Hey everyone 
Recently Iāve been bumping into an old issue of mine. Scroll speed with Gnomeā¦
Itās just way too fast on some applications. Native/Gtk applications seem to handle it fine; Others like Firefox or warp-terminal etc are scrolling way too fast on the touchpad 2 finger scrolling. Am I the only one with this problem? Iāve looked for an answer and found multiple issue and bug reports that only resulted in dying out. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
Cheers!
And another issue has arisen. Upgraded to NixOS 24.05 and now when I shutdown the laptop it kinda stays active? It says ātarget reached: Shutdownā or sth on the screen. Everythingās good so far, but then it turns off, but the power button and keyboard backlight stays on. Not even that the last time I shut it off. I turned it on later and was greeted by 0% battery chargeā¦ Did anyone have the same problem?
nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
- host os: `Linux 6.6.32, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240531.63dacb4`
- multi-user?: `yes`
- sandbox: `yes`
- version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2`
- channels(<user>): `"nixos-23.11, nixpkgs"`
- channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
- nixpkgs: `/home/<user>/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs
I saw that too. I solved it by using the latest kernel:
boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
If you want to avoid the latest kernel for whatever reason, you can apply the patch yourself from this issue Cannot shutdown laptop with linux6.6-6.6.31_1 Ā· Issue #50417 Ā· void-linux/void-packages Ā· GitHub like so:
boot.kernelPatches = [
{
name = "framework13shutdownfix";
patch = builtins.fetchurl {
url = "https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/files/15445612/0001-Add-hopefully-a-solution-for-shutdown-regression.PATCH";
sha256 = "sha256:10zcnzy5hkam2cnxx441b978gzhvnqlcc49k7bpz9dc28xyjik50";
};
}
];
This will mean your machine will need to compile the kernel, though 
GNOME doesnāt expose touchpad scroll speed, unfortunately. Itās been a deal breaker for me for awhile. This isnāt an issue with KDE.
Update on my weird graphics issues. After working with support, theyāve determined itās a hardware issue (DOA) and Iāll be receiving a replacement mainboard shortly.
cool! I had that with my 13th gen mainboard. I shouldāve talked to support, I wonder if itās been too long now
oh I did a nix flake update to latest unstable and the KDE keylight adjuster just works out of the box. Perhaps this means keylightd is no longer needed?
Hello there! thankyou for reading this- iām still an beginner in Nixos, but i pulled back because i didnāt know how to install applications that wasnāt listed in the nixos packages, so long story short, how does one install applications that is non-nixos packages? iāve done some research on this and i still donāt know how to do it. Thankyou for your help,
Generally youāll want to package the software yourself, which isnāt as hard as it sounds. See Packaging existing software with Nix ā nix.dev documentation for instructions.
Another quick and dirty way is using GitHub - Mic92/nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS. This way you can run unpatched dynamic binaries not packaged for Nix.
This Stackexchange post also has some more info on the topic.
Different methods to run a non-nixos executable on Nixos - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
In the long run, if you use the software often youāll want to package it. Also always do some searching if the software you are trying to run is already packaged by someone else for instance in the nix community packages.
Thankyou so much!! what about using different vpns thatās non-nixos? would that be harder to do?
I havenāt dabbled with VPNs on NixOS yet, but you can check if the VPN you are trying to use is packaged for NixOS, for instance Mullvad and Nordvpn are both packaged for NixOS.
If not you can check, if your VPN implements either OpenVPN or Wireguard, if it does, you can just add it using the options provided by the corresponding wiki article.
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/VPN
If both options donāt apply, you might have to try and package the VPN for NixOS, which might be a bit more difficult since VPNs often have some other custom rules but itās definitely possible.
thanks 
Thanks Matt!! i checked the Determinate installer, how would i install it on an brand new Framework laptop that has no Os? do i have to make an Usb drive installer, then use it during the boot? there is no instructions on how to do this on Zero to Nix, thankyou
You donāt need the Determinate Nix installer, it serves a completely different purpose. Just do a standard NixOS installation.
yes thanks, its easier that way, i think Determinate installer is for more suitable advanced users or programmers
The Determinate installer is for a completely different problem, namely that you have a preexisting operating system and want to run Nix inside it, in parallel to what it already has. Itās a Nix installer, not a NixOS installerāthe distinction is important in this case.
An analogous operation in the more conventional Linux distro world would be something like installing RPM and DNF to a Debian system and then attempting to install packages using those, except of course it wouldnāt work, whereas Nix uses a separate directory hierarchy under /nix so it does. Installing NixOS, by contrast, would be like installing Fedora: there are no coexistence problems because thereās no coexistence happening.
Thankyou for explaining it, i appreciate, although i see that Determninate installer uses Rust language for Nix, would it be possible for NixOs to be based upon Rust rather than Bash? if iām asking the right question
Hello again, does anyone know how do create short cut keys on nixos easier way? e.g. i want to open firefox just by clicking Ctrl+Shift+f, can i do this on Gnome shortcuts? or do i have to write it in the config file? that is the firefox was installed using nixos pkgs, thanks
Iām not a moderator or anything, but these kinds of questions are better suited for the NixOS discussion forums: https://discourse.nixos.org/