My nix-darwin/NixOS configuration

Welcome to my nix-home.

The goal for this repo is to declaratively configure MacOS and Linux system using nixos/nix-darwin and home-manger.

feel free to take what you like.

Current MacOS setup

Shell	zsh + starship
WM	yabai + skhd + sketchybar
Terminal	Alacritty + tmux
Editor	Doom Emacs + astronvim + helix

Current NixOs setup

Shell	zsh + starship
WM	xmonad + xmobar
Terminal	Alacritty + tmux
Editor	Doom Emacs + astronvim + helix

Inspirations

https://github.com/stars/yuanw/lists/nix-home/

MacOS

Install

Install Nix (with daemon)

with official script sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) or using https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install

Turn on flake

edit /etc/nix/nix.conf experimental-features = nix-command flakes

Install nix-darwin

https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin#install

nix-build https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/archive/master.tar.gz -A installer
./result/bin/darwin-installer

install xcode

Install brew

there are lots of GUI programs, we cannot install nicely using pure nix. There is brew-module in nix-darwin. /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh) What is benefits of this ? we can install/uninstall applications using nix don’t forget to do brew analytics off

import gpg keys (airdrop)

gpg --list-secret-keys or gpg --list-secret-keys user@example.com

pub   4096R/ABC12345 2020-01-01 [expires: 2025-12-31]
uid                  Your Name <user@example.com>
sub   4096R/DEF67890 2020-01-01 [expires: 2025-12-31]

ID of your key (second column e.g “ABC12345”)

gpg --export-secret-keys YOUR_ID_HERE > private.key

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Import

gpg --import private.key

ssh file

.ssh/config

Host *
  IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Update

nix flake update --recreate-lock-file

build on macos?

nix build .#yuan-mac

switch ?

./result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild switch --flake .

How to rollback

darwin-rebuild –rollback

Nixos

$ nixos-rebuild switch --flake '.#' -user-remote-sudo

Caveats

Exclude Nix directory from Spotlight index

nix-darwin permission issue

sudo chown -R whoami:staff /nix/store

sometime yabai cannot manage emacsclient window

just do pkill yabai to restart yabai, that always fix the issue for me. I bind skhd key for pkill yabai and reload skhd sometime I found I have to sudo yabai --install-sa sudo yabai --load-sa