🏠 $HOME 🏠

Here are my standalone home-manager configuration files that are used on my NixOS systems and also other linux distribution systems.

This allows for home directory portability from machine to machine to configure once and enjoy a many times forward. If you are looking for NixOS system configuration have a peek at my NixOS Configurations.

If you would like to base your own configuration from this repository, you will need to be able to use Nix flakes.

Highlights:

• Flexible roles such as workstation, server, kiosk

• Deployment of secrets using sops-nix

• Highly configured desktop environments for i3 sway and hyprland

• Some real interesting bash scripts for automating common tasks.

• Declarative themes and wallpapers with nix-colors

• I sort of totally spent the summer of 2023 moving into this configuration after waving a fond farewell to near 2 decades of running Arch Linux. This, as with life, is still WIP. I documented the process on the Tired of IT! NixOS chapter on my website.

Tree Structure

• flake.nix: Entrypoint for home configurations.
• dotfiles: Configuration files that are outside of the Home-Manager configuration (not migrated to nix)
• home: Home Manager Configurations, accessible via home-manager switch --flake .
  • Split in between 'orgs' and common configuration this creates isolation. Based on 'roles' defaults are loaded and then each subfolder creates a different level of configuration specific to that host or role.
    • common: Shared configurations consumed by all users.
      • role: Files related to what "role" is being selected as a template
      • secrets: Secrets that are available to all users
    • generic: The 'generic' org to allow for isolation of configurations, secrets and config from various clients
    • toi: The 'toi' org to allow for isolation of configurations, secrets and config from various clients
      • secrets: Secrets that are specific to the 'toi' org
      • <hostname>: Optional subfolder to load more configuration files based on the home-manager profiles name
      • <role>: Optional subfolder to load more configuration files based on the roles name
      • <users>: Load some specific user profile information
    • sd: Similar to the above org, just another org for isolation
    • ...
• modules: Modules that are specific to this installation
  • applications: Applications and configurations
    • cli: Command line tools
    • gui: Programs with a graphical interface
  • desktop: Desktop environments
    • applications: Programs specific to desktop and window environments
    • displayServer: x or wayland configuration
    • windowManager: A variety of configurations depending on the type of window manager, or Desktop environment
  • feature - Switchable features
  • service - Daemons and services

Usage

I chose option 1 (Standalone) of the home-manager installation guide. I documented it on my website here: Tired of I.T! Home Manager Setup. The quick steps were:

• Add Home Manager Channel

nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-23.05.tar.gz home-manager
nix-channel --update

• Logout and log back in to install

nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

• This will create a default configuration flie at ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix. Lets get rid of it and clone this repository instead.

rm -rf ~/.config/home-manager
git clone https://github.com/tiredofit/dotfiles.git ~/.config/home-manager

• Activate the configuration

home-manager switch --flake ~/.config/home-manager/#<config> -v

Keep it up to date

nix flake update ~/.config/home-manager

Managing Secrets

I took some notes and documented the process of getting encrypted secrets created and keeping up to date on my website. Tired of IT! Secrets Management.

License

Do you what you'd like and I hope that this inspires you for your own configurations as many others have myself.