From b6139e58e3ae82a7574b1e99b0601f50d01a2aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Forsman <axelsfor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 20:52:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/picom: add experimentalBackends option

This option is only available as a command-line flag and not from the
config file, that is `services.picom.settings`. Therefore it is more
important that it gets its own option.

One reason one might need this set is that blur methods other than
kernel do not work with the old backends, see yshui/picom#464.

For reference, the home-manager picom module exposes this option too.
---
 nixos/modules/services/x11/picom.nix | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/picom.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/picom.nix
index 1289edd2904..977d0fea219 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/picom.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/picom.nix
@@ -57,7 +57,15 @@ in {
       type = types.bool;
       default = false;
       description = ''
-        Whether of not to enable Picom as the X.org composite manager.
+        Whether or not to enable Picom as the X.org composite manager.
+      '';
+    };
+
+    experimentalBackends = mkOption {
+      type = types.bool;
+      default = false;
+      description = ''
+        Whether to use the unstable new reimplementation of the backends.
       '';
     };
 
@@ -302,7 +310,8 @@ in {
       };
 
       serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = "${pkgs.picom}/bin/picom --config ${configFile}";
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.picom}/bin/picom --config ${configFile}"
+          + (optionalString cfg.experimentalBackends " --experimental-backends");
         RestartSec = 3;
         Restart = "always";
       };