From fd2bc150d85ef3eb2aa1c6d43f2db9e67516c9f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Helgesson Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:29:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] faq: add entry about missing `ca.desrt.dconf` --- FAQ.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index f4915692..141ecc6e 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -104,3 +104,18 @@ You can get some inspiration from the [Post your home-manager home.nix file!][1] Reddit thread. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/9bb9h9/post_your_homemanager_homenix_file/ + +Why do I get an error message about `ca.desrt.dconf`? +----------------------------------------------------- + +You are most likely trying to configure the GTK or Gnome Terminal but +the DBus session is not aware of the dconf service. The full error you +might get is + + error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name ca.desrt.dconf was not provided by any .service files + +The solution on NixOS is to add + + services.dbus.packages = with pkgs; [ gnome3.dconf ]; + +to your system configuration.