Questions tagged [home-manager]

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users.users..packages vs home-manager packages

Is there any practical difference between users.users.default.packages = [ pkgs.foo ]; and home-manager = { users.default = { config, pkgs, nixpkgs, lib, specialArgs, options, modulesPath, nixosConfig, …
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Which settings of XFCE can be currently configured on NixOS (during build, or afterwards via Home Manager etc.)?

Currently I am trying to create a basic configuration for my NixOS 23.05 installation with the XFCE Desktop and Window Manager. My approach is to use home-manager in standalone-mode to configure the XFCE Theme etc. on a per-user basis, which is…
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Can I (install and) use guix-home on a non-Guix Linux distribution?

I'm interested in setting up an environment of apps, libraries and utilities for use - independently and in conjunction - by a non-root user on a GNU/Linux system. Can I use GUIX's "home" mechanism for doing that, even though the OS distribution is…
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NixOS unable to find binaries/commands/packages installed (globally or locally) by asdf

I recently started to use NixOS 23.05. I'm also using Home Manager (same version). Problem I'm facing is with asdf. I installed it using Home Manager, and everything went fine. I then installed a couple of plugins, but any time I make them available…
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treesitter Neovim plugin not working on nixos

I have installed home-manager in a flake as a module. The Flake and the Module are in /etc/nixos/. My Home manager File links to another file in which I configure neovim, this file is located in /etc/nixos/config/nvim/nvim.nix. The Contents of that…
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Conflicting Nix Home Manager packages

I've been using Nix Home Manager to manage packages on Mac OS, and hit a new problem adding ripgrep to home.packages - this has previously been fine. I don't really know what the error means or how to correctly fix it - help appreciated! $…
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