dotfiles

My personal dotfiles

Structure

• /dotfiles: Configuration files, like .conf, .json files
• /home-manager: Home manager configuration
• /lib: Helper functions
• /nixos: Nix configuration for nixos-rebuild commands
• /overlays: Custom packages

Installation

NixOS

First get a shell with the required dependencies:

nix develop github:jlesquembre/dotfiles

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ~/dotfiles

That commnads assumes that a file with the same name as the current hostname at nixos/hosts. For example, if the hostname is foo, the file will be /nixos/hosts/foo.nix. That file is the main entry point for the NixOS configuration.

We can override the flake hostname with the #name syntax, e.g.: --flake ~/dotfiles#other-name

Home manager

home-manager switch --flake ~/dotfiles

To add some extra custom config for only one host, add a file with that hostname at home-manager/hosts

To build home-manager for a different host use the # syntax, but for home-manager the user name is also required, e.g.:

home-manager switch --flake ~/dotfiles#user@host

Update dependencies

nix flake lock --update-input

Run neovim

Useful to get neovim with my config anywhere:

nix run github:jlesquembre/dotfiles#nvim