{pkgs, config, ...}: ###### interface let inherit (pkgs.lib) mkOption mkIf; uid = (import ../../../system/ids.nix).uids.pulseaudio; gid = (import ../../../system/ids.nix).gids.pulseaudio; options = { services = { pulseaudio = { enable = mkOption { default = false; description = '' Whether to enable the PulseAudio system-wide audio server. Note that the documentation recommends running PulseAudio daemons per-user rather than system-wide on desktop machines. ''; }; logLevel = mkOption { default = "notice"; example = "debug"; description = '' A string denoting the log level: one of error, warn, notice, info, or debug. ''; }; }; }; }; in ###### implementation # For some reason, PulseAudio wants UID == GID. assert uid == gid; mkIf config.services.pulseaudio.enable { require = [ options ]; environment = { extraPackages = [pkgs.pulseaudio]; }; users = { extraUsers = [ { name = "pulse"; inherit uid; group = "pulse"; description = "PulseAudio system-wide daemon"; home = "/var/run/pulse"; } ]; extraGroups = [ { name = "pulse"; inherit gid; } ]; }; services = { extraJobs = [{ name = "pulseaudio"; job = '' description "PulseAudio system-wide server" start on startup stop on shutdown start script test -d /var/run/pulse || \ ( mkdir -p --mode 755 /var/run/pulse && \ chown pulse:pulse /var/run/pulse ) end script respawn ${pkgs.pulseaudio}/bin/pulseaudio \ --system --daemonize \ --log-level="${config.services.pulseaudio.logLevel}" ''; }]; }; }