Installation

Prerequisites : You must have installed the Nix Package Manager on your system. Instructions can be found here.

Install home-manager command

The file ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix contains the declarative specification of your Home Manager configuration. The install command below will symlink a machine-specific file into ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix.

git clone https://github.com/maxild/home-config.git
git submodule update --init
git submodule update --remote
chmod u+x install.sh
./install.sh machines/[macbook|ubuntu_wsl|popos].nix

Change the default shell to ZSH

sudo sh -c "echo $(which zsh) >> /etc/shells" && chsh -s $(which zsh)

The change requires a reboot in order for SHELL variable to change.

Configure user environment

Edit the common.nix file (it play the role of a home.nix file, and imports a lot of other modules) and run

home-manager switch

Vendor

To update the home-manager release-20.03 branch

git submodule update --remote

Notes

When you are using a distribution other than NixOS, then your desktop environment (GNOME) will be looking for your applications in /usr/share/applications while those installed with Nix are actually in ~/.nix-profile/share/applications.

It is important to note that the path needs to be added to this variable before your desktop manager is started. How this is accomplished will vary by distro and/or login manager.

Idea for creating symlinks, if XDG_DATA_DIRS cannot be picked up by GNOME find ~/nix-profile/share/applications -type l -exec ln -s $HOME/{} $HOME/.local/share/applications

NOTE: Place desktop file in the /usr/share/applications directory so that it is accessible by everyone, or in ~/.local/share/applications if you only wish to make it accessible to a single user.

Add ~/.nix-profile/share to XDG_DATA_DIRS in order for GNOME to pickup desktop files export XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.nix-profile/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}"

TODO: Symlink ~/.nix-profile/share/applications into ~/.local/share/applications TODO: patch/overlay/add the postInstall phase such that desktop file have absolute path to Icon file: sed -re 's@Icon=bcompare(dev)?[0-9.]-?@Icon=@' -i "$out/share/applications/".desktop Update the path to the kitty icon in the kitty.desktop file sed -i "s/Icon=kitty/Icon=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png/g"
~/.local/share/applications/kitty.desktop

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