Configuration which I use for my development purposes. Not so recently I migrated all the dotfiles
management to nix and it
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's still WIP, but mostly should work ok.
Mostly I use well-known things:
- zsh - powered by
zgenomplugin manager, lightweight shell. - nvim - initially I have used self-written config, but then switched to astronvim community distribution as long as managing well-prepared nvim configuration is a pretty hard task as for today.
- tmux - terminal multiplexer, configuration managed by
nix(seenix/tmux.nixfile).
And also some set of handy tools, such as exa, jq, rg.
Initially, only nix and git must be installed. Be sure that nix is up-to-date:
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable
nix-channel --updateClone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/seroperson/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles/And then let the home-manager do the rest:
nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run home-manager/release-24.11 -- init --switch $HOME/.dotfiles/Next, you should do chsh $USER -s $HOME/.nix-profile/bin/zsh and re-login.
Finally, be sure to install nerd-font and catpuccin mocha theme for your terminal.
To build this configuration without applying, first you have to build it:
docker run --rm -it --entrypoint bash cguenther/ubuntu-nix:24.04-9
nix develop --impure github:seroperson/dotfiles
In order to update installed packages, use the following commands:
nix-channel --update
nix-env -u --always
nix flake update
And then re-init home-mmanager with command from section above.
Usually nix doesn't work as expected and you don't know what to do. It is good idea to start your troubleshooting with global cleanup:
nix-channel --update
nix-env -u --always
rm /nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto/*
rm -rf $HOME/.cache/nix
nix-collect-garbage -dAlso it's possible to debug nix variables using nix repl. For example, to
load flake into repl, you can do the following:
nix repl
nix-repl> :lf ./
nix-repl> builtins.attrNames homeConfigurations.seroperson
nix is not easy thing to get started with, but luckily it has a lot of guides available across the web.
Here are some of them: