nix-gl-installer

The nix-gl-installer addresses the "OpenGL problem" on Nix by installing a user-space driver into /run/opengl-driver. It has been tested on NVIDIA and Intel GPUs.

Usage

Note

Running this script with root privileges may lead to driver detection failure. Please execute it with user privileges.

Installation

Execute the following commands to download and run the nix-gl-installer:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pylgos/nix-gl-installer/main/nix-gl-installer -o nix-gl-installer
bash ./nix-gl-installer

Uninstallation

To remove the installed nix-gl-installer, run the following command:

/opt/nix-gl-installer/nix-gl-installer uninstall

Activation

If auto-activation was not enabled during installation, you need to activate it on every startup with the following command:

/opt/nix-gl-installer/nix-gl-installer activate

Credits

This script is heavily inspired by the following projects.

• https://github.com/guibou/nixGL.git
• https://github.com/deepfire/nix-install-vendor-gl.git