Chromium: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:53, 10 May 2024

Installation

NixOS

Add chromium to systemPackages.

Accelerated video playback

Make sure Accelerated Video Playback is setup on the system properly. Check chrome://gpu to see if Chromium has enabled hardware acceleration.

If accelerated video playback is not working, check relevant flags at chrome://flags, or enable them using the cli:

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (chromium.override {
      commandLineArgs = [
        "--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL"
        "--ignore-gpu-blocklist"
        "--enable-zero-copy"
      ];
    })
  ];
}

Enabling native Wayland support

You can turn on native Wayland support in all chrome and most electron apps by setting an environment variable: environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1".

Enabling DRM (Widevine support)

By default, chromium does not support playing DRM protected media. However, there is a build time flag to include the unfree Widevine blob from nixpkgs:

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (chromium.override { enableWideVine = true; })
  ];
}

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-== Enable GPU accelerated video decoding (VA-API) ==
+== Installation ==
+=== NixOS ===
+Add {{nixos:package|chromium}} to {{NixOS Manual|name=systemPackages|anchor=#sec-package-management}}.
-VA-API is enabled by default now in Chromium. Check chrome://gpu if it is working and if VA is detected. You may need to enable Hardware-accelerated video decode in chrome://flags.
+== Accelerated video playback ==
-Make sure the required VA-API drivers are installed: [[Accelerated Video Playback]]
+Make sure [[Accelerated Video Playback]] is setup on the system properly. Check {{ic|chrome://gpu}} to see if Chromium has enabled hardware acceleration.
-Make sure your driver works by running: <code>nix-shell -p libva-utils --run vainfo</code>
+If accelerated video playback is not working, check relevant flags at {{ic|chrome://flags}}, or enable them using the cli:
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
-== Gnome Shell extensions ==
+{
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
-Gnome Shell extensions can be enabled with <code>enableGnomeExtensions = true</code>. It is a mozilla plugin, therefore it does not work currently with Chromium.
+    (chromium.override {
+      commandLineArgs = [
+        "--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecodeLinuxGL"
+        "--ignore-gpu-blocklist"
+        "--enable-zero-copy"
+      ];
+    })
+  ];
+}
+</nowiki>}}
 == Enabling native Wayland support ==
-Since Nixos 22.05 you can turn on native wayland support in all chrome and most electron apps by setting an environment variable: <code>environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1"</code> ([https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/unstable/release-notes.html#sec-release-22.05-notable-changes see notable changes])
+You can turn on native Wayland support in all chrome and most electron apps by setting an environment variable: <code>environment.sessionVariables.NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1"</code>.
-In earlier versions you can enable wayland support by setting the appropriate command-line flags:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-nixpkgs.config.chromium.commandLineArgs = "--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland";
-</syntaxhighlight>
-== Overriding Chromium ==
-Note: This section was never properly tested. Please update it accordingly if you notice issues with the examples and feel free to extend it.
-To create a customized Chromium the following approach can be used:
-<pre>
-chromium.mkDerivation (base: { name = "my-chromium"; gnFlags = { test_flag = 42; }; })
-</pre>
-It should also be possible to override a Chromium attribute using <pre>chromium.browser.overrideAttrs ...</pre>.
+== Enabling DRM (Widevine support) ==
+By default, {{nixos:package|chromium}} does not support playing DRM protected media. However, there is a build time flag to include the unfree Widevine blob from nixpkgs:
+{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
+{
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    (chromium.override { enableWideVine = true; })
+  ];
+}
+</nowiki>}}
-[[Category:Configuration]]
 [[Category:Applications]]