mimvoid's nixos & home manager dotfiles

This is where I keep my configuration files, links to helpful resources, and some pieces of advice from my experience with NixOS.

Hyprland

XFCE

My Firefox CSS: panefox

My wallpapers and credits: wallpaper-stash

My Neovim config: neovim-dots

What I Use

Desktop Environments & Window Managers

• Hyprland
• XFCE with xfwm & cortile

Login Manager: greetd with tuigreet

Applications
Terminal	kitty
Editor	Neovim (with nixPatch)
GUI file manager	Thunar
TUI file manager	yazi
Web browser	Firefox
Art program	Krita
Document viewer	Zathura
To-do list	dooit
Music player	Tauon

Hyprland-specific
Lockscreen	hyprlock
Bar	AGS
Notifications	AGS (mako-like style)
Logout menu	AGS
Launcher	fuzzel
Wallpaper	swww
Screen temperature	wlsunset
Screenshot	hyprshot
Color picker	hyprpicker

Theming
GTK theme	Rose Pine Moon
Cursor	Rose Pine Dawn cursor
Icons	Papirus with Catppuccin folders
Sans serif font	Karla
Monospace font	Hasklug Nerd Font (Hasklig)
Display font	RitzFLF

• AGS icons: Adwaita
• Krita
  • Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato Maroon
  • Brushes & Resources
    • Dirty Chalk for Children
    • Hollow brush
    • SK Sketching
    • Rakurri Gradient Map Set
  • Plugins
    • Composition Helper
    • Reference Tabs Docker
    • Timer Watch
• Obsidian.md CSS snippets

Extra Cool Stuff

These are things I used that ended up not entirely fitting my use-case, but they're wonderful nonetheless and I totally respect and recommend them!

• foot, lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland

Resources

Nix & NixOS Sources

Official:

• NixOS website
• Nix package manager & NixOS download
  • The nix-env package manager works like most other package managers.
  • However, I'd advise against it if you really want to get into Nix's declarative nature
    • Unless all you want is just a good package manager
• Nix ecosystem documentation
  • Nix language guide
• NixOS wiki
• Search
  • Search Nix packages
  • Search NixOS options

Unofficial:

• Awesome Nix
• Flakes
  • NixOS & Flakes Book
  • Very helpful guide to Nix flakes
  • Nix flakes may seem daunting at first, but they make it super easy to add extra sources and configuration options. Plus, they're declarative while nix channels are not.
• Nix User Repository (NUR)
• User-maintained NixOS wiki
  • Nix applications and ecosystem
• Remember to optimize your NixOS storage

Home Manager

A declarative approach to configuring your user environment! It's like NixOS's configuration file, but only for the home directory. It's great if you want to tinker without adding a bunch of generations to your boot menu, or use different configurations for users on the same system.

It can work on other distros too—I tried it on openSUSE Tumbleweed, though not long-term.

• Home Manager
• Home Manager manual
• Home Manager configuration options manual
• Search Home Manager options

Extras

I mainly use NixOS and Home Manager, but here are some other interesting tools.

• nh, a pretty wrapper for rebuilding
• NixVim, for configuring Neovim and its plugins declaratively
  • Documentation
• Stylix, for quick universal colorschemes and fonts
  • Documentation
• nix-flatpak, for managing Flatpaks declaratively

Pieces of Advice

• Use nix path-info nixpkgs#<package-name>!
  • Trust me, it is not fun to manually search through nix/store/ to find a specific package file
  • The sooner you're know this, the better!
• If you want a starter config, start small!
  • You can understand a lot by doing things yourself
  • And configs that are too complex may confuse you out of changing them
  • If you really want a config without the manual effort, NixOS is probably not for you
• NixOS documentation is truly sparse
  • To dig deep, don't be afraid to look through the source code and manuals
  • You can do a ton on NixOS, but it takes time, effort, and undoubtly frustration
• You don't need to rely on the options NixOS and Home Manager give you to create config files
  • NixOS has environment.etc."path/file.type", meaning etc/path/file.type
  • Home Manager has many:
    • home.file."path/file.type" means home/user/path/file.type
    • xdg.configFile."path/file.type" means ~/.config/path/file.type
      • (Unless you changed your XDG config directory)
  • You can use "path/file.type".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink /absolute/path/to/file to symlink an existing file to the location you want
  • Or create your own modules
• NixOS works very differently to other Linux distros, but that's why I enjoy it!