Zed Missing Title Bar / can't move window [nixos]

[sidharthpunathil]

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Describe the bug / provide steps to reproduce it

• I am not able to drag and move the nixos window with mouse
• I can double tap on the top bar to maximise
• There is no close button or maximise button for zed

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Zed.log

[notpeter]

Could you please paste your Zed environment (most importantly Zed version)?

Open the command palette (ctrl-shift-p) and zed: copy system specs to clipboard.

[JuliusDeBoer]

The fact that there is no close or maximize button makes me think this issue is similar to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/16344. Could you please tell us which version of zed you are running like notpeter suggested?

[blessedbythestorm]

Getting the same on nixos with plasma KDE. I seem unable to move the main editor window by dragging it with the mouse.

Zed: v1.0.0 (Zed) OS: Linux 1.0.0 Memory: 30.6 GiB Architecture: x86_64

[notpeter]

@blessedbythestorm How did you install Zed? The Zed version (v1.0.0) and OS (Linux 1.0.0) you provided do not correspond to what should be displayed from a Zed official binary.

Are you perhaps running NixOS on the 24.05 channel which is shipping v0.135.2 (from 2024-05-15)? Can you try with v0.149.3 from the NixOS unstable channel?

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I don't know the NixOS packaging policies but it is definitely a waste of Zed team members' time to have users reporting issues against an orphaned pre-release unofficial build of Zed which has been abandoned by NixOS maintainers.

@GaetanLepage and @niklaskorz: You two are listed as NixOS package maintainers for the zed-editor package. I understand that the 24.05 channel is meant to receive "fewer" updates than unstable but I think users are extremely poorly served by being served an known broken build. I noticed that other packages in 24.05, for example firefox, are continuously updated (current Firefox v129.0.2 is from 2024-08-20; two days ago).

Is it possible to give Zed the same treatment in NixOS 24.05?

[blessedbythestorm]

@notpeter I installed it via the nix package manager.

environment.systemPackages = [
   pkgs.zed-editor
 ];

Sorry, I assumed getting it through the stable channel would have the latest stable version. Will give the unstable channel a try.

[niklaskorz]

@notpeter That won't be possible, as the latest Zed releases require Rust 1.80 to build. As Rust 1.80 introduced backwards incompatible regressions, I doubt it will be backported to 24.05.

Edit: NixOS 24.05 ships with Rust 1.77. If the Zed maintainers are willing to downgrade to 1.77 as MSRV, I guess we could talk about backporting new Zed versions to NixOS 24.05.

[notpeter]

I didn't realize it was Rust thing. Sigh. I don't think we're likely to do that at this stage. Thanks for explaining.

I wish we could pull that old package from NixOS 24.05 completely.

[GaetanLepage]

I wish we could pull that old package from NixOS 24.05 completely.

I think that this is feasible/sensible. If the version currently on nixos-24.05 is not stable and not suited for usage (especially in a supposedly "stable" software repository), then I guess that we can make this happen.

I definitely understand you not wanted to get bothered by reports about this version.

[notpeter]

Thank you @GaetanLepage, I think everyone will be happier if they can't install a known bad package, I appreciate you taking care of it. Separately, I wanted to express my appreciation of your maintenance of the package in the first place. Package maintenance is anonymous, largely thankless work, but let me explicitly say: Thank you. We appreciate your efforts.

[GaetanLepage]

Thank you @GaetanLepage, I think everyone will be happier if they can't install a known bad package, I appreciate you taking care of it. Separately, I wanted to express my appreciation of your maintenance of the package in the first place. Package maintenance is anonymous, largely thankless work, but let me explicitly say: Thank you. We appreciate your efforts.

You are welcome ! This is indeed the least worst solution.

I am glad to make it possible for the growing nix user-base to enjoy zed ! We currently only support the linux build. We are waiting for you to switch to the rust-based version of livekit in order to ship the darwin version.

Best of luck with Zed's development :)