My nihh configs.

There are some things I couldn't figure out to use with Nix so I'm leaving the imperative way of these things.

Flameshot has been changed to Gradia

Spicetify works now

Preface

This repository contains all of my learning process since installing NixOS. It is pretty simple in my mind, but sometimes I find myself lost in these .nix files not being able to figure out where is the thing I need. Moreover, some blocks of code are blidnly copy-pasted, so after sometime I can't tell what it does clearly, so I decided to document it for myself, maybe it serves as an example for anyone who is reading this. One more time, keep in mind that it was written to explain it to myself. Thanks

Structure

flake.nix

My nix flake currenrlty contains 4 outputs. They are:

• nixosConfiguration for my PC namely rook with user sae
• another nixosConfiguration for my ThinkPad namely just pad with used t34
• nixpkgs-fmt formatter for x86_64-linux
• devshell for x86_64-linux with nix language server, linter and etc.

The folder structure is also quite simple. nixosConfigurations point to hosts/ folder for each device with device/default.nix. There is also a folder called shared with shared NixOS related configuration, which is equally helpful and necessary in all of my linux machines(I don't have darwin yet).

hosts

Device folders follow this structure:

• configuration.nix created by NixOS installer but without the shared content. However, all the device specific things are stored here, such as finger print and touchpad on ThinkPad, and bluetooth configurations in rook(PC)
• pure hardware-configuration.nix without any modifications, because I'm not advanced yet to do anything with it yet.
• default.nix which just exports a result of nixosSystem function from nixpkgs standart library.

Under certain circumstances, ThinkPad only at the time of writing:

• power.nix contains power management related configuration such as tlp, powertop and power-profile-daemons (currently disabled.)

shared/ folder contains following files:

• default.nix combines all the *.nix files inside shared folder and contains shared configuration that is too short to be written in a separate file.
• bootloader.nix for boot loader options, I use GRUB, I wanted to customize it initially, but couldn't find a moment to do it yet.
• network.nix, as the name is self explanatory, it has very few lines, but I planned to extend it furthermore while learning, that's why I moved out network configuration beforehand.
• spicetify.nix contains configurations of my spotify modified with spicetify to have better keyboard experience.
• in keyboard.nix, I have placed kanata configuration to activate home row mods and replace Caps Lock with Escape because of its original long distance from home row.
• kanata.kbd is the actual keyboard configurations used by kanata

home-manager

Second folder by importance is home-manager which is as the name suggests, the folder of my home-manager configurations. Surprisingly, my HM folder is so simple and small. It only has 3 files:

• shared.nix, the name may suggest that shared configs should be a lot, but it only contains single imports array. It imports everything from modules all of which is shared configuration explained below.

The other two files are pc-home.nix and pad-home.nix which contains single ./shared.nix import, and single username and user path declaration. I tend to have a single user per device, so I can keep my HM config as simple as possible.

modules

My modules folder have application configurations, and the file names are self explanatory except additions.nix:

✦ ❯ ee modules/
 modules
├──  additions.nix
├──  alacritty.nix
├──  astronvim.nix
├──  chromium.nix
├──  firefox.nix
├──  fish.nix
├──  ghostty.nix
├──  git.nix
├──  kitty.nix
├──  lazygit.nix
├──  litexl.nix
├──  spotify.nix
├──  starship.nix
├──  vscode.nix
├──  wezterm.nix
├──  zellij.nix
└──  zsh.nix

• additions.nix contains configuration of apps that I don't bother to modify a lot and are too simple to configure anyways, such as direnv, btop and zoxide.

packages

My packages folder have only 2 files, home.nix and system.nix with each of them storing list of packages I need.

• home.nix has home.packages
• system.nix has environment.systemPackages

astronvim

As the name suggests, it keeps my neovim configurations that I have very little idea how it works. It was configured solely by Shakhzod Kudratov, my participance included listening and learning it which I might have failed too.

Remaining folders don't have much impact, but I chose to document them because it is fun.

extra

• a_maidens_wish.png is my wallpaper on all of my devices, which I found from my colleagues Telegram channel.
• inside fonts.nix, I tried to confiure my fonts declaratively, because San Francisco Mono was not available on nixpkgs, after some time I decided to give up and use the beautiful Iosevka instead.
• watershot.nix has Shakhzod's attempt on making flameshot alternative, watershot work, but eventually failed, so I used another alternative called Gradia anways.

fonts

In this folder, I just keep San Francisco's .otc files just in case I want to try to make it work in the future.

With that being said, this is the total overview of my nihh repository. This document will be updated further, but slowly.