swayfx: NixOS error when setting programs.sway.package = pkgs.swayfx

Setting programs.sway.package = pkgs.swayfx in a Nix config will result in the following error:

error: Package, 'swayfx-0.2', did not specify any session names, as strings, in
       'passthru.providedSessions'. This is required when used as a session package.

       The session names can be looked up in:
         /nix/store/704ch74d0hh687ai5idcrwix3xcdwgn9-swayfx-0.2/share/xsessions
         /nix/store/704ch74d0hh687ai5idcrwix3xcdwgn9-swayfx-0.2/share/wayland-sessions
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

The swayfx nix package definition should include this session name

About this issue

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State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 19 (7 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

swayfx: wrap like sway The current implementation of swayfx is unwrapped, we should wrap it like we wrap swayfx for consistency. Simpler alternative to #267261 & #234243 Fixes WillPower3309/swayfx#... — committed to NixOS/nixpkgs by kira-bruneau 7 months ago
Remove sway desktop entry (see WillPower3309/swayfx#161) — committed to fishyfishfish55/nixfiles by deleted user 7 months ago

Most upvoted comments

Is there a workaround to make it work currently?

Hi you can use this config for now

programs.sway = { enable = true; package = (pkgs.swayfx.overrideAttrs (old: { passthru.providedSessions = [ "sway" ]; }));};

it solve the problem for me 😃

amaali7 on Aug 3, 2023

This should be fixed now since https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/270013 was merged!

EDIT: Oops spoke to soon, still need https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/267261

kira-bruneau on Nov 26, 2023

Big thanks to @kira-bruneau for a great first stab at the issue and getting things organized, and @name-snrl and @quantenzitrone for implementing this in nixpkgs! Happy to announce this is completed 😃

WillPower3309 on Dec 24, 2023

Is there a workaround to make it work currently?

vegaelle on Jun 9, 2023