Making X work in NixOS (fixing guide) Mouse * for mouse support /dev/input/mice needs to be there. This device can be created either automatically with udev, or manually with mknod. Fonts Right now fonts have to be copied from another machine and put into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Config in services/trunk/configurations/tyros.cs.uu.nl-xorg/ there is a Nix expression which builds a working X configuration for use in VMware.