[Nix-dev] KDE with i3 as window manager in NixOS?

[Kirill Elagin]

I am running KDE with xmonad as window manager (not on NixOS but I don’t
think there is any difference). I always thought the easiest way of
replacing _just_ the window manager in KDE was setting the KDEWM
environment variable during startup which I do by exporting it in
`~/.kde4/env/xmonad.sh` (no .desktop files needed as this should be set
just to executable, e.g. `xmonad`).

But still. If you want to add a .desktop file, that of course cat be done
in `configuration.nix`, but as far as I know there is no pre-cooked
solution, so you’ll have to deal with all the paths and stuff yourself. But
is that really needed? Couldn’t you just add the file to
`~/.kde4/share/apps/…`?

On Sun Jan 04 2015 at 9:47:27 PM Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get KDE to use i3 as window manager. I did not succeed
> by now. I want to try this whether it is useable for me, so I can
> benefit from KDE as well as from i3.
>
> I tried to reproduce this [0] suggestion in nixos, but I failed when
> writing the .desktop file to the nix store (manually, in a VM).
>
> Can someone point out how to do this in nixos?
>
> [0]: https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2939/i3wm-and-kde-together/
>
> Would be nice if this would work by specifying it in the
> /etc/nixos/configuration.nix ...
>
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> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
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