| 30 Jun 2025 |
 emily | seems like just a general "assembling a modern Linux desktop environment from the twenty components you need" problem, users of minimal WMs are hopefully(?) more up to the task than others | 07:28:46 |
 hexa | oh, you mean into the sway module | 07:28:52 |
| emily | I meant the shared graphical module | 07:28:59 |
| hexa | ok, you know what | 07:29:05 |
| emily | nixos/modules/profiles/graphical.nix | 07:29:08 |
| hexa | let me find out if we document that already | 07:29:11 |
| emily | uh wrong one | 07:29:14 |
| emily | nixos/modules/services/misc/graphical-desktop.nix | 07:29:17 |
| emily | this is cursed | 07:29:24 |
| emily | # It's used by the graphical installation CD.
| 07:29:49 |
| emily | (lie) | 07:29:52 |
| hexa |
If Polkit seems not to work properly, you could check that you have an authentication agent installed and running
| 07:30:01 |
| hexa | ok, I'm testing that now before doing anything else | 07:30:07 |
| hexa | ok, I'm stupid | 07:31:19 |
| hexa | I tested editing an existing nm connection and that failed with permissions denied | 07:31:31 |
| hexa | but it also fails when like that when I'm in the group | 07:31:40 |
| hexa | * but it also fails like that when I'm in the group | 07:31:48 |
| emily | lol | 07:33:19 |
| emily | maybe you made that connection as root or something | 07:33:29 |
| hexa | maybe, but it is [x] Available to all users, whatever that implies | 07:33:47 |
| emily | usable by, not modifiable by, I think | 07:34:18 |
| emily | like you can log in as another user and still have WiFi | 07:34:25 |
| hexa | ok, but storing should work if I can elevate with polkit, right? | 07:35:07 |
| emily | maybe | 07:35:35 |
| emily | it could all just be broken in some other way :) | 07:35:44 |
| hexa | yes, sure | 07:36:04 |
| hexa | and with polkit-gnome running it prompts me for my password when editing a connection | 07:37:49 |
| hexa | 
Download image.png | 07:38:03 |
| hexa | but that doesn't work when outside the group over ssh | 07:39:03 |
 @brisingr05:matrix.org | FYI polkit_gnome has been unmaintained for about a decade and the repo is archived. | 07:40:57 |
