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Nixpkgs overlay for GNOME Shell on mobile

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README.md

nixpkgs-gnome-mobile

A Nixpkgs overlay providing patches, and a NixOS module providing useful configurations, for running GNOME Shell on mobile.

Official blog post about GNOME Shell on mobile: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/
Packaging request in Nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/191711
A similar work: https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/576

Usage

For using with Nixpkgs, add ./overlay.nix or nixpkgs-gnome-mobile.overlays.default to your Nixpkgs overlays. For using with NixOS, add ./module.nix to your imports in configuration.nix, or nixpkgs-gnome-mobile.nixosModules.gnome-mobile to your modules in nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem.

Debugging gnome-shell

The Wayland compositor can be started directly from the Linux console. The log is actually verbose enough to identify problems, but for unknown reasons you may have to redirect the stderr to see it:

$ gnome-shell --wayland 2> gnome-shell.log