Chromium: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:43, 26 September 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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-== Gnome Shell extensions ==
-Gnome Shell extensions can be enabled with <code>enableGnomeExtensions = true</code>. It is a mozilla plugin, therefore it does not work currently with Chromium.
 == 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]]
+[[Category:Web Browser]]