Latest revision as of 16:42, 10 April 2026

Mumble is an open source voice chat application.

Install client

To install the Mumble client it is needed to install a package:

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    mumble
  ];

PulseAudio Support

Add the following to your configuration.nix for pulseaudio support:

{ config, pkgs, ...}:
{
  environment.systemPackages = [
    (pkgs.mumble.override { pulseSupport = true; })
  ];
}

Install Murmur server

Murmur is the server service for Mumble clients. It can be enabled and has several options available.

  services.murmur = {
    enable = true;
    openFirewall = true;
  };

SuperUser password

The password of the SuperUser account is in the logs of murmur, it can be found with:

journalctl -u murmur | grep Password

The password is also written in the slog table in the sqlite database: /var/lib/murmur/murmur.sqlite

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-= PulseAudio Support =
+[https://www.mumble.info/ Mumble] is an open source voice chat application.
-Add the following snippet to a file, for instance mumble.nix
+= Install client =
+To install the Mumble client it is needed to install a package:
+<syntaxHighlight lang=nix>
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    mumble
+  ];
+</syntaxHighlight>
+== PulseAudio Support ==
+Add the following to your configuration.nix for [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio pulseaudio] support:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
 { config, pkgs, ...}:
 {
-nixpkgs.config = {
+  environment.systemPackages = [
-  packageOverrides = super: let self = super.pkgs; in {
+    (pkgs.mumble.override { pulseSupport = true; })
-    mumble = super.mumble.override { pulseSupport = true; };
+   ];
-   };
-};
 }
 </syntaxhighlight>
-and add to imports in configuration.nix, for instance as shown below
+= Install Murmur server =
+Murmur is the server service for Mumble clients. It can be enabled and has several [https://search.nixos.org/options?query=murmur options] available.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-   imports =
+   services.murmur = {
-     [
+     enable = true;
-      ./mumble.nix
+    openFirewall = true;
-    ];
+  };
 </syntaxhighlight>
+= SuperUser password =
+The password of the ''SuperUser'' account is in the logs of murmur, it can be found with:<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+journalctl -u murmur | grep Password
+</syntaxhighlight>The password is also written in the ''slog'' table in the sqlite database: /var/lib/murmur/murmur.sqlite
+[[Category:Applications]]
+[[Category:Gaming]]
+[[Category:Server]]