GNOME dark-mode wallpaper fails on NixOS rebuilds
Changing the GNOME dark-mode wallpaper on NixOS requires writing into the read-only Nix store, so changes break on rebuild.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 29 September 2026 · last reported 2 October 2026
What's going wrong
On NixOS, people who want GNOME to switch between light and dark wallpapers often end up writing image files straight into the read-only Nix store.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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