Nixos-Gui
Gui for Nixos package manager (by Celestialme)
nix-emacs
A set of useful Emacs modes and functions for users of Nix and Nix OS. (by travisbhartwell)
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Nixos-Gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of 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-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-emacs.
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Is there a CLI/TUI option search like the one on search.nixos.org?
For Emacs, there is helm-nixos-options/ivy-nixos-options from https://github.com/travisbhartwell/nix-emacs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Nixos-Gui and nix-emacs you can also consider the following projects:
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
nix-editor - A simple rust program to edit NixOS configuration files with just a command
rnix-parser - A Nix parser written in Rust [maintainer=@oberblastmeister]
nixos-conf-editor - A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations
system-updater - Systemd services for checking for and applying system updates.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!