dotfiles 2.0

This repository fully describes my current NixOS user environment in a completely reproducible manner using home-manager. Coupling this with the declarative system configuration in nixos_system I am able to trivially maintain a common computing environment across multiple machines. Furthermore it is possible to reproduce this environment on a new computer in the time it takes to download and build the derivations.

Overview

The desktop environment consisting of XMonad, custom theming and a selection of utilities and applications is configured by the derivations in the gui folder. e.g. check out gui/xmonad.nix and gui/gtk.nix to get started.

home-manager doesn't have to be installed in the user environment and is only required for applying the configuration.

Host specific config

The host folder contains a selection of host specific definitions to be selected via the hostname declared by the global system config.

Instantiation

If you are me and want to instantiate the setup on a given host:

nix flake clone git+https://code.kummerlaender.eu/nixos_home --dest dotfiles 
cd dotfiles
nix run .#host

Modules

Recently I started to develop a kind of module to generate application shortcuts that are then easily launchable via Rofi. This is very useful for quickly starting shells and editors in project-specific nix-shell environments or maintaining generic playground environments for various programming languages. See tasks/default.nix and module/tasker.nix for details.