Nixos-Gui
Gui for Nixos package manager (by Celestialme)
nix-editor
A simple rust program to edit NixOS configuration files with just a command (by snowfallorg)
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Nixos-Gui
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- System settings that aren’t in System Settings
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Enable --extra-experimental-features flakes. I have got this error error: experimental Nix feature 'flakes' is disabled; use '--extra-experimental-features flakes' to override and everything trying to enable it fails.
https://github.com/Celestialme/Nixos-Gui try mine does not use flakes
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Software - Centre? Is there a Software-Center in NixOs and how to install it?
If GUI program is what you are after there is few of them which are WIP. The only one that worked for me is Nixos-Gui, which also duplicates as sort of NixOS administration tool since it provides means to edit options, services etc. It's still rough around edges but it's getting there. For Flatpaks only you can use gnome software center, I believe
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Is there a CLI/TUI option search like the one on search.nixos.org?
not perfect, i started working on it but then realized there is no good way to get appstream data for packages. especially i wanted icons. development stopped there. https://github.com/Celestialme/Nixos-Gui
- NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
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Is there a way to download only application desktop icon from cache.nixos.org?
So I am building this Nixos Gui application to install packages and edit configuration, So for the final touch I want to add icons to package listing, but I cant find source to get this icons from. Binary cache gives me full nar archives. Does anyone know way to get those icons from?
- auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
- NIX GUI application to manage nixos build with graphical ui.
nix-editor
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SnowflakeOS - Creating a GUI focused NixOS-based distro
I don't plan on it at this moment, however, if someone finishes the packagekit backend for Nix, the appstream data I'm working on collecting would work to display icons and screenshots. Also if someone who knew qt/kirigami development wanted to make something similar to nix-software-center, the backend tool that reads and modifies configuration values is a separate project: nix-editor, and I would be willing to help with any issues that arose from that.
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Nix Software Center: gtk4/libadwaita app store for NixOS
You can mix and match as much as you want! Both tools use nix-editor to read and modify your configuration.nix file. So any changes made manually would be visible within the tools. Some more complex configuration structures might confuse the tools, but the goal is for it to just work
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NixOS Configuration Editor: A gtk4/libadwaita app to edit and manage basic configurations without (much) coding
Tried it out, lots of cool features! The only nitpick I noticed was that it gets a bit confused with nested attributes, for example programs.gnupg.agent.enable = true; programs.gnupg.agent.enableSSHSupport = true; vs programs.gnupg.agent = { enable = true; enableSSHSupport = true; }; it doesn't seem able to handle the latter case yet. But if you ever wanted to, I made a crate that handles the backend of editing .nix file, nix-editor, crate here: https://crates.io/crates/nix-editor. It also uses rnix and handles all the attribute mess and editing files.
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auto update notifier & gui for non-tech users?
I definitely plan to support as much as I can, but there is definitely a level of complexity that can never be truly translated to a graphical tool. What I've found helpful during development for me is that I split the frontend GUI and the backed parser and editor into two projects (nixos-conf-editor and nix-editor), that way I could tackle a lot of the parsing and editing alone without worrying about specific GUI features needed (and use it for other projects). Later when I need some feature I add it to nix-editor. So far nix-editor supports simple attribute modification, array adding and popping, and recursive attribute definition and dereferencing. It's definitely not perfect by any means, but so far it's been enough for the projects I've been working on. I definitely need to credit any success I've had so far to the developers of rnix-parser which translates nix expression to easy to manage ASTs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Nixos-Gui and nix-editor you can also consider the following projects:
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
nixos-conf-editor - A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations
rnix-parser - A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!
os-installer-snowflake-config
system-updater - Systemd services for checking for and applying system updates.
gtk-rs-core - Rust bindings for GNOME libraries
nix-emacs - A set of useful Emacs modes and functions for users of Nix and Nix OS.
nixos-appstream-generator - Proof of concept appstream data generator for NixOS
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
Nixos-Gui vs nix-gui
nix-editor vs nixos-conf-editor
Nixos-Gui vs rnix-parser
nix-editor vs Relm4
Nixos-Gui vs nixos-conf-editor
nix-editor vs os-installer-snowflake-config
Nixos-Gui vs system-updater
nix-editor vs gtk-rs-core
Nixos-Gui vs nix-emacs
nix-editor vs nixos-appstream-generator
Nixos-Gui vs nixpkgs
nix-editor vs rnix-parser