My Nix Dot files

• Dotfiles managed by Home Manager
• Neovim setup with NixVim
• Theming with Stylix
• Secret management with Agenix

Repo Structure

• flake.nix the sources for all software, eg. nixpkgs, home-manager, and stylix.
• wallpapers my collection of wallpapers. I haven't found a cleaner solution than including them in the repo 🤷
• configs all the possible configurations
  • hosts the configs for individual systems such as laptops, desktops, servers
    • hostname
      • configuration.nix some basic configs option for the system (bootloader, timezone, etc) TODO move configs out of here
      • hardware-configuration.nix config for the system's hardware
      • system contains all system configurations
        • graphics configs for wayland, stylix
        • packages system level packages that should be installed
        • services configs for services that run on the system (greeter, CUPS, etc)
        • system system level configs (timezone, hostname, bootloader, etc)
  • uses configs for individual users on these system and their dotfiles
    • username
      • home.nix the basic setup for the user, and where all other HM configs are imported
      • configs config files for various programs
      • packages the packages to be installed for that user
      • scripts helper scripts with various functionality
      • secrets encrypted secrets and their configuration

Setup Instructions

Home manager

nix run #.homeConfigurations.gideon.activationPackage

SSH

to switch this repo over to SSH to push any changes and be authed SSH keys must exist

git remote set-url origin github:gideonwolfe/nix

TODO

Initial steps required for setup

• Calendars and Contacts

  • vdirsyncer discover calendar_gmail to initialize auth to vdirsyncer
  • vdirsyncer discover contacts_gmail to initialize auth to vdirsyncer
  • there's a couple things you have to agree too, like creating the local calendar files, how to automate this?

• Set up browser plugins

  • ~/.config/darkreader/darkreader.json needs to be manually imported via darkreader settings (FF and Chromium)
  • New Tab Override (FF) and New Tab URL (Chromium) needs to be set to point at http://localhost:9876

• Discord

  • Vesktop has to be launched for a first time setup
  • You have to select "Stylix" theme in "Theme" settings page
  • Can I force enable this through settings.json? Maybe use JQ
  • Login

• KDE Connect

  • Add your device

• Signal Desktop

  • Verify/add device

Nixvim

• lualine config not advanced enough for me to inject mode formatting function
  • I checked in matrix and they want to fix/update this

Vesktop

• Find way to automate plugin installation (in settings.json) but there are "stateful" lines in that file, how to programatically chnge? JQ?
• Find a way to automate theme selection to stylix (settings.json)
• change the color values in top level settings.json for splash screen, it doesn't use hex though

Real Time Audio (for music production)

https://github.com/musnix/musnix

Add theme to cli-visualizer

command is vis, takes a config file with a theme

https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration

Add custom icons of some sort

Change workspace icon when new window opened

like if I click a link and it opens a tab in FF in another workspace, that workspace icon should get a highlight. I think its called urgent or something

Add theme to audacity

seems to have a "Custom" option for theme

Configure spicetify

https://github.com/the-argus/spicetify-nix lets you specify custom colors in nix Already installed this, works well with preset themes. Now need to make a stylix theme

Hardware only stuff (can't really config in VM)

• Multi monitor outputs
• Bluetooth (should be configured already)
• Virtual machines (should be configured already)
• Backlight control (already have module but need to test)
• Hibernation/sleep

Seahorse won't import SSH key

Could not display “<key_name>”
Reason:	Unrecognized or unsupported data.

is it because the keys aren't in .ssh? I don't think that's been an issue before

Emoji fonts rendering as colored emoji

I have emoji font specified in stylix as Symbola, and fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.emoji = ["Symbola"]

I have symbola and noto-fonts-monochrome-emoji installed, which both seem to be showing in gucharmap

It's just not changing the system emoji font :(

Qt Theming

Ongoing discussion on Stylix github, how to access these new features?

nix-community/stylix#367

Build UI Elements

Window switcher

to switch between windows on all workspaces

Fancy logout/shortcut/power menu

on old system it was build with rofi, but this will change

Set up Hyprland

hard to do in a VM since it runs like shite

Improve waybar media playing module

maybe this third party one https://github.com/raffaem/waybar-mediaplayer or just hack on it

Add waybar desktop notification toggle

maybe adapt https://github.com/vkraven/swankybar to toggle notifications instead of adaptive sync

Misc

• cava continues to hear audio even when system vol is muted

Wanted Packages

• https://github.com/joouha/euporie - TUI Jupyter notebooks
• https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC - TUI API Client (like postman)
• https://github.com/cyring/CoreFreq - CPU monitoring module
• https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin - TUI Database IDE
• https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol - TUI molecular viewer
• https://github.com/darrenburns/elia - TUI for LLMs
• https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m - TUI for making mind maps
• https://github.com/Chleba/netscanner - TUI for scanning networks