Similar to fish, there's some relief in knowing that I can declare my
starship settings in Nix and have them accessible from any user on the
machine, even root.
I originally wasn't going to mix logic from my dotfiles with NixOS,
however I was unable to simply use my abbreviations after adding
~/.config/fish/config.fish, so I decided to give it a try.
Using Nix to manage fish abbreviations feels nicer than using a
config.fish because I am now easily able to manipulate these
abbreviations with the limitless possibilities of the Nix language, and
with the guarantee that the output is reproducible.
Highlights:
- Added a test container with network configuration and Wayland support
- Added GNOME/Hyprland support with SDDM
- Added Git/Starship/GPG support
- Properly added Neovim support with .enable
- Various package changes
- Made caps lock function as escape on tap, left ctrl on hold
- Print screen functions as right super on hold
I used bspwm for over half a decade, and although it was great, I am now
interested in using Hyprland, which is basically bspwm for Wayland but
better.
These are my first steps towards using Nix and NixOS to declaratively
configure a reasonably good development environment. I am aware that
there are various paradigms that include using home manager and/or
flakes, however I am still exploring with a simple configuration.nix.
Notable changes:
- Set a background, start yambar, set volume, and play audio on startup
- Remove gaps by default
- Remove blur
- Increase special scale factor
- Show red for xwayland windows
This is an alternative to the default swapmaster behavior that, instead
of swapping with the first child, swaps with the last active window if
the currently focused window is master.
river is a cool Wayland compositor that I've been trying for a few days
now. There are some bugs and unimplemented features, however, that make
me want to use Hyprland instead.
