dotfiles

The settings for the things I like.

Managing with Home Manager (Flakes)

This repository includes a Home Manager flake configuration that declaratively manages dotfiles and XDG configuration directories.

Usage

To apply the configuration using an existing home-manager installation:

home-manager switch --flake .

You can also install or apply it directly using nix run:

nix run github:nix-community/home-manager -- switch --flake .

To validate the flake configuration:

nix flake check

Structure

• flake.nix: Defines inputs (nixpkgs and home-manager) and exposes a generic default homeConfiguration.
• home.nix: Main Home Manager module entry point.
• modules/dotfiles.nix: Handles symlinking root dotfiles (e.g., .zshenv, .tmux.conf) and ~/.config directories (e.g., alacritty, i3, zsh). Also maps GnuPG files from config/gnupg to ~/.gnupg and fonts from config/fonts to ~/.fonts.
• modules/packages.nix: Declarative user packages.

What the heck is .darwin?

I found when using OSX and Homebrew, I was installing brew to a non standard directory ($HOME/.homebrew). This meant my shell would not pick up the executeables I had installed via brew install (which are numerous).

Rather than try to continue to hack it, I added a .darwin file to be sourced first (and therefore fix the path).

The .darwin file is in orthros/brewfiles