#+TITLE: Readme #+AUTHOR: Chris Cochrun mailto:chris@tfcconnection.org * Welcome This repository contains all of my dotfiles to the many programs I like to use on Linux. This is primarily built with NixOS and Emacs. This is done through literate programming. So basically this README file has all the source code for the entire system. (or at least it will once I get it all finished) * NixOS The biggest part of this is through NixOS. NixOS is a declarative way of building an OS for Linux and allows an immutable and reproducible system. I really like that last part. I enjoy my config to be the same no matter how many machines I place it on. I'd also one day like this to be modular so that I'll have some switches that can turn on and off certain features. Let's start with the core of this, the flake. ** flake.nix This is not a wholly complex setup with flakes. I've seen far more complex and unique ones. But the basic idea is to have a few of our inputs setup to bring in the expected pkgs and then output things to the correct system/user. Note how in the outputs I do have some duplicated code. That is will disappear as I grow more accustomed to flakes and nix. Anyhow, the important things to gather in this file are that I'm making sure to use non-free software by making pkgs =config = { allowUnfree = true; }=. This ensures that things like the non-free linux kernel are accessible. Also, syl is my laptop and kaladin is my desktop. So those are going to be unique in the future. Both include the home-manager module. Primarily I chose that route so that I could use the same command to update the entire system without needing to update the system and user stuff seperately. #+begin_src nix :tangle flake.nix { description = "The Flake"; inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"; home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/master"; home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; }; outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, ... }: let system = "x86_64-linux"; username = "chris"; pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; config = { allowUnfree = true; }; }; lib = nixpkgs.lib; in { nixosConfigurations = { syl = lib.nixosSystem { inherit system; modules = [ ./system/syl/configuration.nix home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager { home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true; home-manager.useUserPackages = true; home-manager.users.chris = import ./user/home.nix; } ]; }; kaladin = lib.nixosSystem { inherit system; modules = [ ./system/kaladin/configuration.nix home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager { home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true; home-manager.useUserPackages = true; home-manager.users.chris = import ./user/home.nix; } ]; }; }; }; } #+end_src ** Syl Syl is my laptop and has some configuration unique to that. In particular, it's a Framework Laptop. Honestly a great piece of tech. Love it. Notice how I am including all of my software here. It may be a big file, but having all of it in one place means I can easily grok through it and remove something. #+begin_src nix :tangle system/syl/configuration.nix { config, pkgs, callPackage, ... }: { imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan. ./hardware-configuration.nix ]; nix = { extraOptions = "experimental-features = nix-command flakes"; package = pkgs.nixFlakes; }; # Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader. boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_zen; boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true; boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true; nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; boot.kernelParams = [ "mem_sleep_default=deep" ]; networking.hostName = "syl"; # Define your hostname. networking.networkmanager.enable = true; # networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant. # Set your time zone. time.timeZone = "America/Chicago"; # The global useDHCP flag is deprecated, therefore explicitly set to false here. # Per-interface useDHCP will be mandatory in the future, so this generated config # replicates the default behaviour. networking.useDHCP = false; networking.interfaces.wlp170s0.useDHCP = true; # Select internationalisation properties. i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8"; # Set default shell to be dash for speed # environment.binsh = "${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash"; environment.variables = { EDITOR = "emacsclient -t"; VISUAL = "emacsclient -c"; }; hardware.uinput.enable = true; nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: { vaapiIntel = pkgs.vaapiIntel.override { enableHybridCodec = true; }; }; hardware.opengl = { enable = true; extraPackages = with pkgs; [ intel-media-driver # LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD vaapiIntel # LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 (older but works better for Firefox/Chromium) vaapiVdpau libvdpau-va-gl ]; }; # Enable the X11 windowing system. services.xserver = { enable = true; windowManager.awesome = { enable = true; package = pkgs.myAwesome; }; }; # Enable the Plasma 5 Desktop Environment. services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true; services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true; # Configure keymap in X11 services.xserver.layout = "us"; # services.xserver.xkbOptions = "eurosign:e"; # Enable CUPS to print documents. services.printing.enable = true; services.printing.drivers = [ pkgs.gutenprint pkgs.gutenprintBin pkgs.hplipWithPlugin ]; # Enabel fingerprint services.fprintd.enable = true; # Enable sound. security.rtkit.enable = true; services.pipewire = { enable = true; alsa.enable = true; alsa.support32Bit = true; pulse.enable = true; wireplumber.enable = true; }; # Needed for some pipewire progs programs.dconf.enable = true; # Turn on flatpak services.flatpak.enable = true; # Some other things services.thermald.enable = true; services.tlp = { enable = true; settings = { CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC="performance"; CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT="powersave"; CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC="balance_performance"; CPU_ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT="power"; SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC=0; SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT=1; START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT1=70; STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT1=80; USB_ALLOWLIST="32ac:0002"; }; }; services.usbmuxd.enable = true; services.fstrim.enable = true; # Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager). services.xserver.libinput.enable = true; programs.fish.enable = true; programs.zsh.enable = true; # Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’. users.users.chris = { isNormalUser = true; extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" "input" "uinput" ]; }; programs.partition-manager.enable = true; programs.kdeconnect.enable = true; security.pam.services.kwallet = { name = "kwallet"; enableKwallet = true; }; security.pam.services.sddm.enableKwallet = true; virtualisation.waydroid.enable = true; # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run: # $ nix search wget environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ vim wget killall discover lightly-qt pinentry pinentry-qt unzip unrar p7zip zip gzip usbutils binutils hunspell hunspellDicts.en_US git openssh samba ark dash kget krename kwallet-pam plasma5Packages.kwallet libimobiledevice sddm-kcm ydotool bottles exa mpv yt-dlp rofi-emoji nerdfonts latte-dock bat libsForQt5.bismuth libnotify rofi-wayland ripgrep fd plocate bc sysstat procs pandoc papirus-icon-theme phinger-cursors plasma-hud kde-cli-tools macchina gzip htop btop firefox kate kdialog openlp libreoffice-fresh vlc neochat haskellPackages.greenclip pulsemixer any-nix-shell wtype spotdl kdenlive ffmpeg neofetch xdotool # Dev tools nix-index meson ninja gnumake gcc gdb clang cmake extra-cmake-modules pkg-config # Libraries qt5.qtbase qt5.qtquickcontrols2 qt5.qtx11extras libsForQt5.kirigami2 libsForQt5.ki18n libsForQt5.kcoreaddons fennel ]; # EMACS services.emacs.package = with pkgs; ((emacsPackagesFor emacsPgtkNativeComp).emacsWithPackages (epkgs: [ epkgs.vterm epkgs.magit epkgs.pdf-tools ])); nixpkgs.overlays = [ (import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz; sha256 = "1pd14gigm5bznzd8k88dq9scicw1zqknm87bnqmd0z556g9ir60f"; })) (self: super: { myAwesome = super.awesome.overrideAttrs (old: rec { pname = "myAwesome"; version = "git-20220508-c539e0e"; src = super.fetchFromGitHub { owner = "awesomeWM"; repo = "awesome"; rev = "c539e0e4350a42f813952fc28dd8490f42d934b3"; sha256 = "EDAL7NnLF2BiVI8DAlEciiZtDmwXOzCPypGTrlN/OoQ="; }; }); } ) ]; services.emacs.enable = true; # Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are # started in user sessions. # programs.mtr.enable = true; # programs.gnupg.agent = { # enable = true; # enableSSHSupport = true; # }; # List services that you want to enable: # Enable the OpenSSH daemon. # services.openssh.enable = true; # Open ports in the firewall. # networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ]; # networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ]; # Or disable the firewall altogether. # networking.firewall.enable = false; # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave # this value at the release version of the first install of this system. # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html). system.stateVersion = "21.11"; # Did you read the comment? } #+end_src Now in the =hardware-configuration.nix= file, I didn't change much because I wanted to keep it roughly the same in case things do get overwritten, but this is another nice feature of literate programming, should things change in the /etc folder, I'll have this readme as a backup of what it was before the changes. #+begin_src nix :tangle system/syl/hardware-configuration.nix { config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }: { imports = [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix") ]; boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "thunderbolt" "nvme" "usb_storage" "sd_mod" ]; boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ]; boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" "acpi_call" ]; boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [ acpi_call ]; fileSystems."/" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/500ad375-8fe0-4888-8f57-ee9d5ea1fd9f"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=root" "noatime" "nodiratime" "ssd" "compress=zstd" "space_cache" ]; }; boot.initrd.luks.devices."enc".device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/5db54453-8ae9-4ba0-b381-01255ac7d7f7"; fileSystems."/home" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/500ad375-8fe0-4888-8f57-ee9d5ea1fd9f"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=home" "noatime" "nodiratime" "ssd" "compress=zstd" "space_cache" ]; }; fileSystems."/nix" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/500ad375-8fe0-4888-8f57-ee9d5ea1fd9f"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=nix" "noatime" "nodiratime" "ssd" "compress=zstd" "space_cache" ]; }; fileSystems."/var/log" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/500ad375-8fe0-4888-8f57-ee9d5ea1fd9f"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=log" "noatime" "nodiratime" "ssd" "compress=zstd" "space_cache" ]; neededForBoot = true; }; fileSystems."/boot" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/E9C0-3E97"; fsType = "vfat"; }; swapDevices = [ { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/4f3c6d93-3be2-480c-8be8-fb9200c06b0c"; } ]; powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave"; hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware; # high-resolution display hardware.video.hidpi.enable = lib.mkDefault true; } #+end_src ** Kaladin Kaladin is my desktop machine. A powerhouse for the most part with a recent i7 and 64gb of memory and an Nvidia 1080. Basically I use this for video editing, animation, and some other things. Here is it's configuration. #+begin_src nix :tangle system/kaladin/configuration.nix { config, pkgs, ... }: { imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan. ./hardware-configuration.nix ]; nix = { extraOptions = "experimental-features = nix-command flakes"; package = pkgs.nixFlakes; }; # Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader. boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_zen; boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true; boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true; nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; boot.kernelParams = [ "mem_sleep_default=deep" ]; networking.hostName = "kaladin"; # Define your hostname. networking.networkmanager.enable = true; # networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant. # Set your time zone. time.timeZone = "America/Chicago"; # The global useDHCP flag is deprecated, therefore explicitly set to false here. # Per-interface useDHCP will be mandatory in the future, so this generated config # replicates the default behaviour. networking.useDHCP = false; networking.interfaces.enp0s31f6.useDHCP = true; networking.interfaces.wlp7s0.useDHCP = true; # Select internationalisation properties. i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8"; # Set default shell to be dash for speed environment.binsh = "${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash"; # NVIDIA services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ]; hardware.opengl.enable = true; # Enable the X11 windowing system. services.xserver.enable = true; # Enable the Plasma 5 Desktop Environment. services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true; services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true; # Configure keymap in X11 services.xserver.layout = "us"; # services.xserver.xkbOptions = "eurosign:e"; # Enable CUPS to print documents. services.printing.enable = true; services.printing.drivers = [ pkgs.gutenprint pkgs.gutenprintBin pkgs.hplipWithPlugin ]; # Enabel fingerprint services.fprintd.enable = true; # Enable sound. security.rtkit.enable = true; services.pipewire = { enable = true; alsa.enable = true; alsa.support32Bit = true; pulse.enable = true; wireplumber.enable = true; }; # Needed for some pipewire progs programs.dconf.enable = true; # Turn on flatpak services.flatpak.enable = true; services.usbmuxd.enable = true; services.fstrim.enable = true; # Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager). services.xserver.libinput.enable = true; #programs.fish.enable = true; programs.zsh.enable = true; # Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’. users.users.chris = { isNormalUser = true; extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" "input" ]; # Enable ‘sudo’ for the user. }; programs.partition-manager.enable = true; programs.kdeconnect.enable = true; security.pam.services.kwallet = { name = "kwallet"; enableKwallet = true; }; security.pam.services.sddm.enableKwallet = true; virtualisation.waydroid.enable = true; # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run: # $ nix search wget environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ vim wget killall discover lightly-qt pinentry pinentry-qt unzip unrar p7zip zip gzip usbutils binutils hunspell hunspellDicts.en_US git openssh samba ark dash kget krename kwallet-pam plasma5Packages.kwallet libimobiledevice sddm-kcm ydotool bottles exa mpv yt-dlp rofi-emoji nerdfonts latte-dock bat libsForQt5.bismuth libnotify rofi-wayland ripgrep fd plocate bc sysstat procs pandoc papirus-icon-theme phinger-cursors plasma-hud kde-cli-tools macchina gzip htop btop firefox kate kdialog openlp libreoffice-fresh vlc neochat haskellPackages.greenclip pulsemixer any-nix-shell wtype spotdl kdenlive blender ffmpeg neofetch xdotool # Dev tools nix-index meson ninja gnumake gcc gdb clang cmake extra-cmake-modules pkg-config # Libraries qt5.qtbase qt5.qtquickcontrols2 qt5.qtx11extras libsForQt5.kirigami2 libsForQt5.ki18n libsForQt5.kcoreaddons fennel ]; # EMACS services.emacs.package = with pkgs; ((emacsPackagesFor emacsPgtkNativeComp).emacsWithPackages (epkgs: [ epkgs.vterm epkgs.magit epkgs.pdf-tools ])); nixpkgs.overlays = [ (import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz; sha256 = "1pd14gigm5bznzd8k88dq9scicw1zqknm87bnqmd0z556g9ir60f"; })) (self: super: { myAwesome = super.awesome.overrideAttrs (old: rec { pname = "myAwesome"; version = "git-20220508-c539e0e"; src = super.fetchFromGitHub { owner = "awesomeWM"; repo = "awesome"; rev = "c539e0e4350a42f813952fc28dd8490f42d934b3"; sha256 = "EDAL7NnLF2BiVI8DAlEciiZtDmwXOzCPypGTrlN/OoQ="; }; }); } ) ]; services.emacs.enable = true; # Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are # started in user sessions. # programs.mtr.enable = true; # programs.gnupg.agent = { # enable = true; # enableSSHSupport = true; # }; # List services that you want to enable: # Enable the OpenSSH daemon. services.openssh.enable = true; # Open ports in the firewall. # networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ]; # networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ]; # Or disable the firewall altogether. # networking.firewall.enable = false; # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave # this value at the release version of the first install of this system. # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html). system.stateVersion = "21.11"; # Did you read the comment? } #+end_src And here is it's hardware config. #+begin_src nix :tangle system/kaladin/hardware-configuration.nix { config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }: { imports = [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix") ]; boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "ahci" "nvme" "usbhid" "usb_storage" "sd_mod" "sr_mod" ]; boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ]; boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ]; boot.extraModulePackages = [ ]; fileSystems."/" = { device = "/dev/nvme0n1p2"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=root" "noatime" "ssd" "space_cache" "compress=zstd" ]; }; fileSystems."/home" = { device = "/dev/nvme0n1p2"; fsType = "btrfs"; options = [ "subvol=home" "noatime" "ssd" "space_cache" "compress=zstd" ]; }; fileSystems."/boot" = { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/F9BD-D185"; fsType = "vfat"; }; swapDevices = [ ]; powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = lib.mkDefault "powersave"; hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware; } #+end_src Kaladin is still not fullly setup, so I'll be working on that more and more as time goes. * Thanks! * EXTRA Possible efibootmgr command to make efistub work on desktop #+begin_src sh efibootmgr --disk /dev/nvme0n1 --part 1 --create --label "Arch Linux" --loader /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen --unicode 'root=PARTUUID=d920ee9c-3b42-4c83-9c4c-a33406421ed1 rootflags=subvol=@ rw noatime nodiratime compress=zstd:3 ssd space_cache initrd=\initramfs-linux-zen.img' --verbose #+end_src