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I'm liking #gossip a lot so far, but having some glitches running it on #NixOS:

- can't seem to get SDL2 (or libsdl2-dev) installed correctly (video works, but not audio) - this is most likely not a gossip, but have you seen any workarounds?

- cursor weirdness

- is it by design that I can only call it from the command line?

Generally, just looking for any tips you might have for running this on, specifically, NixOS.

TIA

Mike Dilger ☑️ 11mo ago

All I know about NixOS is that it is some flavour of linux and is yet-another-packaging-target.

SDL was written by my old friend Slouken from UC Davis, but that was back in the early/mid 90's written for porting Maelstrom and I haven't spoken to him since I was at UC Davis so this is really just trivia.

Cursor weirdness is more like something I might be able to understand, but I haven't had any. The only cursor is inside of text fields like the compose box. What kind of weirdness do you notice?

You don't have to call it from the command line. Most operating systems have ways to link programs to launchers. But i recommend launching a terminal and running it in the terminal so you can see the terminal output.

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 11mo ago

Doesn't sound 'trivial' to me! Cool to have that history...

Here's what I see in the output:

```

2025-01-17T23:39:07.382256Z WARN /build/cargo-vendor-dir/winit-0.29.15/src/platform_impl/linux/wayland/window/state.rs:708: Failed to set cursor to Default

```

...replace that last word 'Default' with 'Text' and multiply it a dozen times or so, and that's what I keep seeing.

I didn't install from source (I don't know how to do that on NixOS [yet]), just pointed to the package on https://search.nixos.com (v0.12.0).

A separate issue is that for some reason I cannot get SDL2 to install and be recognized--but that's NixOS-specific, not an issue with gossip.

I'm using gossip now so it's usable, and I like it quite a bit--just a few minor annoyance is all. Thank you for writing it!

Mike Dilger ☑️ 11mo ago

0.13 is much improved, Too bad there isn't a nix package for it yet. It might fix the cursor warnings too.

Nick 11mo ago

Are you using the unstable channel? SDL2 stuff was cleared up for me with this tweak to the package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/db6be866d53a65f0081792b05cb37c2a21e5ef89

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 11mo ago

That cleared the sdl2 warning for me (and provided me the motivation to add my first unstable package!). TY!

Still having cursor weirdness (and no app icon) but I think I probably messed up something to do with wayland.

Nick 11mo ago

Yea, I am running Wayland too and had to add some settings in home manager for my cursor. Only issue I still have with gossip is the scrolling feels very different than my other apps. But hard to track down why.

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 11mo ago

I have avoided the home-manager rabbit hole, but would take another stab at it just for gossip...

I increased the inertial scrolling to 1.5 and it's much better, imo. Scrolling via touchpad, mainly.

Nick 11mo ago

I avoided hm for as long as I could too. It still feels very heavy, but has iron’d out a few quirks like this.