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hana
Discontinued 花 - Hana | Nixos dotfiles [moved to codeberg: https://codeberg.org/mobsenpai/hana] (by mobsenpai)
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I have officially retired from Emacs
I do it declaratively, however I specifically use an unstraightened version. [[https://github.com/marienz/nix-doom-emacs-unstraightened][marienz/nix-doom-emacs-unstraightened: Builds Doom Emacs using Nix]]
I use a doom emacs overlay that uses pgtk so it works flawlessly on wayland, since I only learned recently that it uses X by default. You can inspect my dotfiles here: [[https://github.com/ArikRahman/dotfiles][ArikRahman/dotfiles: Arik's Dotfiles]]
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Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
I encountered similar setbacks with hyprland (https://github.com/ArikRahman/hydenix), and I eventually wound up preferring scrollable tiling managers. I restarted from scratch with niri, and have found it to be a stable platform to develop against. Here's my current dotfiles (https://github.com/ArikRahman/dotfiles)
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