I do that too, here's my repo (of course also messy): https://github.com/jefdaj/nixcfg
In particular the installDotfiles function here: https://github.com/jefdaj/nixcfg/blob/master/modules/util.nix works for probably half of the dotfiles I wanted to install. The rest were more complicated and are scattered around in their own nix files. It's messy, but it definitely does work. I have all my important stuff installed this way on a couple different computers now. Jeff On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:38:12 -0600 Jonathan Glines <auntie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-06-29 8:20 GMT-06:00 Kamil Chmielewski <kamil....@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to setup NixOS on my laptop and I feel really confused with this > > 2 config files. > > I would like to have base system configuration like hardware and system > > services in /etc/nixos and other software and user configuration in > > ~/.nixpkgs. > > I'm stuck on custom gtk theme now. I don't want to install my gtk theme > > system wide, but in my user scope only. I searched everywhere and I can't > > find an example ~/.nixpkgs that will setup my env analogous to Deian conf: > > 1. gtk theme in ~/.themes > > 2. custom ~/.gtkrc-2.0 > > > > I had a repo of dotiles for debian with many other things like .gitconfig, > > .vimrc, .profile .... > > How to rewrite it to NixOS? > > Like Eelco said, there's no proper support for dotfiles in home > directories *yet*. > > But I've been using system.activationScripts as a hack to get it > working anyway. Inside my configuration.nix looks something like this: > > system.activationScripts = > { > # Configure various dotfiles. > dotfiles = stringAfter [ "users" ] > '' > cd /home/auntieneo > ln -fs ${./dotfiles/vimrc} .vimrc > ''; > }; > > What happens here is NixOS tells systemd to run an activation script > on every boot (and every time you nixos-rebuild switch) after it > creates the user accounts. It's a bash script with Nix expressions, so > there's the potential to do a lot of very clever things. Dotfiles show > up as read-only symlinks in my home directory, which works very well > for 99% of programs. > > Unfortunately, this is inside configuration.nix and not ~/.nixpkgs. > I'm not too happy about that, but when NixOS gets around to managing > user dotfiles I'm sure that will change. > > My dotfiles can be found on github (warning: very messy): > https://github.com/auntieNeo/nixrc/blob/dc744edd/configuration-common.nix#L60-L114 > > I'm pretty sure a few other people do this the same way, since I > originally discovered this method on this mailing list. > > Regards, > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev