Installing on a New System

mkdir -p "$HOME/git"
cd "$HOME/git"
git clone [email protected]:mrjones2014/dotfiles.git

Then run the ./init.bash script from the repo. This will:

• Install Nix if it is not already installed.
• Install home-manager if it is not already installed.
• Create the initial Nix generation
• On macOS, it will also:
  • Configure Hammerspoon to look for config in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hammerspoon instead of $HOME/.hammerspoon.
  • Optionally, with confirmation from user, set up a bunch of macOS default settings to more sane defaults.

Then, open ./home-manager/modules/fish.nix, copy the nix-apply alias definition for your system, and run it. For first time setup, you will likely need to prefix the command with NIX_CONFIG="experimental-features = nix-command flakes" to set the Nix config to allow the nix flake command via the NIX_CONFIG environment variable. After initial setup, this is set by the conf.f/nix.conf file (which is placed at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nix/nix.conf).

On macOS, you also have to manually change the default shell to Fish.

• Run which fish to get the filepath to the Fish binary (should be something like $HOME/.nix-profile/bin/fish)
• Run sudo vi /etc/shells and add the output of which fish as an entry, then write the file and quit
• Run chsh -s $(which fish)
• Log out and back in

Managing Dotfiles

Dotfiles are managed via Nix, using flake.nix and home-manager. On NixOS, the home-manager configuration is managed as a NixOS module, so simply rebuilding your NixOS config also applies the new home-manager config. On macOS, you only have nix and home-manager so use the home-manager CLI directly.