nix-config
waymonad
nix-config | waymonad | |
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4 | 2 | |
5 | 87 | |
- | - | |
4.5 | 0.0 | |
over 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
Nix | Haskell | |
- | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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nix-config
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20 Years of Nix
> I tried to install NixOS using the live cd last week in a Hyper-V VM, but it failed to get anywhere due to SquashFS errors.
Heh, that reminds me of installing NixOS back around 2014. I didn't have any way to physically boot off the install CD; so I ran it in qemu, using my real /dev/sda as the "virtual" hard drive (which I'd already partitioned). Thankfully there was no interference with the host system (Trisquel).
I'm still using (and evolved version of) the same NixOS config to this day; it still contains the following comment ( https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/nixos/machin... ):
trace "FIXME: Which modules are artefacts of using QEMU to install?"
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The Curse of NixOS
Where nixpkgs2105 is a pinned revision of the Nixpkgs repo, defined in another overlay. My current Nix config has pinned Nixpkgs versions going back to 2016. For example, here's a bunch of such overrides:
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config/blob/master/overrides/fi...
At the moment I'm using niv to manage the pinned Nixpkgs versions (the 'repoXXXX' entries):
https://github.com/Warbo/nix-helpers/blob/master/nix/sources...
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
`nix-env` is an imperative command, whilst writing a .nix file is declarative. In particular, the latter can be managed using git.
For example, here's a system-wide config dating back to Feb 2015: https://github.com/Warbo/nix-config
(That's actually a NixOS config; my macOS config is in a private repo, but it imports that repo to define its "one big system package")
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
> I'd like to see other configs from nix users too if you're still here!
Here's mine https://github.com/warbo/nix-config
I've used Nix/NixOS for about 8 years, but not delved into flakes yet.
waymonad
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
waymonad has a somewhat more active fork here: https://github.com/L-as/waymonad, but it's still just a one-man show that got picked up at ZuriHac 2021 and then failed to gather sufficient momentum.
As a maintainer of xmonad upstream, I'm watching the waymonad project to see where it goes, but I have some concerns about its architecture which I'd love to see addressed before we'd officially endorse people to try switching. This is a copy of a message I sent to fellow xmonad developers a couple months ago:
> We should certainly take a look sooner or later. From a quick glance, I have some concerns about the general design of it:
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Waymonad not dead after all?
The fork https://github.com/L-as/waymonad appears to be getting quite a few commits fairly recently. (I'm not affiliated with and know nothing about the author(s); I was just looking at the Github forks to see if waymonad was truly dead as https://www.reddit.com/r/xmonad/comments/i5ivfa/is_waymonad_dead/ claims.)
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks
vivarium - A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor using wlroots
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
nvd
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
i3-alternating-layout - Scripts to open new windows in i3wm using alternating layouts (splith/splitv) for each new window
.nixpkgs
nixos - NixOS Configuration
nix-helpers - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-helpers.git
dotfiles - A collection of my dotfiles and other configurations