nix-config
vivarium
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- | GNU 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.
vivarium
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
Take a look to Vivarium It is more recent it worked decently and it is remakably easy to config.
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I am looking for a wayland based tiling window manager which is close to dwm/xmonad, which one would you recommend?
I wrote Vivarium specifically to behave like my old xmonad setup, although it isn't at all like xmonad internally. It's configurable in C.
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland:
I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally.
River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like.
Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though.
[0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium
[1] https://github.com/ifreund/river
[2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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Recommended Compositors
Vivarium has xwayland as an option, enabled by default.
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xorg sucks, use swc
https://github.com/inclement/vivarium.git and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl.git are also great projects in the same vein.
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
nvd
velox - velox window manager
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
.nixpkgs
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.