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Vivaldi is a web browser by the Norwegian company Vivaldi Technologies.

Installation

Simply install the vivaldi package.

Get it working with KDE Plasma 6

Currently Vivaldi crashes at startup on KDE Plasma 6 due to improper packaging.^[1] A workaround for this is to override the package attributes like the following.

(vivaldi.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
  dontWrapQtApps = false;
  dontPatchELF = true;
  nativeBuildInputs = oldAttrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [pkgs.kdePackages.wrapQtAppsHook];
}))

Force use of password store (KWallet, GNOME Keyring)

To force of specific password store you will have to use flags according to chromium docs.

Below is an example that modifies the package attributes. Use gnome-libsecret for GNOME Keyring and kwallet6 for KDE Plasma 6

(vivaldi.override {
  commandLineArgs = "--password-store=kwallet6";
})

↑ https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292148 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/310755

[1] ttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292148 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/310755

[1]

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 == Installation ==
-add <code>vivaldi</code> to your <code>environment.systemPackages</code> and rebuild your system configuration.
+Simply [[Adding programs to PATH|install]] the <code>vivaldi</code> package.
-== Get it working with plasma 6 ==
+== Get it working with KDE Plasma 6 ==
-Currently, vivaldi crash at startup on plasma6 due to improper packaging<ref>https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292148
+Currently Vivaldi crashes at startup on KDE Plasma 6 due to improper packaging.<ref>https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/292148
-https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/310755</ref>, a workaround to this is to override the default package attributes by adding the following to your <code>environment.systemPackages</code> :<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
+https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/310755</ref> A workaround for this is to override the package attributes like the following.<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
-(vivaldi.overrideAttrs
+(vivaldi.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
-      (oldAttrs: {
+  dontWrapQtApps = false;
-        dontWrapQtApps = false;
+  dontPatchELF = true;
-        dontPatchELF = true;
+  nativeBuildInputs = oldAttrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [pkgs.kdePackages.wrapQtAppsHook];
-        nativeBuildInputs = oldAttrs.nativeBuildInputs ++ [pkgs.kdePackages.wrapQtAppsHook];
+}))
-      }))
 </syntaxhighlight>
+== Force use of password store (KWallet, GNOME Keyring) ==
+To force of specific password store you will have to use flags according to [https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux/password_storage.md chromium docs].
+Below is an example that modifies the package attributes. Use <code>gnome-libsecret</code> for GNOME Keyring and <code>kwallet6</code> for KDE Plasma 6<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+(vivaldi.override {
+  commandLineArgs = "--password-store=kwallet6";
+})
+</syntaxhighlight>
 [[Category:Applications]]
 [[Category:Web Browser]]