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-<!-- 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>