How to Wrap NixGL Around Package in Home Manager
I use Nix mainly with home manager on my Ubuntu laptop, and for the most part, it works fine. However, some apps installed using Nix, need to use nixGL. A wrapper tool for OpenGL, allowing Nix installed tooling to use the system’s OpenGL and Vulkan APIs. Some apps including kitty and Firefox (mainly for Google Meet). There is currently a branch in home-manager we can pull into our config, which provides a convenient way to wrap these apps in nixGL rather than needing to specify say nixGLIntel kitty in our terminal or say Hyprland config (key bindings). ...