Home Manager using Nix
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| Home Manager using Nix | GNU Stow | |
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| 182 | 4 | |
| 5,863 | 540 | |
| 6.3% | - | |
| 9.8 | 9.2 | |
| 1 day ago | 16 days ago | |
| Nix | Perl | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Home Manager using Nix
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
It's probably overkill for what you are trying to do. But I have been using home-manager [0] as a way to quickly restore my working environment.
[0] https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/
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How do I actually update home-manager?
$ home-manager --version 23.05 $ nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.11.tar.gz home-manager $ nix-channel --update $ nix-shell '' -A install [...] All done! The home-manager tool should now be installed and you can edit /home/MY-USERNAME/.config/home-manager/home.nix to configure Home Manager. Run 'man home-configuration.nix' to see all available options. $ home-manager --version 23.05
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Possible to use KDE plugins on nixos?
Unfortunately until we find more volunteers in this area, it is hard to see status quo changing. See also https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/607 and this ongoing project https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager
- Exclude packages in home manager
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An Overview of Nix in Practice
> Channels are, AFAIU, a reference to some point-in-time/commit/version of nixpkgs
It's not specifically nixpkgs, but any Nix code generally.
Per the Nix manual[0]:
> Channels are a mechanism for referencing remote Nix expressions and conveniently retrieving their latest version.
e.g. home-manager's suggested channel is just the github tarball for the relevant branch[1]:
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager -
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It sounds like you'd benefit a lot from Nix/NixOS [1], if not just home-manager[2].
1. https://nixos.org/
2. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
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Noob question: Where home-manager config after installed on archlinux
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager nix-channel --update nix-shell '' -A install
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Need help on home manager neovim config
I'm using flakes and home manager and not really sure how to go about managing my neovim configuration. I've read through some other posts, github issues, and various articles trying to suss out a good way to do this. Reading through other people's configs and posts was somewhat helpful but there is a lot going on I don't understand and everyone's examples I've seen vary wildly.
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Recurring 'Home Manager not found' Error After Running nix-collect-garbage"
Said store path contains the home-manager repo. After the home-manager run, the store path is recreated.
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I want to like NixOS but... I can't and I need some help
I can't answer all your questions, but home-manager does have a dconf module that would probably be better to use than that external tool. Everything inside the options block are the things you can pass to the dconf module.
GNU Stow
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GNU Stow is a very useful Perl program but it has some minor issues that need to be fixed
I use GNU Stow to symlink many shell and configuration files from a repository. It works so well and there are many webpages out there from people telling you how it's the best way to manage dotfiles.
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Is it a good idea to backup my filesystem on github?
Gnu Stow
- Give Your Dotfiles a Home with GNU Stow
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Too bad that's broken for directory names: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33
What are some alternatives?
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
nixos-flake-example - This is a demo NixOS config, with optional flakes support. Along with notes on why flakes is useful and worth adopting.
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
NixOS-WSL - NixOS on WSL(2) [maintainer=@nzbr]
rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
emacs-overlay - Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis]
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin
homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.