Not sure what XR is (¿extended reality?) but we definitely should not patch GNOME Shell with random patches.

@mkg20001 What you could do is make a variant of those packages with XR. Or maybe nixpkgs isn't the best place for those things, will the patches be sent upstream to gnome-shell ever? I think that is the only questionable thing, the xrdesktop packages are fine for nixpkgs.

I also have an overlay here for these packages:
https://github.com/danielfullmer/xrdesktop-overlay

My understanding is that the authors are working to upstream their gnome changes. The version for KDE does not require any invasive patching, and could (in principle) be included in nixpkgs. However, I have not been able to get KDE to work yet with their latest version of xrdesktop.

@mkg20001 I noticed your gxr doesn't include openvr as a dependency? I think for it to be useful, you'd need to include at least one of the two backends, openvr or openxr, as dependencies. The openxr support for gxr is new, and I haven't yet added openxr/monado to my overlay.

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This would still be very nice to have.

On a related note: #107001

@mkg20001 How were you testing this? What OpenXR runtime were you using?

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info