This allows me to easily see which version updates happen between two
store paths (e.g. after updating)

Fetch store paths via `home-manager generations` and run `nvd diff
<old> <new>`

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nixpkgs / nix home-manager

I currently use Ubuntu and installed nix alongside. This repository contains my personal ~/.config/nixpkgs folder, for sharing, inspiration and retrieving feedback.

This includes home.nix to maintain home-manager, see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html

Disclaimer

This is my personal setup for my local laptop running Ubuntu. I share this for free so everyone can have a look and inspiration or provide feedback to me.

This is not intended to be used by anyone else just by copy and pasting or cloning.

Installation

Install (clone) into ~/.config/nixpkgs.

Install home-manager see: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.html Execute home-manager switch

Usage

Add packages to home.nix and run home-manager switch.

Folder structure

The folder overlays contains overlays for nix itself. E.g. alter packages like patching.

The folder home is related to extras for home-manager. It has the following sub folder:

home/files Holds configuration files. home-manager doesn't provide modules for all programs. Those files can be added via xdg.configFile.

home/modules Holds nix modules. Not all programs provide modules out of the box. I add my own here, which I might create PRs for in future.

home/programs Holds home-manager programs. entries. Each file corresponds to a single program. Each file is loaded within home.nix.

home/services Holds home-manager services. entries. Each file corresponds to a single service. Each file is loaded within home.nix.

shells/ Holds shells for customer projects. The customers are not aware of Nix and I don't want to stress them. I use this folder to have them in version control and symlink them into the project.

Update

Update can be done via custom-update-system package which is available within the overlay.

Manual changes

List of manual needed changes for various reasons.

Allow gdm3 to use xsessions as login. Add the following content as /usr/share/xsessions/xsession.desktop:
```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=XSession
Comment=This session uses the custom xsession file
Exec=/etc/X11/Xsession
Type=Application
X-DesktopNames=GNOME-Flashback;GNOME;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-flashback
```
This is used by gdm3 (installed via ubuntu host) to allow logging in via xsession which will pick up all the settings generated by home-manager.

Do not forget to call sudo desktop-file-install xsession.desktop to make system aware of the file.

Todos

Additions:

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly as replacement for shell history search?
https://github.com/darrenburns/dunk diff alternative
Add languagetool integration (via ale?) into Neovim (for rst, markdown, git commit?)
Integrate https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic for diffing source code https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/2850

Migration:

Migrate ssh config (I don't really like to expose customer server names and configs to outer world, how to handle?)
Migrate PGP?
- Right now I've installed gnupg2, gnupg, gpg on ubuntu
Migrate home manager to use flake for better rollback support if update breaks something.
Maybe PR upstream: ./home/modules/programs/languagetool.nix.
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Ideas

Maybe I can have a private channel which provides more sensitive info like customer related things and is referenced from here? I then can make that repo private but keep this one here public?

Resources

Some resources I found useful (in no particular order):

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