[Nix-dev] AwesomeWM

[Luke Clifton]

Correction:

    sudo nixos-rebuild switch

You can also do a

    sudo nixos-rebuild dry-build -v

which will show you exactly which packages are being built. Search around
in the output for awesome.


On 12 February 2017 at 09:57, Luke Clifton <ltclifton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you be a little more precise?
>
> I don't use awesome myself, but you probably need to install it in
> configuration.nix via the `services.xserver.windowManager.awesome` set of
> options.
>
> You then need to
>
>     sudo nixos-rebuild --switch
>
> This uses the nixpkgs version that the root user has configured, rather
> than what your user has configured.
>
> So double check the output of
>
>     sudo nix-channel --list
>
> You can also dig around in ~/.nix-defexpr/channels_root/.
>
> On 12 February 2017 at 09:29, Nathan Owens <ndowens.nixos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I installed it through local clone of nixpkgs and also tried though
>> nix-env and also through configuration.nix; All same results
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Luke Clifton <ltclifton at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How are you installing it?
>>>
>>> On 12 Feb. 2017 3:13 am, "Nathan Owens" <ndowens.nixos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have tried asking in IRC  and on reddit.com/r/nixos and nobody can
>>>> tell me about this issue
>>>>
>>>> awesome says it is version 4.0 but it looks like 3.5.9 and acts like
>>>> it, meaning using copycat's rc.lua file used for version 4.0 gives errors.
>>>> On my ArchLinux install the rc.lua file works fine and even the
>>>> inital(without copycat's themes) look different than it did on 3.5.9
>>>>
>>>> I have tried installing awesome from local clone repo of nixpkgs and
>>>> same issue.
>>>>
>>>> Copying error from reddit post I made :
>>>>
>>>> ..8n5-awesome-4.0/share/awesome/lib/menubar/icon_theme.lua:95: table index is nil
>>>>
>>>> error while running function!
>>>> stack traceback:
>>>> ..8n5-awesome-4.0/share/awesome/lib/menubar/icon_theme.lua:95: table index is nil
>>>> ..h68n5-awesome-4.0/share/awesome/lib/menubar/menu_gen.lua:59: in function ' lookup_category_icons'
>>>>  ....h68n5-awesome-4.0/share/awesome/lib/menubar/menu_gen.lua:59: in function ''generate'
>>>>  ../.config/awesome/freedesktop/menu.lua:59: in function 'build'
>>>>  ../.config/awesome/rc.lua:170: in main chunk
>>>>  error....8n5-awesome-4.0/share/awesome/lib/menubar/icon_theme.lua:95: table index is nil
>>>>
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