My Personal Nix System Configuration

This is a project to help me to manage my Nix system configuration, mainly with Darwin and Home Manager.

What do I use?

General

Shell: fish
Terminal: alacritty
Editor: neovim
Multiplexer: ~~tmux~~ zellij
Prompt: starship
Browser: arc
Docker: orbstack
Network: tailscale
Window Tiling Manager: aerospace

Notes for future me

To use MX Master 3 bluetooth mouse with kanata

Note

Not using kanata anymore, got my zsa voyager keyboard.

Reset kanata
Restart Keychron keyboard
Both keyboard and mouse should be working

Commands to make it work (For future me)

Installing Nix on Macos

https://nixos.org/download#nix-install-macos

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)

Configure github helper

Note

Not using this anymore, this can configured directly with github cli

git credential-oauth configure

Getting localhostname

scutil --get LocalHostName

Getting username

whoami

Switch to fish shell

chsh -s (which fish)

Build nix to results

sudo nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' build .#darwinConfigurations.your-local-hostname.system

Initialise darwin rebuild

./result/sw/bin/darwin-rebuild switch --flake ~/nix-system-config

Cleanup

bash ~/nix-system-config/cleanup.sh

Installing NPM packages that are not available in Nix

Navigate to ...../modules/home-manager/node-packages and run the following command to generate a nix expression. The expression can then be added into home manager

-18 is to build with nodejs v18

nix-shell -p nodePackages.node2nix --command "node2nix -18 -i ./node-packages.json -o node"

To fix ungoogled-chromium icloud password not working

ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-macos#144 (comment)

echo '{
    "name": "com.apple.passwordmanager",
    "description": "PasswordManagerBrowserExtensionHelper",
    "path": "/System/Cryptexes/App/System/Library/CoreServices/PasswordManagerBrowserExtensionHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/PasswordManagerBrowserExtensionHelper",
    "type": "stdio",
    "allowed_origins": [
        "chrome-extension://pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj/",
        "chrome-extension://mfbcdcnpokpoajjciilocoachedjkima/"
    ]
}' > ~/Library/Application\ Support/Chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/com.apple.passwordmanager.json

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