Some display managers (e.g. SDDM) set the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP variable accroding to this parameter.
If this variable is not defined, there will be some problems (e.g. MATE doesn't have icons on the desktop).
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71427
We switched to unified default session option services.xserver.displayManager.defaultSession
and included fallback path for the legacy options. Unfortunately when only
services.xserver.windowManager.default is set and not services.xserver.desktopManager.default,
it got incorrectly converted to the new option.
This should fix that.
Closes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/76684
This module allows root autoLogin, so we would break that for users, but
they shouldn't be using it anyways. This gives the impression like auto
is some special display manager, when it's just lightdm and special pam
rules to allow root autoLogin. It was created for NixOS's testing
so I believe this is where it belongs.
Previously if ~/.background-image wasn't present, the background would
be set to black, which would override what the user could
set in e.g. services.xserver.windowManager.i3.extraSessionCommands
On numerous occasions I have seen users mistake this
module as libinput because it being called "multitouch"
and them being unaware that the actually module they want
is libinput. They then run into several decrepit bugs due
to the completely out-of-date nature of the underlying package.
The underlying package hasn't been changed to an up-to-date
fork in a period of 8 years. I don't consider this to be production quality.
However, I'm not opposed for the module being readded to NixOS
with new packaging, and a better name.
Fixes this error from `nixos-rebuild switch` introduced by #75893:
setting up tmpfiles
[/etc/tmpfiles.d/nixos.conf:7] Invalid age 'yes'.
warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
###### Motivation for this change
With space between two options, multiple options just don't work
Looks like xkbOptions then used for generation of xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf.
kbd's man says XkbOptions must be comma-separated without spaces.
https://linux.die.net/man/4/kbd
###### Things done
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xsession gets passed `dm` `wm`, so the desktop manager would be launched
before the window manager resulting in a regular desktop manager
session.
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/76625
Also cleanup a bit, we enabled gnome-settings-daemon even when using elementary-settings-daemon.
I wanted the nixos module ascribe the defaults, not these lists in pkgs.
The upstream session files display managers use have no concept of sessions being composed from
desktop manager and window manager. To be able to set upstream session files as default
session, we need a single option. Having two different ways to set default session would be confusing,
though, so we decided to deprecate the old method.
We also created separate script for each session, just like we already had a separate desktop
file for each one, and started using displayManager.sessionPackages mechanism to make the
session handling more uniform.
