Nixos ydtools permission denied socket

To get ydotool running on Nixos Plasma with KDE you just need to:

  programs.ydotool = {
    enable = true;
  };

You need to also add yourself to to ydotool group.

#/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  users.users.brent = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" "ydotool" ];
  };
  # ...
}

This will fix the permission denied error when trying to run ydotool on Nixos.

~ ❯ ydotool click
failed to connect socket /run/ydotoold/socket': Permission denied
Please check if the current user has sufficient permissions to access the socket file.

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