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Serge from Babka<p>A Nix challenge.</p><p>I use home-manager, which I like a lot. I can keep my config files, my software, etc. in sync</p><p>The problem is that I'd like to do things with home-manager that it seems incapable of doing, like making a symlink from dirA to dirB without dirB then being inside my Nix store.</p><p>For example, I use Nextcloud and Syncthing to syncronize files across my system. For example, I'd like my ~/Nextcloud/para/1_Projects directory to be symlinked into my home directory, so ~/1_Projects is goes to the Nextcloud folder.</p><p>Yet home-manager seems incapable of doing that. It tries to "own" the Nextcloud directory and then symlink from *its* version of the directory.</p><p>So now I need two tools?</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nix</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/homemanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homemanager</span></a></p>
std::living std::fish<p>One of the best <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>git</span></a> related things I've ever seen!</p><p>Multiple git identity manager using <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nixos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/homemanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homemanager</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ml/tags/fzf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fzf</span></a> to select your current identity when commiting</p><p>Worked like a charm on the first try </p><p><a href="https://pickard.cc/posts/git-identity-home-manager/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pickard.cc/posts/git-identity-</span><span class="invisible">home-manager/</span></a></p><p>CC <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@chrispickard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chrispickard</span></a></span></p>
:flag_enby_wartime: 𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤 :antifa:<p>Is it just me, or is <a href="https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/tags/lix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lix</span></a> (or is it <a href="https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/tags/homemanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homemanager</span></a>?) straight up <em>ignoring</em> the <code>flake.lock</code> of an input chosen with <code>--override-input</code>???</p><p>I can't reproduce it, but it happens just so frequently. what is going on here. why is my computer haunted</p>
Sam Lehman :nixos:<p>It would be really nice to have my personal configs for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Helix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helix</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neovim</span></a>, or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Codium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Codium</span></a> in my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homemanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homemanager</span></a> config, but also let a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/devshell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devshell</span></a> provide extra config specific to that repo.</p><p>Any ideas on how something like this could be achieved?</p>

Bizarre OpenSSH/PAM/Nix-Home-Manager issues today. Looks like the daemon or PAM is refusing to acknowledge the symlink in `~/.nix-profile/bin/zsh` and so blocking SSH login.

It's also throwing bad password errors but I tried pasting the string in both `sudo passwd $USER` and the SSH password prompt.

`StrictModes=no` didn't have any positive affect.

User is working just fine otherwise, `/etc/shells` contains the location which matches `getent passwd`, symlink in `~/.nix-profile/bin/zsh` to the store is valid...

#OpenSSH#Linux#Nix

Hey, standalone #Nix crowd!

I'm searching for a #HomeManager config which enables LSP and installs minimal plugins for #NeoVIM.

I thought I got it, but sadly my config seems to be broken and after a couple of evenings of debugging, I gave up.

Here is my futile attempt: github.com/cognivore/hmm/blob/

I have searched #Github for a working config, but I failed to find one that just works for me.

SEND HELP

GitHubhmm/neovim.nix at main · cognivore/hmmHome-Manager files (standalone) plus ad-hoc installation of i3 - cognivore/hmm

I have the most random standalone #Nix / #HomeManager glitch just now.

For some reason, after I switched to home-manager-managed #bash, after a reboot, I lost my profile being sourced. So I had to add

```
if [ -e /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh ]; then . /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh; fi
```

to `bashrcExtra`.

Full disclosure: the variable wasn't empty before last switch, but still it shouldn't affect anything? Idk, weird.

Configure Newsboat with Nix Home Manager
I assume you have nix installed as a package manager at least if not the whole NixOS thing and a working home manager setup.

Most of the setup below was obvious, but the password stored externally to your configuration wasn't quite defined in the section on setting up external sync services. Using feedbin-passwordfile you can set the location of the
sfndesign.ca/configure-newsboa
#Code #HomeManager #newsboat #nix

SFNdesign · Configure Newsboat with Nix Home Manager - SFNdesignI assume you have nix installed as a package manager at least if not the whole NixOS thing and a working home manager setup. Most of the setup below was obvious, but the password stored externally to your configuration wasn’t quite defined in the section on setting up external sync services. Using feedbin-passwordfile you can …

Has anybody successfully used the Home Manager Firefox Module to configure the bookmarks toolbar? It doesn’t work for me, and I don’t get an answer about this in Matrix… looking for somebody to confirm this is working. Here‘s my config: github.com/britter/nix-configu
#linux #NixOS #HomeManager #Firefox #FollowerPower

GitHubFirefox: manage setup via home manager by britter · Pull Request #1 · britter/nix-configurationBy britter
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Actually, #HEVC doesn’t work either, using #x264 instead. I don’t really understand why they don’t work since from what I’ve read they should have wide support. 🤔

Been learning more #NixOS including #HomeManager so I can set it up as automated as possible. I’m considering learning setting NixOS up to pull the transcode script straight from a #Git repo, that would be cool!

That script now works on the #RaspberryPi 4. My current challenge is setting up #Nix to run it when the machine turns on with #SystemD.

I can’t really get SystemD to do anything at all, which is frustrating. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. 😑 Once that works though I think the system is operational!

#NixOS update after sleeping for one month on host floyd (lenovo x260) takes 1 hour and 15 minutes (despite new 2TB SSD). During that, the device is almost non-responsive for anything else.

Host jackson (with even a slightly larger setup) probably would need 5-10 minutes maximum (lenovo t490). (I do weekly updates there.)

Didn't had that update "performance" while using Xubuntu LTS before. 🤔

github.com/novoid/nixos-config

GitHubGitHub - novoid/nixos-config: NixOS + flakes + home-manager with xfce, zsh, tmux, ...NixOS + flakes + home-manager with xfce, zsh, tmux, ... - novoid/nixos-config

Does anyone know what might keep (re-)creating ~/.config/xdg-terminals.list and ~/.config/none+i3-xdg-terminals.list on my NixOS machine? They keep getting created whenever I log into my account, and I'm trying to get 100% of that directory to be managed by Home-Manager.

A Google search tells me that it's part of xdg-terminal-exec, but I don't have that enabled. Why would this be created automatically, and by what?

:boost_ok:

I'm using #xfce since way over a decade because:
- it offers the right level of abstraction & functionality I expect
- it's more or less stable so I don't have to get used to different things every couple of months/years

With my latest #NixOS adventure & the Wayland situation, I'm thinking of switching over to #KDE because it has Wayland support and github.com/pjones/plasma-manag might actually offer the possibility to fully(?) configure KDE from #HomeManager.

Did somebody made that switch as well?

GitHubGitHub - pjones/plasma-manager: Manage KDE Plasma with Home ManagerManage KDE Plasma with Home Manager. Contribute to pjones/plasma-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.