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Added example of using 3rd party fish plugins on plain NixOS |
Bitestring (talk | contribs) m The dconf path and the fish command was incorrect. I have corrected the case to make it work. |
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Replace <code>myuser</code> with the appropriate username. | Replace <code>myuser</code> with the appropriate username. | ||
{{warning| [https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#default-shell As noted in the fish documentation], using fish as your *login* shell (via <code>/etc/passwd</code>) may cause issues, particularly for the <code>root</code> user, because fish is not POSIX compliant. While using fish as the default shell for regular users is generaly safe, caution is still advised. See | {{warning| [https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#default-shell As noted in the fish documentation], using fish as your *login* shell (via <code>/etc/passwd</code>) may cause issues, particularly for the <code>root</code> user, because fish is not POSIX compliant. While using fish as the default shell for regular users is generaly safe, caution is still advised. See [[#Setting fish as default shell]] for recommendations and mitigations.}} | ||
=== Home Manager === | === Home Manager === | ||
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grc | grc | ||
# Use 3rd-party fish plugins manually packaged. | # Use 3rd-party fish plugins manually packaged. | ||
pkgs.callPackage ../fish-colored-man.nix {buildFishPlugin = pkgs.fishPlugins.buildFishPlugin; } ) | (pkgs.callPackage ../fish-colored-man.nix {buildFishPlugin = pkgs.fishPlugins.buildFishPlugin; } ) | ||
]; | ]; | ||
</nowiki> | </nowiki> | ||
}} | |name=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|lang=nix}} | ||
Example of a file containing the definition of a fish plugin. | Example of a file containing the definition of a fish plugin. | ||
{{file|/etc/nixos/fish-colored-man.nix|nix| | {{file|/etc/nixos/fish-colored-man.nix|nix| | ||
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</nowiki> | </nowiki> | ||
}} | }} | ||
Note that if you use the copy button to the right of the above code block, there will be a unicode space before the <code>!=</code> on line 3 of the snippet that you will need to change to a non-unicode space before executing this in your shell. | |||
'''Setting fish as default for Gnome Console''' | |||
It is possible to set fish as the interactive non-login shell for Gnome Console without setting fish as the login shell (the login shell in /etc/passwd for your user will not be fish). | |||
{{File|3=home-manager.users.myuser = { | |||
dconf = { | |||
enable = true; | |||
settings."org/gnome/Console" = { | |||
shell = [ "fish" ]; | |||
}; | |||
}; | |||
};|name=home.nix|lang=nix}} | |||
If you still want to set fish as the login shell, see [[Command Shell#Changing the default shell]]. | If you still want to set fish as the login shell, see [[Command Shell#Changing the default shell]]. | ||
==== Disable man page generation ==== | |||
Some users suffer from slow build due to fish enabling `documentation.man.generateCaches`. You may force false. | |||
documentation.man.generateCaches = false'';'' | |||
For home-manager users, man cache need to be disabled in programs | |||
programs.man.generateCaches = false'';'' | |||
==== Running fish interactively with zsh as system shell on darwin ==== | ==== Running fish interactively with zsh as system shell on darwin ==== | ||