ilyakooo0/nixpkgs
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/ilyakooo0/nixpkgs.git synced 2024-10-21 04:42:07 +03:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Manual: Document X11 configuration

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2013-08-20 11:15:02 +02:00
parent 884b4c6137
commit b6d9eed805
1 changed files with 55 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

57
doc/manual/configuration.xml
View File

@ -392,6 +392,60 @@ groups can be managed using <command>groupadd</command>,
</section> </section>
<!--===============================================================-->
<section><title>X11</title>
<para>The X11 windowing system provides the basis of NixOS’ graphical
user interface. It can be enabled as follows:
<programlisting>
services.xserver.enable = true;
</programlisting>
The X server will automatically detect and use the appropriate video
driver from a set of X.org drivers (such as <literal>vesa</literal>
and <literal>intel</literal>). You can also specify a driver
manually. For instance, to enable the proprietary NVIDIA driver, you need
<programlisting>
services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
</programlisting>
(You may need to reboot after enabling this driver to prevent a clash
with other kernel modules.)</para>
<para>You also need to enable at least one desktop or window manager.
Otherwise, you can only log into a plain undecorated
<command>xterm</command> window. Thus you should pick one or more of
the following lines:
<programlisting>
services.xserver.desktopManager.kde4.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;
services.xserver.windowManager.xmonad.enable = true;
services.xserver.windowManager.twm.enable = true;
services.xserver.windowManager.icewm.enable = true;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>NixOS’s default <emphasis>display manager</emphasis> (the
program that provides a graphical login prompt and manages the X
server) is SLiM. You can select KDE’s <command>kdm</command> instead:
<programlisting>
services.xserver.displayManager.kdm.enable = true;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>The X server is started automatically at boot time. If you
don’t want this to happen, you can set:
<programlisting>
services.xserver.autorun = false;
</programlisting>
The X server can then be started manually:
<screen>
$ systemctl start display-manager.service
</screen>
</para>
</section>
<!--===============================================================--> <!--===============================================================-->
<section><title>Networking</title> <section><title>Networking</title>
@ -573,8 +627,7 @@ networking.localCommands =
</section> </section>
<!-- TODO: declarative package installation; X11; user management; <!-- Apache; libvirtd virtualisation -->
Apache; libvirtd virtualisation -->
</chapter> </chapter>