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# Home sweet home.nix



This is the place for my shell (zsh), terminal emulator (urxvt), window manager

(xmonad), editor (emacs) configuration and many more workflow improvements &

shortcuts (git aliases, fzf, z).



I used to symlink configurations from the home directory into this repository to

keep them maintainable, but have now migrated to

[home-manager](https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager) on

[NixOS](https://nixos.org) for (eventually) a full declarative experience. This

allows me to easily update and rollback between generations of my whole user

environment, as well as modularizing host-specific configs.



## Install



### On NixOS



1. Follow [installation

   instructions](https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-installation-installing)

   until `nixos-install`

2. Make sure you have mounted `/`, `/boot`, `/nix` and `/home` into `/mnt`.

3. Do a `nixos-install --flake github:ch1bo/dotfiles?submodules=1#`, set

   passwords using `nixos-enter` and reboot.

4. Rebuild system via `nixos-rebuild --flake ".?submodules=1" switch`



### Not on NixOS



Using `home-manager` and the user profile to install things from `nixpkgs`

usually works quite well, but applications with strong ties into the system are

not as straight-forward to set up. The following list contains programs I

usually require to be on the "system-level":



- `slock` - requires root via setuid, maybe a wrapper similar to NixOS helps?

- `nautilus` - uses

  [gvfs](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_manager_functionality#Mounting)

  for mounting file systems, which seems not to work (out of the box) when using

  from `nixpkgs`

- `dconf` - to configure GTK etc.

- `pcscd` / `opensc` - for smartcard support.



NOTE: For NixOS this are essentially the required parts of a host's

`configuration.nix`.



After installing these dependencies, it's just:



1. Install [nix](https://nixos.org/download.html)

2. `nix-shell --run home-manager switch -f hosts//home.nix`



### First steps at home



- Setup syncthing / nextcloud and sync `keepass` and `org` into `~/sync`.

- Fetch yubikey and `gpg --receive-key 0x59FAA903C906659A && gpg --card-status` (and `chmod 700 ~/.gnupg`).

- Prepare doom emacs using `doom sync` and `all-the-icons-install-fonts` (in `emacs`).

- Add mail credentials to secrets service, initialize and receive mails:

  ```

  secret-tool store --label='Mail ncoding.at' \

    port 465 \

    host mail.ncoding.at \

    user [email protected]

  mu init -m ~/mail [email protected]

  mu index

  offlineimap -o

  ```

- Sign in to Firefox sync.

- Generate `nix-index`.

- Setup auto-type and minimization in `keepassxc`.



## TODO / Next steps



- [x] Flake-based nixos configurations (no symlinking)

- [x] Make independent of "" (using nix flakes)

- [ ] Do auto-upgrades from CI builds (with ways to go back)

- [ ] Modularize into proper topics

  - [x] Re-integrate home config with system configuration.nix

  - [ ] DRY and modularize system configuration properly between systems

- [ ] Declarative syncthing setup

- [ ] Drop dual use support (only nixos)

  - [ ] Get rid of the dependencies (above)

- [ ] Add tooling to "swap" dotfiles like https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/hey

- [ ] Theme rofi

- [ ] New terminal emulator

- [ ] Clean up with XDG and have proper mime associations

- [ ] Reduce "first steps at home" (above)

- [ ] Set firefox settings / search engines declaratively



## Inspired by



- https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles

- https://github.com/jkachmar/dotnix

- https://github.com/fzakaria/nix-home

- https://github.com/holman/dotfiles