NixOS Flake for Hyprdots

This flake has been made specifically to try and bring Hyprdots to NixOS. To make it work, I had to abandon some reproducible parts of the nix flake such as the gtk theme.

So far, I have successfully setup hyprdots from the git repo without making big modifications to the hyprdots repo. The most significant modification made is to the ~/.config/hypr/keybindings.conf so that waybar plays nice. I'll write a bash script to install the dots soon. For now, I'm still working on the flake.

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Installation

Flake

Clone the repo.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sandeng1440/nixos-config ~/nixos-config
cd nixos-config

Change the user variables i.e username, hostname, etc inside the variables.nix file.

nvim variables.nix

While inside the clone directory, generate the hardware configuration file.

nixos-generate-config --show-hardware-config > system/hardware.nix

Then rebuild the system. (Replace <hostname> with your hostname)

NIX_CONFIG="experimental-features = nix-command flakes" 
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<hostname>

Important

THE FOLLOWING WILL DELETE SOME OF YOUR FILES. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Hyprdots installation through HyDE-cli

Clone the HyDE-cli repo.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/kRHYME7/Hyde-cli.git ~/Hyde-cli

Cd into the repo and use make to install it.

cd ~/Hyde-cli
make LOCAL=1

Now that Hyde-cli is installed, you may use it to restore the configuration files. First clone the Hyprdots repo in your home directory.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots.git ~/hyprdots

Then link the directory to Hyde-cli.

Hyde-install --dir ~/hyprdots --no-package --link

It will fail but don't worry, the link has been established, which is the important part. Now restore the configs using hyprdots then Hyde-cli.

sed -i '/continue 2/d' ~/hyprdots/Scripts/restore_cfg.sh
~/hyprdots/Scripts/restore_cfg.sh
Hyde restore Config

Then replace the ~/.config/hypr/keybindings.conf with ~/nixos-config/setup/keybindings.conf. This fixes the bug with waybar, where it is duplicated. The bug is because the name of the waybar process is .waybar-wrapped. (Execute ps -a to confirm)

cp -f ~/nixos-config/setup/keybindings.conf ~/.config/hypr/keybindings.conf

Now use Hyde-cli to patch themes.

Hyde theme patch

Note

This command has failed a lot for me. If it fails on you, then patch the themes using this script ~/hyprdots/Scripts/themepatcher.sh. The core hyprdots themes are listed in ~/hyprdots/Scripts/themepatcher.lst. For example, to patch Catppuccin Mocha theme, execute:

~/hyprdots/Scripts/themepatcher.sh "Catppuccin Mocha" "https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyde-themes/tree/Catppuccin-Mocha"

Now reboot and enjoy your Hyprdots.

(Optional) Hyprdots manual installation

Clone the Hyprdots repo.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots.git ~/hyprdots
cd ~/hyprdots/Scripts

Run the restore_cfg.sh.

./restore_cfg.sh

Run the themepatcher for the themes you want. (Check the themepatcher.lst for the available themes)

./themepatcher "<Your Theme>" "<url to the theme>"

TODO

• Install sddm theme
• Write install script
• Make the flake generic
• Modularize the flake
• Integrate hyprdots with home-manager
• Debloat the flake
• Move to stable hyprland and stable nix pkgs