<pinpox->
Hi, just wondering, how do you prefer to use home-manager on NixOS? I'm unsure whether I should run it from my configuration.nix or run in manually from my user account
<pinpox->
I'd like to allow users on my system to modify/switch generation their personal dotfiles without allowing them to do system-wide settings
<NobbZ[m]>
I prefer to have them separate. That still allows me to keep system config small, while the home-manager config is transferable and reusable across different hosts.
<NobbZ[m]>
Then it is a strict requirement to use stand-alone.
<pinpox->
NobbZ[m]: So you can install your dotfiles without root privileges?
<pinpox->
NobbZ[m]: Where do you put your home-manager config and how/when do you run it?
<NobbZ[m]>
As long as the user is in allowed users, they can just do anything with nix, except for switching the system generation, as that requires root access.
<NobbZ[m]>
I have it at `~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix`, as documented for a standalone, and of course I rebuild when I change something
<NobbZ[m]>
I do not have my system configuration public though, as it contains sensible data.
<pinpox>
I think I have the system part in a decent state, shouldn't be much left after taking out the home-manager stuff from there
<pinpox>
How do you decide what programs to install in your configuration.nix and what programs should be installed via home-manager for the users?
<NobbZ[m]>
Tools you require to be available as root or depend on some system level configuration, or services that are not bound to a user should go into system configuration, everything a user likes to have, belongs in their user configuration.
<pinpox>
Ok, what about something like xserver and i3?
<pinpox>
Guess not every user needs the same window manager, some might not even require X. Should I put that in home-manager then?
<NobbZ[m]>
Xserver is system, you wouldn't be able to run a DM without it. Then there should be at least one WM available as default. Then each user can use home-manager to install whatever WM they want in whatever version they want.
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: I see, that makes sense
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<Jezhehim[m]>
I was wondering about this the other day: should I be able to install a WM or Wayland compositor with home-manager and then select it as an option from my DM when logging in?
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<ihsan>
Hi, does anyone have a tip to debug this "error: value is a X while a Y was expected, at ..."
<NobbZ[m]>
Depends on what X and Y actually are… Usually its looking at the marked position and then hunting down code where that value gets defined, or reading docs about that value. Maybe go up the call chain when the value is created by function calls
<ihsan>
It is really time consuming, because the error points to complicated source codes. If I try to --show-trace and go to the files that the error points, I end up finding myself in `/nix/store/...-nixos-20.09beta538.0cfe5377e89/nixos/lib/modules.nix:323`. So that was not helpful for me. I did resolved this error once by commenting out the chunks of my
<ihsan>
configuration code and digging into commented files.
<ihsan>
I am trying to find an easier way.
<NobbZ[m]>
Use git to manage your config and commit working configs as soon as possible, when you have something that doesn't work, look at the diff and inspect the changed parts.
<ihsan>
Right, thank you for the suggestion!
<eyJhb>
Yeah, NixOS might be able to rollback, but that does not include your config.
<ihsan>
Oh, I've just searched through the output that produced with --show-trace argument, I've seen some attributes from my configuration. I didn't realize this before that there are attributes from my configuration in the output. I've just searched those phrases through my configuration with ripgrep, fixed and solved the issue. Thanks again.
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<pinpox>
I get no errors, but I still have no syntax highlighting
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<NobbZ[m]>
You might need to specify `file` that zsh knows what to source.
<NobbZ[m]>
Though that file is not a valid nix-expression at all.
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<NobbZ[m]>
pinpox: 👆️
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: That is only the relevant snippet
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: Just noticed some other plugins work just fine, so you might be right in that I need to specify a file. Do I have to do anything special for plugins providing a prompt? Specificall: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: Hm, do I need to do that fpath+=... and autoload -U... stuff manually from the README?
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: Nevermind, I figured it out: I had programs.starship.enable set to true, which was overriding the prompt
<pinpox>
p10k always was kind of slow on my machine, has it gotten better? also there seems to be a powerline-go option directly in home-manager
<pinpox>
NobbZ[m]: Related question, do you know how to disable the right side prompt? Even though I'm using the pure prompt now, it's still showing (pure has no right side prompt part)
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