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gdm: refactor to properly handle wayland sessions #76985

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Motivation for this change

This PR tries to address issue #76169.

It is a draft PR since I'm currently stuck on using systemd.packages as mentioned by @hedning here.

Here is the current state of this PR :

  • What works :

    • Listing GNOME session only if user explicitly enables it or if users enable desktopManager.gnome3
    • Listing Wayland sessions

    If you're using a wayland compositor (like Sway) and you want to use GDM, then it works correctly in the current state.

  • What does not work :

    Having those 2 options enabled :

     displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
 desktopManager.gnome3.enable = true;

I have the feeling it is due to the duplication of gnome-session (one with the exposing session file flag, the other one not) in systemd.packages :

$ nixos-option systemd.packages
Value:
[
  «derivation /nix/store/(hash of not exposed one)-gnome-session-3.34.2.drv»
  «derivation /nix/store/(hash of exposed one)-gnome-session-3.34.2.drv»
]

I'm opening this PR to seek help of where I should be heading to from this point. It clearly is a naive implementation, and if you believe this is not the way it should be fixed we can simply dismiss this PR :).

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ghost commented Jan 7, 2020

I haven't been able to test if it works correctly for standard Gnome setups : I have a build failure on some Gnome3 components on current master.

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hedning commented Jan 7, 2020

With services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome3.enable = true and gdm we'll get a build error around here:

nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-lib.nix

Line 150 in 09e3b35

for i in ${toString cfg.packages}; do

The solution with the least resistance is probably adding an option to the gnome desktop that adds gnome-session as a systemd package, adds gnome-shell as a portal and turns portals on (which also adds the systemd stuff) and installs adwaita-icon-theme. Not very pretty though, but works around the limitation of not being able to add duplicate systemd packages.

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With services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome3.enable = true and gdm we'll get a build error around here:

nixpkgs/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd-lib.nix

Line 150 in 09e3b35

for i in ${toString cfg.packages}; do

The solution with the least resistance is probably adding an option to the gnome desktop that adds gnome-session as a systemd package, adds gnome-shell as a portal and turns portals on (which also adds the systemd stuff) and installs adwaita-icon-theme. Not very pretty though, but works around the limitation of not being able to add duplicate systemd packages.

I'd much rather fix the bug of duplicates not working in systemd.packages.
I've ran into it before.

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worldofpeace commented Jan 8, 2020 •
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Actually, core-shell doesn't add gnome-shell in systemd.packages

nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/gnome3.nix

Line 239 in 9e323fb

(mkIf serviceCfg.core-shell.enable {
. It's being added because of being in xdg.portals is totally an accident and we should fix that.

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I think I fixed the duplicates problem btw #77294.

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hedning commented Jan 8, 2020

It's being added because of being in xdg.portals is totally an accident and we should fix that.

Yeah, with the duplicates being fixed we should add gnome-shell explicitly in core-shell. IIRC I tried adding gnome-shell to systemd.packages while we added systemd support in 3.34 and ran into the problem that gnome-shell was already added through the portal.

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ghost commented Jan 12, 2020

Hello, sorry, I'm a bit short at the moment : I will wait for #77294 to be merged then I will rebase this pull request. I will have more time next week to finish the work on this :).

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hedning commented Jan 12, 2020

Yep, makes sense to wait for #77294, this PR should be fine then :)

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I've merged #77294 ✨

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ghost commented Jan 18, 2020

I've rebased the branch, I'll make some tests throughout the week-end.

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hedning commented Jan 18, 2020

@GrahamcOfBorg test gnome3

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LGTM at least :)

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I've rebased the branch, I'll make some tests throughout the week-end.

Oof, gdm tests are pretty out there. I've had that on my todo list for a while.
It would be a great idea to add them, but I don't think it should block this contribution right away.
I don't believe them to be as straightforward.

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nixos/gnome3: add gnome-shell to systemd.packages
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This actually gets added via xdg.portal having gnome-shell.
However, that could change and it still for sure should be here.
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I started sway in a vm with

services.xserver.enable = true;
  services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
  programs.sway.enable = true;
  environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.dmenu ];
  programs.gnome-terminal.enable = true;
  programs.dconf.enable = true;

from gdm.

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