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Missing .config/ags/config.js (NixOS, Flakes, Home Manager)

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Hi, I am struggling to get ags working with flakes and homemanager (not standalone). I am building my configuration based off of https://github.com/linuxmobile/kaku. When running nixos-rebuild switch --flake home manager would not create a config.js file nor an ags folder in the ~/.config directory.

Using the sample home manager module provided as well as reading the options in hm-module.nix I deduced (incorrectly) that I needed to add programs.ags.configDir = ../ags; to my https://github.com/linuxmobile/kaku/blob/580d755a9f858677c0ef5c070aac3c3fa8f194e5/home/services/ags/default.nix. What this did was symlink a copy of my default.nix in a new ~/.config/ags directory. The description of configDir reads:

The directory to symlink to {file}$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ags

If I read https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/b3d5ea65d88d67d4ec578ed11d4d2d51e3de525e/home-manager/home-manager#L174 correctly this quite literally means that using programs.ags.configDir = ../ags; symlinks my ags nix configuation from /etc/nixos/home/services/ags/default.nix to ~/.config/ags/default.nix.

How do I go about generating /nix/store/#-home-manager-files/.config/ags/config.js and linking it to ~/.config/ags/config.js?

Thanks for your time and sorry for the noob question.

commented

You would have to ask the author of that repo for source code as there doesn't seem to be any source of their ags config. Which from the single screenshot in their readme seems to be an unmodified version of mine.

programs.ags.configDir = ../ags literally means to copy the directory ../ags to the nix store and symlink that to ~/.config/ags. I am assuming you cloned this repo in which case, ../ags refers to a directory that only has a default.nix file in it.

commented

Wow thanks for answering so fast!

To make sure I understand you completely:

  1. The repo I cloned is missing a config.js
    and
  2. Following your home manager implementation (and its implied file structure) would mean that I need to create the config.js file in /etc/nixos/ags?

If so, this makes so much sense now and I know exactly what to do.

Additionally, when you said they used an unmodified version of your config would that be the simple-bar in your examples?

Thanks again for your time.

commented
  1. yes
  2. it doesn't matter where you store you config files, since you can import them from anywhere, file structure depends on your personal preference

Additionally, when you said they used an unmodified version of your config would that be the simple-bar in your examples?

I was referring to my setup

commented

Ok, awesome. I'm gonna try it out with the simple-bar example and go from there.

Your setup looks amazing!

When I work through the docs to personalize my config I'm going to be referencing your dots alot.

Last noob question. Are the application launcher and notification popups drop in replacements for rofi and dunst respectively?