Welcome to the Satellite

In case you are not familiar with nix/nixos, this is a collection of configuration files which build all my systems in a declarative manner. The tool used to configure the global system is called nixos, and the one used to configure the individual users is called home-manager.

Features this repository includes:

• Consistent base16 theming using stylix
• Agenix & homeage based secret management
• Sets up all the apps I use — including git, neovim, fish, tmux, starship, xmonad, rofi, polybar, discord, zathura, alacritty & more.

The current state of this repo is a refactor of my old, messy nixos config, based on the structure of this template.

Hosts

This repo's structure is based on the concept of hosts - individual machines configured by me. I'm naming each host based on things in space/mythology (they are the same picture). The hosts I have right now are:

• tethys - my personal laptop
• lapetus - older laptop running as a server
• euporie - barebones host for testing things insdie a VM

File structure

Location	Description
common	Configuration loaded on both nixos and home-manager
dotfiles	Contains some of the bigger dotfile dirs. Will eventually be moved
hosts/nixos	Nixos configurations
home	Home manager configurations
pkgs	Nix packages
overlays	Nix overlays
devshells	Nix shells
stylua.toml	Lua formatter config for the repo
flake.nix	Nix flake entrypoint!
shell.nix	Bootstrapping nix shell
nixpkgs.nix	Pinned nixpkgs for bootstrapping
secrets.nix	Agenix entrypoint

Points of interest

Here's some things you might want to check out:

• My neovim config
• The flake entrypoint for this repository

Things I use

This does not include links to every plugin I used for every program here. You can see more details in the respective configurations.

Fundamentals

• Nixos — nix based operating system
• Home-manager — manage user configuration using nix
• Impernanence — see the article about erasing your darlings
• Agenix & homeage — secret management
• Slambda — custom keyboard chording utility
• disko — format disks using nix
  • zfs — filesystem

Graphical

• Stylix — base16 module for nix
  • Base16 templates — list of base16 theme templates
  • Catpuccin — base16 theme I use
  • Rosepine — another theme I use
• Hyprland — wayland compositor
  • Wlogout — wayland logout menu
  • Hyprpicker — hyprland color picker
  • Grimblast — screenshot tool
  • Dunst — notification daemon
  • Wlsunset — day/night screen gamma adjustements
  • Anyrun — program launcher
• Wezterm — terminal emulator
• Zathura — pdf viewer
• Firefox — web browser
• Tesseract — OCR engine
• Obsidian — note taking software

Terminal

There are many clis I use which I did not include here, for the sake of brevity.

• Neovim — my editor
  • Neovide — neovim gui client
  • Vimclip — vim anywhere!
  • Firenvim — embed neovim in web browsers
• Tmux — terminal multiplexer
• Fish — user friendly shell
  • Starship — shell prompt
• Ranger — file manager
• GPG + pass
• Self management:
  • Smos — A comprehensive self-management System.
  • Intray — GTD capture tool.

Services

• Syncthing — file synchronization

Hall of fame

Includes links to stuff which used to be in the previous section but is not used anymore. Only created this section in June 2023, so stuff I used earlier might not be here. Sorted with the most recently dropped things at the top.

• Mind.nvim — self management tree editor. The project got archived, so I switched to Smos.
• Null-ls — general purpose neovim LSP. The project got archived, so I switched to formatter.nvim.
• Wofi — program launcher. I switched to Anyrun.
• Alacritty — terminal emulator
• Xmonad — xorg window manager. I switched to Hyprland.
  • Polybar — desktop bar
  • Rofi — program launcher. I switched to Wofi.
  • Spectacle — screenshot tool. I switched to Grimblast.
• Chrome — web browser. I switched to firefox because it offers a better HM module.

Future

Tooling I might use in the future:

• nix-darwin - like nixos but for macs
• eww - widget framework