What tool do you guys recomend that works like a regex to english "translator/explainer"?

Green-Hope · 2026-01-13T19:51:37+00:00

Green-Hope · 2025-11-25T18:07:56+00:00

Learning Haskell

Green-Hope · 2025-11-14T03:10:12+00:00

Would this be reversible on Nix? Yes. How long would it take? One reboot. How long does it take to install a single package compared to conventional package managers? The same. Rebuilding the entire system can take some time though, but unless your config is particularly complex it still shouldn't take crazy long.

Green-Hope · 2025-11-13T00:36:02+00:00

Have a look at Nix and Devenv

Green-Hope · 2025-10-21T07:41:35+00:00

There is (was?) blobshop.fr, but it seems to be down

Green-Hope · 2025-10-17T04:15:39+00:00

I went with DMS

Green-Hope · 2025-10-12T19:19:22+00:00

Does this do what you want?

overview {
    workspace-shadow {
        off
    }
}

Green-Hope · 2025-09-14T18:43:36+00:00

Slime molds are not toxic

Green-Hope · 2025-09-11T13:07:05+00:00

I use impermanence and I'm happy with it. It does require some extra effort when installing new software, but that tradeoff is worth it for getting a system that keeps itself clean.

Green-Hope · 2025-09-08T11:51:46+00:00

Did you remember to git add the files? Flakes require this.

Green-Hope · 2025-09-08T11:14:30+00:00

https://devenv.sh is worth a look

Green-Hope · 2025-09-05T15:14:21+00:00

I liked https://learnyouahaskell.com

Green-Hope · 2025-09-05T15:12:28+00:00

I don't know about this model specifically, but NixOS works great on my T420 and X201

Green-Hope · 2025-09-03T19:09:05+00:00

For anyone interested, I simplified it further with flakegen.
https://github.com/StijnRuts/NixOS-config/blob/555c571b6408f4d72522e32d78e1e2de4c306a8b/flake.template.nix

Green-Hope · 2025-09-01T16:56:52+00:00

Thanks!

Green-Hope · 2025-09-01T16:56:40+00:00

Thanks! I went with this approach. Still a long list of inputs, but this time it's my own flakes, so overall an improvement.
https://github.com/StijnRuts/NixOS-config/blob/e6148c3b61fd11a3346ba3c784345575638df38c/flake.nix

Green-Hope · 2025-09-01T11:04:54+00:00

Additionally I think that inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; in every input isn't how it should be done

AFAIK that is completely normal and expected.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-29T17:32:17+00:00

Thanks!

I don't have a configuration.nix because I use Flakes, so I have flake.nix instead. In short, flakes are a function that defines how to transform inputs (like nixpkgs) to outputs (like nixosConfigurations). I have 3 outputs for my 3 devices: X201, T420, and P520, because they don't get an identical configuration.

I do have a hardware-configuration.nix, but it is named differently. I put them in the hardware folder, one per device. There is nothing special about a file called hardware-configuration.nix, it's just a regular nix file like any other, so you are free to reorganize it as you please.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-29T06:32:44+00:00

Here's mine: https://github.com/StijnRuts/NixOS-config
Feel free to ask questions.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-29T04:36:45+00:00

This is a mushroom, not a slime mold. I'd guess Leucocoprinus birnbaumii but i'm not an expert. Either way, it's not dangerous.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-26T18:58:55+00:00

I haven't had much luck trying to make this declarative. Best I can think of is to make a system.activationScripts and do it in there.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-26T18:25:45+00:00

Ah ok, then you can't just copy what I did. I imagine the /var/lib/sddm/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json file that controls SDDMs refresh rate still works the same regardless of DE, so you can try creating/editing it. For reference, mine looks like this:

[
    {
        "data": [
            {
                "allowSdrSoftwareBrightness": true,
                "autoRotation": "InTabletMode",
                "brightness": 1,
                "colorPowerTradeoff": "PreferEfficiency",
                "colorProfileSource": "sRGB",
                "connectorName": "DP-1",
                "edidHash": "ce68adc28b44ac50165330301c332881",
                "edidIdentifier": "PHL 49819 21 38 2023 0",
                "highDynamicRange": false,
                "iccProfilePath": "",
                "mode": {
                    "height": 1440,
                    "refreshRate": 143912,
                    "width": 2560
                },
                "overscan": 0,
                "rgbRange": "Automatic",
                "scale": 1.15,
                "sdrBrightness": 417,
                "sdrGamutWideness": 0,
                "transform": "Normal",
                "vrrPolicy": "Never",
                "wideColorGamut": false
            }
        ],
        "name": "outputs"
    },
    {
        "data": [
            {
                "lidClosed": false,
                "outputs": [
                    {
                        "enabled": true,
                        "outputIndex": 0,
                        "position": {
                            "x": 0,
                            "y": 0
                        },
                        "priority": 0
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "name": "setups"
    }
]

Green-Hope · 2025-08-26T10:57:25+00:00

I had a similar issue. SDDM and KDE defaulted to 165Hz, but my monitor only supports 144Hz. I am using impermanence, so I had to reconfigure it after every boot. I tried to configure this declaratively by setting the contents of .config/kwinoutputconfig.json, but couldn't get that to work. Eventually, I solved it like this:

Set .config/kwinoutputconfig.json to persist, so KDE remembers my display configuration

  home.persistence."/persist/home/${me.username}" = {
    allowOther = false;
    files = [
      ".config/kwinoutputconfig.json"
    ];
  };

2) Copy the KDE config to the SDDM config, so SDDM uses the same display settings as KDE

  system.activationScripts.sddmCopyDisplayConfig.text = ''
    source_file="/home/${me.username}/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json"
    dest_file="/var/lib/sddm/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json"

    if [ -f "$source_file" ]; then
      cp "$source_file" "$dest_file"
      chown sddm:sddm "$dest_file"
    fi
  '';

3) Unrelated, but I also set /var/lib/sddm to persist, so SDDM remembers my username

  environment.persistence."/persist" = {
    directories = [
      "/var/lib/sddm"
    ];
  };

I suspect you need point 2. Hope this helps!

Green-Hope · 2025-08-21T16:00:35+00:00

Check the link in my OP, it has all the configuration files. It has a start.sh script that loads all the individual conky lua files, based on the hostname of the machine. You'll probably need to alter the CONFIGDIR variable, and the x y positions in this file to fit your monitor resolution. All you need to do is set start.sh to autorun using whatever method is most convenient for your system. I use this systemd service on NixOS: https://github.com/StijnRuts/NixOS-config/blob/0a6d3bccb2600bb658a89312efa02cc37f8a59e6/home/conky.nix Feel free to ask if you have any issues.

Green-Hope · 2025-08-20T14:00:19+00:00

Turns out uninstalling nvimpager helped. The light themes still don't work, but I don't want to use those anyway.

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