| 17 May 2026 |
 emily | I'm unqualified to be the one to judge but I don't think I care about PulseAudio in GDM at all. | 23:45:33 |
| emily | does GDM even make sounds? | 23:45:37 |
| emily | or does it break PulseAudio more generally? or… | 23:45:45 |
| emily | I feel like PulseAudio is just not a thing any more at least on GNOME | 23:46:08 |
| emily | I wouldn't worry about warnings | 23:46:20 |
 winston | it definitely does with accessibility stuff turned on | 23:58:33 |
| winston | or is supposed to be, at least
i havent checked that all of that works properly yet 😅 should probably do that | 23:59:00 |
| winston | and apparently the workaround that's currently in the pulseaudio config has something to do with stealing bluetooth focus, adequately cursed for pulse | 23:59:54 |
| 18 May 2026 |
| emily | did that onscreen keyboard thing ever get figured out btw? | 00:01:08 |
| winston | tecla? | 00:01:18 |
| emily | right | 00:01:21 |
| winston | yep that works | 00:01:29 |
| emily | yeah probably let's just ignore it… it's been a while since we defaulted to Pulse for desktops at all anyway… | 00:01:38 |
| emily | I guess we could warn on just GNOME + Pulse but I don't know if it's worth spending your limited time on | 00:01:55 |
| winston | alright thanks :) | 00:02:10 |
| 19 May 2026 |
| winston | ok so turns out accessibility stuff broke on gdm with the 50 bump, opened a fix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/521789 | 02:33:11 |
| emily | this looks like it doesn't make them share a home dir? | 03:17:59 |
| emily | so settings will apply or not depending on which one you roll? | 03:18:13 |
| winston | hm maybe, but with them sharing the home directory I see permission errors in journalctl
and clicking accessibility buttons doesnt do anything, i assume because it cant write that state or access dbus sockets | 03:32:17 |
| emily | the home would need the right permissions to be shared yeah. it sounds kind of awkward | 04:12:20 |
| emily | how is the config saving meant to work when it uses dynamic users? | 04:12:31 |
 9lore | I have no idea if mac users would want to use gnome apps, b ut if thats not the case id say adjust meta.platforms? Id say this would be breaking tho | 05:48:15 |
| 9lore | * I have no idea if mac users would want to use gnome apps, but if thats not the case id say adjust meta.platforms? Id say this would be breaking tho | 05:48:25 |
| 9lore | * I have no idea if mac users would want to use gnome apps, but if thats not the case id say adjust meta.platforms? Would be breaking tho? | 05:48:41 |
 tom | iirc it was marked as broken on darwin | 06:09:29 |
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| 21 May 2026 |
| winston | I reworded commits on that PR to explain more things as I understand them
I don't think you "roll" a random gdm-greeter each time, for a graphical session you usually get gdm-greeter, the other ones can be used for gnome-remote-desktop system sessions | 15:52:32 |
| winston | I've also added that warning about pulse, figured it can't hurt | 15:52:59 |
| winston | speaking of gnome-remote-desktop, I've played around with patching a few things so you one can use the Gnome Settings panel to manage the user config, rather than having to use grdctl, that was easy enough | 16:07:58 |
