Standalone Nix + Home-Manager dotfiles

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Table of Content

• System Components
• NixOS Installation Guide
• WSL2 Installation Guide
• Dotfiles Structure

Nix Installation Guide

Flakes can be built with:

• $ home-manager switch --flake <path>#<hostname>
• example $ home-manager switch --flake .#atlas

Installation

First of all, you will need to install nix on your OS

sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

after that you will need to install nixGL and home manager

nix-env -iA home-manager nixGL

then clone this repository

git clone <repo> ~/.config/Home-manager

and build the profile of your choice:

home-manager switch --flake ~/.config/home-manager/#<profile-name>

Screen locking

Due to issue for nix to use the system underlying PAM libs, it's not possible to manage screenlocking package with nix & home manager, we can only manage the configuration So you have to install your favorite screen locker package, ensure it has enough PAM privileges, and call it into the config. As this step is distro specific, I won't give direction.

Screen Sharing

With SwayWM, screensharing seems to work fine with Slack/discord/browser, but I didn't manage to make hyprland desktop backend to successfully screen share with Slack (discord & teams works fine though)

Dotfiles Structure

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├── commonPackages
├── desktop
│   ├── hyprland
│   └── sway
├── modules
│   └── home-manager
├── packages
├── profiles
│   └── XPS-15-9530
├── programs
│   ├── alacritty
│   ├── direnv
│   ├── fish
│   ├── fzf
│   ├── git
│   ├── jeezyvim
│   ├── kitty
│   ├── lazygit
│   ├── lsd
│   ├── nix-index
│   ├── rofi
│   ├── starship
│   ├── swaylock
│   ├── taskwarrior
│   ├── typst
│   ├── zathura
│   └── zoxide
└── services
    ├── podman
    └── trackwarrior

• commonPackages directory that holds the packages common to all profiles
• desktop holds all windows-manager related programs/services/configuration
• modules contain custom modules used across the dotfiles
• packages a set of custom built packages
• profiles the entrypoint of the config, directly called by the flake.nix file, holds all user/hosts profiles home configuration
• programs the configuration of all packages used across the profiles
• services some services used across the profiles