Add qtile to xsession.windowManager.

[taitep]

Description

Recently got into nixos, and home-manager really seemed cool. Decided to try making a qtile config with it, and i realized that qtile is not a part of home-manager's collection of window managers! Even if it just allows you to maybe give a config.py file, it would be kinda convenient to just do xsession.windowManager.qtile.enable = true and get qtile.

[Noodlez1232]

I wanted to try this out, but what about something like this (A mock-up of a configuration)

{
   xsession.windowManager.qtile = {
      enable = true;
      # Using a path to symlink to the QTile config.py
      configFile = ./config.py;
      # Using a straight string to put into the QTile config.py
      configFile = ''
         print("Hello world!")
         # Insert QTile script here
      '';
      # Using a package's file to put into the QTile config.py
      configFile = (pkgs.writeText "config.py" ''
         print("Hello world!")
         # Insert QTile script here
      '');
   };
}

Wondering what would, at the end of the day, be more useful for a QTile configuration. I don't use QTile, but I would love to help.

It's worth noting that you can actually do this yourself by using a config similar to this:

{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
{
   # Add qtile to the packages
   home.packages = [ pkgs.qtile ];
   # Set the windowManager command to qtile
   xsession.windowManager.command = "${lib.getExe pkgs.qtile}";
   # Add the config.py file to the config directory
   xdg.configFile."qtile/config.py" = {
      source = ./config.py; # Assumes you have a config.py file in the same directory as this nix file.
      # See xdg.configFile in the home manager options.
   };
}

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