NixOS Home Manager module + Hyprland flake?

[mattephi]

I have the following structure:

NixOS Flake:

• configuration.nix

programs.hyprland = {
      enable = true;
      xwayland.enable = true;
      package = hyprland.packages.${system}.hyprland;
      portalPackage = hyprland.packages.${system}.xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland;
    };

• home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager - home.nix

  wayland.windowManager.hyprland = {
      enable = true;
      xwayland.enable = true;
      systemd.variables = [ "--all" ];
      plugins = [ pkgs.hyprlandPlugins.hyprscroller ];
      package = null;
      portalPackage = null;
  };
  

If I remove fields programs.hyprland.package and programs.hyprland.portalPackage from configuration.nix, it works as expected, home manager uses packages from nixos module and adds plugins.

However, if I use the versions from flakes, plugins does not seem to load.

If there is a problem with the logic of imports, let me know, I think I tried to follow the wiki quite close.

[mattephi]

Here is the complete setup which works, if I uncomment packages which derive from flake, plugin does not load

[fufexan]

There may have been a bit of confusion here.

What's happening is:

1. You use the HM module with both packages set to null -> HM will not manage any packages, only configuration files.
2. You're using versioned plugins (from Nixpkgs, pkgs.)
3. You're trying to use flake packages (programs.hyprland.package/portalPackage).

Removing the explicit package definitions works because you're essentially using Hyprland from Nixpkgs with plugins from Nixpkgs, which are meant to work together. However, using flake Hyprland with plugins from Nixpkgs does not work, as the versions differ.

If you still want to use that plugin with the flake Hyprland, you can directly try out the plugin flake (if any), or override the plugin to use a more recent version.