nixos/settings/gnome.nix
rope 60ab2d6b70 nautilus: disable tracker search to fix slow startup
Outside GNOME, Tracker3 isn't running. Nautilus connects to it at
startup for recursive search, hitting a D-Bus timeout and causing
~4s launch delay. Setting recursive-search=never prevents the attempt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 17:22:47 +01:00

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# settings/gnome.nix — display manager, lightweight fallback session, GTK/Qt theming
{ config, pkgs, lib, inputs, ... }:
{
config = lib.mkIf (lib.elem config.networking.hostName [ "FredOS-Gaming" "FredOS-Macbook" ]) {
services.xserver.enable = true;
services.displayManager.ly.enable = true;
services.displayManager.defaultSession = "hyprland";
boot.plymouth.enable = false;
services.displayManager.ly.settings = {
animation = "gameoflife";
bigclock = true;
};
# Lightweight fallback session — if Hyprland fails after an update,
# ly will list XFCE as an alternative without pulling in GNOME's
# keyring, tracker, or other heavyweight background services.
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce.enable = true;
# Flatpak for ad-hoc app installs via Bazaar
services.flatpak.enable = true;
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
nautilus # file manager — works standalone without a GNOME DE
adwaita-icon-theme
gnome-themes-extra
adwaita-icon-theme-legacy
papirus-icon-theme
];
# Cursor theme — stylix.cursor in settings/stylix.nix owns the choice.
environment.sessionVariables = {
XCURSOR_THEME = "Bibata-Modern-Ice";
XCURSOR_SIZE = "24";
XCURSOR_PATH = lib.mkForce [
"${pkgs.bibata-cursors}/share/icons"
"$HOME/.icons"
"$HOME/.local/share/icons"
];
};
programs.xwayland.enable = true;
programs.dconf.enable = true;
home-manager.users.fred = { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: {
# Stylix's qt target only supports qtct; disable it to silence the warning.
stylix.targets.qt.enable = false;
# Minimal titlebars — stylix manages the GTK theme; we layer our
# headerbar shrink on top via stylix.targets.gtk.extraCss.
gtk.enable = true;
# Disable Tracker search — Nautilus tries to connect to the Tracker3
# D-Bus service at startup for recursive search. Outside GNOME the
# service isn't running, causing a multi-second D-Bus timeout on launch.
dconf.settings."org/gnome/nautilus/preferences".recursive-search = "never";
stylix.targets.gtk.extraCss = ''
headerbar { min-height: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
headerbar .title { font-size: 0; }
window:backdrop {
background-color: @window_bg_color;
color: @window_fg_color;
}
window:backdrop headerbar {
background-color: @headerbar_bg_color;
color: @headerbar_fg_color;
}
'';
};
};
}