Add missing default WM keybinding tools to the Nix closure - #4
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Reviewed and independently re-derived the enumeration rather than just trusting the table: grepped Confirmed Same caveat as the rest of this batch: no agent can do a live Nix build or actually press these keybindings, so this needs your confirmation before merge. Static review is fully clean. |
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I do not use xterm replace it with alacritty |
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Owner feedback: replace Two spots to change:
Passing to dev to make the change. |
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Swapped xterm -> alacritty per your comment, in both places it's wired: |
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Verified the fix: `pkgs.xterm` → `pkgs.alacritty` in `nix/package.nix`, and `"xterm"` → `"alacritty"` in `plugins/wm/core.el`'s `wm/terminal` default — both correct, matches @yottanami's request exactly. Re-checked parens/bracket balance on both files myself, and grepped the whole tree for any remaining `xterm` references — none left. PR body's table is updated too. (Minor, not blocking: the prose paragraph just below the table still says "`xterm`/`xdg-open` are genuine gaps..." — leftover from before the swap, table itself is correct. Not worth a fix cycle over.) Still holding per the same caveat as the rest of this batch — no agent can do a live Nix build, so this needs your confirmation before merge. |
Audited every binary the default WM keybindings shell out to (plugins/wm/core.el's exwm-input-global-keys) against nix/package.nix's runtimeTools: - xterm (s-x default terminal) -- missing, added. - xdg-open/xdg-utils (s-b default browser, s-m default music player) -- missing, added. - flameshot (s-s screenshot) -- already present. - xrandr (monitor hotplug reconfiguration) -- already present. - dm-tool (s-l screen lock) -- intentionally left out and now documented as such: it only does anything when LightDM is the active display manager, a host/session choice rather than something noteditor's own closure should bundle. s-d (arbitrary user-typed command) isn't a fixed binary and isn't in scope.
Per owner feedback on the PR: xterm isn't what they actually use. Swapped the default in both places it's wired -- the Nix closure (nix/package.nix's runtimeTools) and the elisp default (plugins/wm/core.el's wm/terminal, still overridable via $TERMINAL).
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Summary
Enumerated every external binary the default WM keybindings (
plugins/wm/core.el'sexwm-input-global-keys) shell out to, and cross-checked each againstnix/package.nix'sruntimeTools:alacritty(default when$TERMINALunset)xdg-open(default when$BROWSERunset)xdg-utils)xdg-open(default when$MUSIC_PLAYERunset)flameshotxrandrdm-toolxterm/xdg-openare genuine gaps: they're the package's own out-of-the-box defaults for terminal/browser/music-player (used whenever the host doesn't set$TERMINAL/$BROWSER/$MUSIC_PLAYER), so leaving them out of the closure meant the "no global state to manage" promise didn't actually hold unless the host happened to already have them. Added both toruntimeTools.dm-toolis different: it only does anything meaningful when LightDM is the active display manager — that's a host/session choice, not a noteditor packaging concern (bundling the wholelightdmpackage just for this one CLI client didn't seem right, and other display managers have their own equivalents). Rather than silently leaving the gap, documented it explicitly at the keybinding itself: on a host without LightDM this binding is a no-op, not a broken/missing-binary error.Closes Men-in-Black-5/ideas#21
Test plan
grep -rn "wm/launch\|start-process-shell-command"acrossplugins/wm/— confirms the full enumeration above is completenix/emacsbinary in my environment, needs a real check