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Hi, I am a beginner on NixOS and I am confused how to setup fonts on it. I have home-manager working properly and nerd-fonts installed. Now how to setup System,GTK,emoji and Indic fonts....
So I have been experiencing screen blackout when I use any refresh rate above 60Hz. On Arch I was able to solve this by setting a udev rule as mentioned in this ArchWiki article but it seems like I can’t do the same in NixOS using the traditional way. Is there anything I need to add in the configuration.nix file to achieve the...
Does NixOS have a way to PXE many machines via a kickstart or preseed equivalent? I’m curious to experiment with it in the context of a University environment and we use either Cobbler or Foreman for host provisioning....
Recently, I switched to NixOS and realised that there is no G’MIC plugin package for Krita....
So, I got into NixOS and installed it on a VPS a few days ago. I’ve previously used yunohost.org (a debian based all-in-one selfhosting solution) and docker-compose. But I (now) really like the Nix(OS) approach, the amount of packaged software and how everything ties together in a clean server configuration....
I’m a semi-recent NixOS user and one thing that bothers me since the beginning is that when I change the Gnome theme (between light and dark), Firefox doesn’t adapt. The system theme in Firefox is enabled, but it always displays the light theme, no matter what theme is selected in Gnome....
Any bried guide on building from source. I want build friclicli as not in nix repo. Tried to search on internet but didn’t got anything. (New to nixOS)
I’ve seen people use nix-doom-emacs, have it set up standalone, and some have fancy Nix code that’s way beyond my understanding for now to set it up. Which one is the recommended way to set it up? Also, how do you get completions in nix-mode?
I’ve been using Nix and NixOS for 4 years now. While I like using it for my PCs and tried using it for servers with success, I think its ecosystem still is immature for development and production purposes, and thus my passion for Nix has faded....
Yesterday I tried to update my nix flake but the rebuild-switch failed when it came time to install the following python3 derivation with some extra python packages:...
after updating to the new version of Dolphin, I noticed the icons don’t show up in the “Icons” layout.
I hope this is the right place to ask. I am new to Nix and trying to use it for now as a universal package manager. I installled Stremio using Nix but the app doesn’t work properly. I see that it’s several versions out of date. The same app works fine using Flatpak. Is there a way to let the maintainer know? I’d also love...
This is something that I struggle with. I know how to find top-level packages like git or cowsay. But what about utilities under nested paths? I always spend ages digging through the nixpkgs source code to try to find utilities to use in my nix expressions....
It took me a while to figure this out. I use Home Manager to manage my Gnome settings by setting dconf.settings = { … }. My settings are non-trivial (for example my paperwm module). So it’s helpful for me to check the actual dconf settings that Home Manager produces....
I’m developing a small library which intercepts some library calls from a program installed via home-manager. My library works fine outside of nix, but it fails when trying to intercept calls from a program installed via home-manager. I figured that it is related to hardcoded library paths in my interceptor library....
Could be areas of improvement as well
I want to call the escapeSystemdPath (defined in nixpgs at nixos/lib/utils.nix) to derive the name of a systemd mount unit from the target path (eg. srv-my-dir.mount from /srv/my/dir), but I can’t figure out how I can reference it… any ideas?
I want to add custom commands to my PATH but am unable to get it working. So far I’ve installed home-manager and added the code below to my nix configuration....
I’m playing around with nixos in a few VMs and at some point I realized I must have lost the swap configuration in one of my refactorings....
I have a workaround so this isn’t exactly a problem for me. I’m just curious about what is going on, and what best practices are....
I have an option that must be left with the default value when a certain flag (another option) is false....
I’d like to set a “global” option from within a submodule, but the config I return is grafted into the “global” under the submodule “path” rather than at the root… any idea if it’s somehow possible?...
Instead of getting plugins through nixpkgs I prefer to use my neovim-specific plugin manager. (In my case that’s lazy.nvim.) Mostly this works without problems - but some setup is required when a plugin needs to compile something. The plugin that has given me the most trouble is Treesitter which wants to compile grammars. Here...