nix-index
Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius] (by nix-community)
persway
Petite Puppeteer of Pandemonium - your very own Sway IPC Imp (by johnae)
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| nix-index | persway | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 5 | |
| 715 | 111 | |
| 7.1% | - | |
| 5.6 | 6.3 | |
| 12 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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-index
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-index.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.
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Where to find SAR in the package manager?
nix-index can be used to provide this functionality, and to automate this process you can use nix-index-database (setup instructions are in the README).
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Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
Are you using flakes? AFAIK `command-not-found` does not work with them. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171054 and https://discourse.nixos.org/t/why-isnt-there-an-official-bui...
I think `nix-index` works as a replacement: https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index
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spd-say on NixOS
If you are on another distro or mac os there is also nix-index
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Nix Package Search
nix-index is another option for searching for pkgs. You can search by name, or by specific files within a pkg.
- Alternative to the "dnf provides"
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Building a program in NixOS
You can use nix-locate from https://github.com/bennofs/nix-index to find files on NixOS:
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What is the package to install the gsettings binary?
nix-index makes it trivial to find which package contains a given file.
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How to properly setup git clang-format in a shell.nix
There are two ways I know of: - If you use old-school channels, there's an index in the channel. In particular, the command-not-found hook is able to use that. In this particular case, you would have to guess that git will look for the git-clang-tools, and command-not-found that. This looks like it only works for programs, not arbitrary files. - In any case, you can use the more general nix-index. That's what I did because I use flakes.
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An automatically-updated nix-index
I use nix-index a lot to find which derivation a file belongs to, but building the index takes a while and so I end up not updating it very frequently.
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Rant: I want nix, but I'm almost done
Look at the library missing say X Use nix-locate to find the derivation that includes libX.dylib file (if it can’t find the macOS dylib version of the file try using the same name for linux by changing dylib for so) Add the derivation to you environmental and try again It will find the next missing library on the next compile.
persway
Posts with mentions or reviews of persway.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-03.
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Questions about availability of specific functionalities in swaywm (and wayland at all)
There’s this: https://github.com/johnae/persway
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Master and Stack setup
Looks like Persway supports this with its stack_main layout? https://github.com/johnae/persway (I haven’t used it, just happened to see it and remembered this post)
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Do you always confuse split modes too?
https://github.com/johnae/persway (in Rust 🦀)
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Help creating a layout manager
The code so far: https://github.com/gumieri/wayout/blob/main/src/main.rs. I am using Rust and the swayipc_async Crate (I'm "inspiring" in the persway because I have low experience with Rust).
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Swayidle to hibernate
Side note: you might want to add https://github.com/johnae/persway (similar to autotiling with some extra features).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nix-index and persway you can also consider the following projects:
nix-index-database - Weekly updated nix-index database [maintainer=@Mic92]
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation
colmena - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool
swayws - a sway workspace manager which allows easy moving of workspaces to and from outputs
nickel - Better configuration for less
layman - a layout management framework for sway/i3
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
swaysnex - Smart split and execute command in Sway
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
dotfiles
nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor