plumb my configured sway through to everywhere that wants pkgs.sway.

kinda ugly. this lets me avoid having multiple versions of sway on my
system.

hosts/common/default.nix

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
 {
   imports = [
     ./feeds.nix
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
       # this probably doesn't work if more than one sway session exists on the system.
       _notifyActiveSwaySock="$(echo /run/user/*/sway-ipc*.sock)"
       if [ -e "$_notifyActiveSwaySock" ]; then
-        SWAYSOCK="$_notifyActiveSwaySock" ${pkgs.sway}/bin/swaymsg -- exec \
+        SWAYSOCK="$_notifyActiveSwaySock" ${config.sane.programs.sway.packageUnwrapped}/bin/swaymsg -- exec \
           "${pkgs.libnotify}/bin/notify-send 'nixos activated' 'version: $(cat $systemConfig/nixos-version)'"
       fi
     '';

hosts/common/programs/grimshot.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
-{ ... }:
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
 {
   sane.programs."sway-contrib.grimshot" = {
+    packageUnwrapped = pkgs.sway-contrib.grimshot.override {
+      # my `sway` is heavily patched to be cross compatible
+      sway-unwrapped = config.sane.programs.sway.package.sway-unwrapped;
+    };
+    suggestedPrograms = [
+      # runtime dependencies (grimshot is just a trivial shell script)
+      "grim"
+      "jq"
+      "libnotify"  # only if invoked with `-n`
+      "slurp"
+      # "sway"
+      "wl-clipboard"
+    ];
     sandbox.method = "bwrap";
     sandbox.wrapperType = "wrappedDerivation";
     sandbox.whitelistWayland = true;

hosts/common/programs/sway/default.nix

@@ -26,25 +26,23 @@ let
         swayLauncher
         configuredSway
       ];
+      passthru.sway-unwrapped = configuredSway;
     };
   swayPackage = wrapSway (
-    (pkgs.sway-unwrapped.override {
+    pkgs.sway-unwrapped.override {
       # wlroots seems to launch Xwayland itself, and i can't easily just do that myself externally.
       # so in order for the Xwayland it launches to be sandboxed, i need to patch the sandboxed version in here.
-      wlroots_0_16 = pkgs.wlroots_0_16.override { xwayland = config.sane.programs.xwayland.package; };
+      wlroots_0_16 = pkgs.wlroots_0_16.override {
-    }).overrideAttrs (_: {
+        xwayland = config.sane.programs.xwayland.package;
-    # isNixOS = true;  #< doesn't matter
+      };
-    #
+
       # about xwayland:
       # - required by many electron apps, though some electron apps support NIXOS_OZONE_WL=1 for native wayland.
       # - when xwayland is enabled, KOreader incorrectly chooses the X11 backend
       #   -> slower; blurrier
       # - xwayland uses a small amount of memory (like 30MiB, IIRC?)
-    #
-    # TODO: something else is dragging a xwayland-enabled wlroots into the environment,
-    #       making this actually kinda wasteful.
       enableXWayland = config.sane.programs.xwayland.enabled;
-    })
+    }
   );
 in
 {

hosts/modules/gui/sxmo/default.nix

@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ let
     };
     rotate = pkgs.static-nix-shell.mkBash {
       pname = "sxmo_hook_rotate.sh";
-      pkgs = [ "sway" ];
+      pkgs = {
+        sway = config.sane.programs.sway.package.sway-unwrapped;
+      };
       srcRoot = ./hooks;
     };
     start = pkgs.static-nix-shell.mkBash {
@@ -109,7 +111,10 @@ in
     };
     sane.gui.sxmo.package = mkOption {
       type = types.package;
-      default = pkgs.sxmo-utils.override { preferSystemd = true; };
+      default = pkgs.sxmo-utils.override {
+        preferSystemd = true;
+        sway = config.sane.programs.sway.package.sway-unwrapped;
+      };
       description = ''
         sxmo base scripts and hooks collection.
         consider overriding the outputs under /share/sxmo/default_hooks
@@ -243,6 +248,7 @@ in
           "sfeed"   # want this here so that the user's ~/.sfeed/sfeedrc gets created
           # "superd"  # make superctl (used by sxmo) be on PATH
           # "sway-autoscaler"
+          "waybar-sxmo-status"
         ];
 
         persist.byStore.cryptClearOnBoot = [
@@ -252,6 +258,17 @@ in
           ".local/share/sxmo/notifications" # so i can see new SMS messages. not sure actually if this needs persisting or if it'll re-hydrate from modem.
         ];
       };
+
+      sane.programs.waybar-sxmo-status = {
+        packageUnwrapped = pkgs.static-nix-shell.mkBash {
+          pname = "waybar-sxmo-status";
+          srcRoot = ./.;
+          pkgs = {
+            sxmo-utils = package;
+            "sxmo-utils.runtimeDeps" = package.runtimeDeps;
+          };
+        };
+      };
     }
 
     {
@@ -267,7 +284,7 @@ in
       {
         sane.programs.sway.enableFor.user.colin = true;
         sane.programs.waybar.config = {
-          top = import ./waybar-top.nix { inherit pkgs; };
+          top = import ./waybar-top.nix;
           # reset extra waybar style
           extra_style = "";
         };

hosts/modules/gui/sxmo/waybar-top.nix

@@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
 # docs: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration
 # format specifiers: https://fmt.dev/latest/syntax.html#syntax
 # this is merged with the sway/waybar-top.nix defaults
-{ pkgs }:
-let
-  waybar-sxmo-status = pkgs.static-nix-shell.mkBash {
-    pname = "waybar-sxmo-status";
-    srcRoot = ./.;
-    pkgs = [ "sxmo-utils" "sxmo-utils.runtimeDeps" ];
-  };
-in
 {
   height = 26;
 
@@ -43,7 +35,7 @@ in
     # so it works even without the "statusbar periodics" sxmo service running.
     interval = 2;
     format = "{}";
-    exec = "${waybar-sxmo-status}/bin/waybar-sxmo-status modem-state modem-tech modem-signal wifi-status volume";
+    exec = "waybar-sxmo-status modem-state modem-tech modem-signal wifi-status volume";
   };
 
   "custom/sxmo" = {