Slack: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:13, 9 March 2025

Slack is a communication platform with a desktop application based on Electron.

Installation

NixOS

Note: This package is unfree and requires extra steps to install.

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ slack ];

Tips

Wayland

You can enable native Wayland support by launching Slack as:

$ NIXOS_OZONE_WL=1 slack

... or by simply specifying this option globally:

environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1";

If you want to use screen-sharing, you'll have to enable xdg-desktop-portal, too:

xdg = {
  portal = {
    enable = true;
    extraPortals = with pkgs; [
      xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
      xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
    ];
    gtkUsePortal = true;
  };
};

Window decorations

If the above configuration leaves you without window decorations you may want to enable this feature as well:

WaylandWindowDecorations

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 === NixOS ===
+{{Unfree}}
 <syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
 environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ slack ];
-</syntaxHighlight>
-=== Non-NixOS ===
-<syntaxHighlight lang="console">
-$ nix-env -iA nixos.slack
 </syntaxHighlight>
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 === Wayland ===
-If you're using recent nixpkgs (from 2022-01-27), you can enable native Wayland support by launching Slack as:
+You can enable native Wayland support by launching Slack as:
 <syntaxHighlight lang="console">
@@ Line 31: / Line 25: @@
 </syntaxHighlight>
-If that doesn't work for you, you might be using an older nixpkgs where the <code>NIXOS_OZONE_WL</code> option didn't exist yet - in that case, you can launch Slack via:
+If you want to use screen-sharing, you'll have to enable <code>xdg-desktop-portal</code>, too:
-<syntaxHighlight lang="console">
-$ slack --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer
-</syntaxHighlight>
-... or, which is a bit more convenient, patch its derivation:
-<syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
-{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
-let
-  slack = pkgs.slack.overrideAttrs (old: {
-    installPhase = old.installPhase + ''
-      rm $out/bin/slack
-      makeWrapper $out/lib/slack/slack $out/bin/slack \
-        --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : $GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH \
-        --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [pkgs.xdg-utils]} \
-        --add-flags "--ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WebRTCPipeWireCapturer"
-    '';
-  });
-in
-{
-  environment.systemPackages = [ slack ];
-}
-</syntaxHighlight>
-In all of the cases, if you want to use screen-sharing, you'll have to enable <code>xdg-desktop-portal</code>, too:
 <syntaxHighlight lang="nix">
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 WaylandWindowDecorations
 </syntaxHighlight>
+[[Category:Applications]]