| 16 Jun 2024 |
 andreas_dev | In reply to @nzbr:nzbr.de
the copying happens in an activation script, so it should happen every time the distro boots or you switch to a new generation. Therefore, if you have a recent-enough version of the nixos-wsl modules the launchers should be copied from your user profile as well. You can check if they are present in /usr/share/applications. I don't know with what logic wsl will re-scan those directories though, or if there is any way of triggering a scan manually Only the NixOS manual and fish shell appears in there | 09:05:05 |
| andreas_dev | 
Download 1000052272.jpg | 09:39:11 |
| andreas_dev | I wanted to test a theory, however this error occurred: https://pastebin.com/dxNjuJnZ
This is my hardware-configuration in the image above (pastebin cloudflare blocked me so I couldn't make another one | 09:39:28 |
| andreas_dev | Apparently the nixos-rebuild did work, and my theory has been proven thus far: adding programs to the user in configuration.nix works and shows in the menu, but when performing this through home-manager, it won't be copied to /usr/share/applications and show in the menu. Should I file a bug report for this? | 09:40:49 |
 K900 | It's not really something we can fix | 10:26:34 |
| K900 | Unless | 10:26:36 |
| K900 | Unless we do something really cursed | 10:26:42 |
| andreas_dev | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Unless we do something really cursed Now I'm intrigued.. | 10:29:03 |
| K900 | We can copy the shortcuts from a systemd user service | 10:29:21 |
| K900 | Instead of the activation script | 10:29:28 |
| K900 | Then it'll inherit the user's XDG_DATA_DIRS | 10:29:35 |
| K900 | And we can chmod /usr/share/applications to your user | 10:30:05 |
| K900 | So it actually works | 10:30:09 |
| K900 | Because the setup is effectively single user anyway | 10:30:14 |
| andreas_dev | Hm, that does seem a little cursed, yeah. Is there no way of using the current active profile of the home manager generation and readlink that to the shortcut? | 10:31:14 |
| andreas_dev | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
And we can chmod /usr/share/applications to your user From what I've seen in /usr/share/applications, the symlinks there are owned by the root user instead of my current user | 10:32:03 |
| K900 | Yes, but we can change that | 10:32:13 |
| K900 | In reply to @andreas_dev:matrix.org
Hm, that does seem a little cursed, yeah. Is there no way of using the current active profile of the home manager generation and readlink that to the shortcut? Not from the activation script | 10:32:25 |
| andreas_dev | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Not from the activation script Oh right, in the activation script we won't have an active HM generation | 10:33:03 |
| andreas_dev | Would it be possible to write a HM module for NixOS WSL which copies/links the shortcuts of the active generation to /usr/share/applications, and re-calls the activation script of NixOS WSL? | 10:35:16 |
| andreas_dev | * Would it be possible to write a HM module for NixOS WSL which copies/links the shortcuts of the active generation to /usr/share/applications, and re-calls the activation script of NixOS WSL on a rebuild? | 10:35:47 |
| K900 | You don't need anything on the NixOS side, technically | 10:36:19 |
| K900 | You could just have HM copy the files | 10:36:24 |
| K900 | And WSL should pick them up | 10:36:28 |
| K900 | But it's kinda weird | 10:36:32 |
| andreas_dev | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
You could just have HM copy the files You mean manually, right? | 10:37:35 |
| K900 | You could also do that with an activation script | 10:37:46 |
| andreas_dev | I was thinking of a HM module since the 'defect' occurs when using home-manager, so ideally we would use an activation script there to copy/link the shortcuts there, right?
That way we can keep a clear separation of concerns for copying of the system/user shortcuts and the home-manager/user shortcuts and we wouldn't have to deal with copying them from the systemd user service
I'm not that familiar with the way these things work, but would that be possible? And what would the potential downsides be in your opinion? | 10:41:12 |
| 17 Jun 2024 |
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