Even if the tools that assemble /etc can handle leading slashes, this
still is not correct. For example, you could have both /X11 and X11 in
environment.etc which makes overriding hard.
Until now, if you set `services.xserver.xkb.dir` to a dir containing
a custom keyboard layout, and making this layout the default via
`services.xserver.xkb.layout`, `xkbvalidate` would complain:
The value `gb-CapsLockIsHyperL' for keyboard layout is invalid.
Please check the definition in `services.xserver.xkb.layout'.
Detailed XKB compiler errors:
Couldn't find file "symbols/gb-CapsLockIsHyperL" in include paths
1 include paths searched:
/nix/store/x1ahkafwzv66s3yxffvrjc0ixkcjiig6-xkeyboard-config-2.31/etc/X11/xkb
3 include paths could not be added:
/homeless-shelter/.config/xkb
/homeless-shelter/.xkb
/etc/xkb
Abandoning symbols file "(unnamed)"
Failed to compile xkb_symbols
Failed to compile keymap
This is because the `xkb_*()` functions in `xkbvalidate` were not
told to use our `xkbDir`.
This commit fixes it by passing the dir as an environment variable
as described on:
* https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/group__include-path.html
* https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/group__context.html
without this
```
nix-repl> nixosTests.xfce.nodes.machine.services.xserver.xkb
error: The option 'nodes.machine.services.xserver.xkb' is used but not defined.
```
with this
```
nix-repl> nixosTests.xfce.nodes.machine.services.xserver.xkb
{ dir = "/nix/store/096yg7fc67py86w0bm6g7a32npgyh5ic-xkeyboard-config-2.39/etc/X11/xkb"; layout = "us"; model = "pc104"; options = "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"; variant = ""; }
```
[Motivation](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/257817#issuecomment-1741705042):
- Having all the XKB options in the same attribute set clarifies their
relation better than using a common option name prefix ("xkb").
- `services.xserver.layout` is an XKB option, but this is not obvious
from its name. Putting it with the other XKB options clarifies this.
Co-authored-by: Michele Guerini Rocco <rnhmjoj@users.noreply.github.com>
Currently systemd prints `Starting X11 Server` in the journal, which completely
misled me into searching why my wayland system was starting an X server.
Turns out that what is started is actually the display manager,
so I think it's better to call it like that in the description.
The single option tries to do too much work, which just ends up confusing people.
So:
- don't force the console font, the kernel can figure this out as of #210205
- don't force the systemd-boot mode, it's an awkward mode that's not supported
on most things and will break flicker-free boot
- add a separate option for the xorg cursor scaling trick and move it under the xorg namespace
- add a general `fonts.optimizeForVeryHighDPI` option that explicitly says what it does
- alias the old option to that
- don't set any of those automatically in nixos-generate-config
This option is based on a recommendation from a page last updated in
2014 (see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/), and it
is not necessary anymore.
Also, it did the wrong thing: it forced DRI2, but Glamor should also
work with DRI3, that is a better option most of the time. So let's
remove this option, folks that still want to force this manually can do
so in other ways.
now nix-doc-munge will not introduce whitespace changes when it replaces
manpage references with the MD equivalent.
no change to the manpage, changes to the HTML manual are whitespace only.
most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very
restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this
evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging
only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos
ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any
given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos
options available in any given config.
in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves
about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two
second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system
config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off
entirely shortened the build to 7.1s.
Just setting the XKB_CONFIG_ROOT should be enough, so we don't need to
rebuild the xserver, xkbcomp and other packages anymore.
However, the variable has to be passed explicitely to scripts running at
build time: in particular to xkbvalidate and xkb-console-keymap.
Recommend to use services.xserver.dpi option instead. Mention in the
documentation that it's a sledgehammer approach and monitor settings should be
used instead.
Also don't set DPI in fontconfig settings; fontconfig should use Xft settings
by default so let's not override one value in multiple places. For example,
user now can set DPI via ~/.Xresources properly.
A too low number of inotify user instances causes similar problems as
max_user_watches. Without this, my workstation keeps running into things
like this:
$ sudo systemctl restart display-manager.service
Failed to allocate directory watch: Too many open files
These were broken since 2016:
f0367da7d1
since StartLimitIntervalSec got moved into [Unit] from [Service].
StartLimitBurst has also been moved accordingly, so let's fix that one
too.
NixOS systems have been producing logs such as:
/nix/store/wf98r55aszi1bkmln1lvdbp7znsfr70i-unit-caddy.service/caddy.service:31:
Unknown key name 'StartLimitIntervalSec' in section 'Service', ignoring.
I have also removed some unnecessary duplication in units disabling
rate limiting since setting either interval or burst to zero disables it
(ad16158c10/src/basic/ratelimit.c (L16))
xserver uses the wrong version of xkbvalidate, the one from
buildPackages should be used or else the resulting xkbvalidate binary is
compiled for the target architecture.
It had confusing semantics, being somewhere between a boolean option and
a FontPath specification. Introduce fontPath to replace it and mark the
old option as removed.
This removes the `services.dbus.socketActivated` and
`services.xserver.startDbusSession` options. Instead the user D-Bus
session is always socket activated.
