TODO: REVISE WHOLE THING

nivem

My NixOS and Home Manager configurations in a Nix flake.

Features

• Hyprland and the Hypr suite;
• A modern shell experience in Zsh;
• Custom Nix packages built from source; and
• Neovim configured with the Nixvim module.

TODO: Add screenshots / videos

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What does "nivem" mean?

"Nivem" is the accusative case of the word snow in Latin whereas "nix" is the nominative case. So they mean the same thing but "nix" is the subject and "nivem" is the object... very poetic ❄️

Online Install (Home Manager)

Install a configuration without cloning this repository.

⚠️ Symlinks will be created in your home directory.

1. If Home Manager is not installed and experimental features are not enabled, run

nix develop --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' github:benvonh/nivem

2. Install the Home Manager configuration of your choice.

home-manager switch --flake github:benvonh/nivem#$USER

where $USER is an attribute in the homeConfigurations set inside the flake.nix file.

May be omitted to automatically read from the shell environment.

Standalone Install (Home Manager)

Configure Home Manager on a non-NixOS system.

⚠️ Symlinks will be created in your home directory.

1. Clone this repository; and enter the custom shell if experimental features are not enabled.

git clone https://github.com/benvonh/nivem ~/nivem

# For noobs
nix develop --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' ~/nivem

2. Create a Home Manager configuration and add to the flake.

mkdir ~/nivem/home-manager/$USER

# Create configuration...
# Refer to 

# Add to 'homeConfigurations'
vim ~/nivem/flake.nix

3. Install the Home Manager configuration.

home-manager switch --flake .#$USER@$HOST

where $USER is an attribute in the homeConfigurations set inside the flake.nix file.

Full Install (Home Manager + NixOS)

Configure NixOS and Home Manager locally through this flake.

1. Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/benvonh/nivem ~/nivem

2. Create a NixOS configuration.

mkdir ~/nivem/nixos/$HOST

cp /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix ~/nivem/nixos/$HOST

# Refer to an existing `default.nix` under `nixos/` to get started
vim ~/nivem/nixos/$HOST/default.nix

4. Add the configuration to the flake and switch to it.

vim ~/nivem/flake.nix

cd ~/nivem; git add .

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/nivem

Append #$HOST and #$USER@$HOST to the switch commands (no space) if the correct values are not set in the environment variables.

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For The Impatient

If you want a quick start to using my configurations, replace the below references, $USER and $HOST, in each of the files.

NixOS

flake.nix

nixosConfigurations = {
  $HOST = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
    specialArgs = { inherit inputs outputs; };
    modules = [ ./nixos/$HOST ];
  };
};

nixos/$HOST/default.nix

networking.hostName = "$HOST";
...
users.users.$USER = {
  home = "/home/$USER";
};

Home Manager

flake.nix

homeConfigurations = {
  "$USER@$HOST" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
    extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs outputs; };
    modules = [ ./home-manager/ben ];
    pkgs = pkgsFor.x86_64-linux;
  };
};

home-manager/$USER/default.nix

home = {
  username = "$USER";
  homeDirectory = "/home/$USER";
};

⚠️ Make sure to change personal settings such as Git username and imported NixOS hardware modules.

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Special thanks to Misterio77 for creating the nix-starter-configs!