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The installation of Qtile leads to several of its dependencies being leaked in the user's PATH. This prevents the user from running a custom installation of python3 as Qtile will shadow the systemPackages in the PATH with its own python3. For more information see: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171972 Kitty leaks packages into system environment (Additional context)] | The installation of Qtile leads to several of its dependencies being leaked in the user's PATH. This prevents the user from running a custom installation of python3 as Qtile will shadow the systemPackages in the PATH with its own python3. For more information see: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/186243 Cannot use Globally Defined Python Environment While Inside Qtile] and [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171972 Kitty leaks packages into system environment (Additional context)] | ||
[[Category:Window managers]] | [[Category:Window managers]] | ||
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Revision as of 21:40, 3 January 2023
Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.
Enabling
To enable Qtile as your windowManager, set: services.xserver.windowManager.qtile.enable to true. For example:
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
...
services.xserver.windowManager.qtile.enable = true;
...
}
Warning
The installation of Qtile leads to several of its dependencies being leaked in the user's PATH. This prevents the user from running a custom installation of python3 as Qtile will shadow the systemPackages in the PATH with its own python3. For more information see: Cannot use Globally Defined Python Environment While Inside Qtile and Kitty leaks packages into system environment (Additional context)