Unfortunately, KMSCON was extremely buggy and caused a variety of
graphical glitches and random character sequences across a non-trivial
amount of virtual consoles. Because of this, Hyprland as the main
environment will be preferred with a way to emulate a tty-like
appearance.
Although it would be nice to use a Wayland image viewer, currently all
of them (that I am aware of) suffer from anti-aliasing issues not present
in feh.
Note that instead of searching for the background at runtime, it is
likely possible to reference the background at build time when the
hyprland config is migrated to Nix.
After using Nix and NixOS for a few days, I can't believe I did
something like this in the past. Having a single reproducible flake is
significantly more pragmatic than imperatively configuring everything.
A wallpaper is required for Stylix to work, so I added one with base00
as the background color and the NixOS logo as the foreground image.
Credit for the logo goes to the original author who licensed it under
CC-BY: https://releases.nixos.org/nix-dev/2016-October/021876.html
Alacritty does not support MapleMono-NF as a font, whereas kitty does.
kitty also has other nice features such as built-in windows/tabs and
image support.
Note that loading a runtime file in ~/.cache/wal is no longer necessary
since configuration is done declaratively through Nix.
Although this has some downsides, such as the lack of "live reloading"
in some applications, this "feature" wasn't present across all
applications anyway.
Stylix is like a maintained version of pywal but configuration changes
are managed by Nix and Home Manager, thus guaranteeing a certain level
of reproducibility with its declarative nature.
colorizer bugged out presumably due to order being determined by the Nix
language. I did not like cursorline however I did think cursorword was
cool, so I'm keeping that part of it for now.
Although I could technically make a gnome module and make it really easy
to switch between gnome and hyprland, I'm not really interested in
maintaining that right now.
For example, there was a recent bug in nautilus where deleted files
would not show up as deleted. There was another bug where opening a
terminal would not focus the terminal window. I'd much rather use
hyprland in this case due to the faster release cycle and simpler code
base overall.
For anyone that wants to contribute, you are free to do so. Now that my
configuration is simpler, however, as well as with the experience I've
gained over the years, there should be less things that need changing.
