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diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/pantheon.xml b/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/pantheon.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 0e98b08fb658..000000000000 --- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/desktop-managers/pantheon.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,171 +0,0 @@ -<!-- Do not edit this file directly, edit its companion .md instead - and regenerate this file using nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh --> -<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="chap-pantheon"> - <title>Pantheon Desktop</title> - <para> - Pantheon is the desktop environment created for the elementary OS - distribution. It is written from scratch in Vala, utilizing GNOME - technologies with GTK and Granite. - </para> - <section xml:id="sec-pantheon-enable"> - <title>Enabling Pantheon</title> - <para> - All of Pantheon is working in NixOS and the applications should be - available, aside from a few - <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/58161">exceptions</link>. - To enable Pantheon, set - </para> - <programlisting> -services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.enable = true; -</programlisting> - <para> - This automatically enables LightDM and Pantheon’s LightDM greeter. - If you’d like to disable this, set - </para> - <programlisting> -services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.pantheon.enable = false; -services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = false; -</programlisting> - <para> - but please be aware using Pantheon without LightDM as a display - manager will break screenlocking from the UI. The NixOS module for - Pantheon installs all of Pantheon’s default applications. If you’d - like to not install Pantheon’s apps, set - </para> - <programlisting> -services.pantheon.apps.enable = false; -</programlisting> - <para> - You can also use - <xref linkend="opt-environment.pantheon.excludePackages" /> to - remove any other app (like <literal>elementary-mail</literal>). - </para> - </section> - <section xml:id="sec-pantheon-wingpanel-switchboard"> - <title>Wingpanel and Switchboard plugins</title> - <para> - Wingpanel and Switchboard work differently than they do in other - distributions, as far as using plugins. You cannot install a - plugin globally (like with - <option>environment.systemPackages</option>) to start using it. - You should instead be using the following options: - </para> - <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> - <listitem> - <para> - <xref linkend="opt-services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.extraWingpanelIndicators" /> - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <xref linkend="opt-services.xserver.desktopManager.pantheon.extraSwitchboardPlugs" /> - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - <para> - to configure the programs with plugs or indicators. - </para> - <para> - The difference in NixOS is both these programs are patched to load - plugins from a directory that is the value of an environment - variable. All of which is controlled in Nix. If you need to - configure the particular packages manually you can override the - packages like: - </para> - <programlisting> -wingpanel-with-indicators.override { - indicators = [ - pkgs.some-special-indicator - ]; -}; - -switchboard-with-plugs.override { - plugs = [ - pkgs.some-special-plug - ]; -}; -</programlisting> - <para> - please note that, like how the NixOS options describe these as - extra plugins, this would only add to the default plugins included - with the programs. If for some reason you’d like to configure - which plugins to use exactly, both packages have an argument for - this: - </para> - <programlisting> -wingpanel-with-indicators.override { - useDefaultIndicators = false; - indicators = specialListOfIndicators; -}; - -switchboard-with-plugs.override { - useDefaultPlugs = false; - plugs = specialListOfPlugs; -}; -</programlisting> - <para> - this could be most useful for testing a particular plug-in in - isolation. - </para> - </section> - <section xml:id="sec-pantheon-faq"> - <title>FAQ</title> - <variablelist spacing="compact"> - <varlistentry> - <term> - <anchor xml:id="sec-pantheon-faq-messed-up-theme" />I have - switched from a different desktop and Pantheon’s theming looks - messed up. - </term> - <listitem> - <para> - Open Switchboard and go to: Administration → About → Restore - Default Settings → Restore Settings. This will reset any - dconf settings to their Pantheon defaults. Note this could - reset certain GNOME specific preferences if that desktop was - used prior. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> - <anchor xml:id="sec-pantheon-faq-gnome-and-pantheon" />I - cannot enable both GNOME and Pantheon. - </term> - <listitem> - <para> - This is a known - <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/64611">issue</link> - and there is no known workaround. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> - <anchor xml:id="sec-pantheon-faq-appcenter" />Does AppCenter - work, or is it available? - </term> - <listitem> - <para> - AppCenter has been available since 20.03. Starting from - 21.11, the Flatpak backend should work so you can install - some Flatpak applications using it. However, due to missing - appstream metadata, the Packagekit backend does not function - currently. See this - <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15932">issue</link>. - </para> - <para> - If you are using Pantheon, AppCenter should be installed by - default if you have - <link linkend="module-services-flatpak">Flatpak - support</link> enabled. If you also wish to add the - <literal>appcenter</literal> Flatpak remote: - </para> - <programlisting> -$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists appcenter https://flatpak.elementary.io/repo.flatpakrepo -</programlisting> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </section> -</chapter> |