nix-emacs
A set of useful Emacs modes and functions for users of Nix and Nix OS. (by travisbhartwell)
Nixos-Gui
Gui for Nixos package manager (by Celestialme)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nix-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-emacs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-16.
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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.
Nixos-Gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of Nixos-Gui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-03.
- 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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-emacs and Nixos-Gui 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!