Personal NixOS config with Flake and Home Manager

Screenshots

The old Arch config at Arch branch.

Why switch to NixOS?

For a lone time I'm seeking for a solution to manage my OS config, The Arch branch is a way that I manage my home config, but that's not enough, NixOS provided capability to manage system wide config, or even more, with Flake I can manage configuration of multiple system.

Repo's structure base on nix-starter-config#standard

Stuff here

• Editor: a well configured nvim (tested startup time are less than 30ms) that follows the KISS principle, you can try it with my single nvim configuration repo wenvim
• Compositor: Hyprland
• Shell: ags
• Terminal emulator: foot
• Wallpaper: hyprpaper and some small script, random choose a pic to switch to it, and fetchBing for download daliy bingwallpaper and switch to immediately.

The ags config base on Aylur/dotfiles, with these different:

• Add hibernate button for powermenu, need to setup swap to make it work.
• Use hyprlock instead of lockscreen.js (more security, see this issue)
• Add a clipboard menu depends on cliphist, to trigger it, type :cp when launcher active
• Ocr for screenshot powered by tesseract
• Some bug fix for chinese font and more
• Remove favorite list on launcher, instead with whole applications list.
• Add scroll bar for all launcher.
• Some fix for 4k screen display.

Known issues

The clipboard menu item will be truncated if your cliphist item has new line character, this mean's that any item after this specific item will be disappear in clipboard menu, but don't worry, the data is not damaged, you can find that specific item via lookup the cliphist list output and find the specific item id then delete it via echo "<specific item id>" | cliphist delete, then restart ags.
This is a known issue that related to ags, it will truncated program output if it encountered a new line character, but I'm not sure whether it's ags problem or GTK api problem currently. I'll fix it by commit some PR to upstream if I got some free time.

Must have

Almost as same as Aylur/dotfiles (except asusctl) with these additional pkg:

• cliphist
• tesseract
• jq

Installation

Note

The part of nixos configuration has many custom settings that may not suitable for you machine, use it directly maybe damage your system. Please always check the code before you use it.

For NixOS users:

Replace hardware-configuration.nix with your own, and change the username variable, you may also need remove this line from nixos hardware or replace it with your hardware model. Then execute in local repo path:

$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#nixos
$ home-manager switch --flake .#wenjin@nixos

Also you may need to unset some substituters if download speed to slow.

For other distributions, things under xdg could directly put on xdg base dir (e.g. you should put the file under xdg/config to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME).