gamma protocol

      xdg-desktop-portal-wlr # xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots
    ];
    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      # other compositors/window-managers
      wayfire  # 3D wayland compositor
      waybox   # An openbox clone on Wayland
      bspwc    # Wayland compositor based on BSPWM
    ];
  }

Quick Tips: sway

• Usage of display managers with sway is not supported upstream, you should run it from a TTY.
• You will likely want a default config file to place at $HOME/.config/sway/config. You can use the upstream default as a starting point: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/config.in

Updates

• ./update.sh:
  • updates pkgs/<pkg>/metadata.nix with the latest commit+hash for each package
  • updates nixpkgs/<channel>/metadata.nix per the upstream channel
  • calls nix-build build.nix to build all packages against nixos-unstable
  • calls nix-build build.nixpkgs.nix to build all packages against nixpkgs-unstable
  • pushes to nixpkgs-wayland on cachix

Binary Cache

Packages are built as described in the section above and are published to cachix.

See usage instructions at nixpkgs-wayland on cachix.