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== Tips and tricks ==
== Tips and tricks ==
To change the amount of memory, the starsector game can use, add the following command to NixOS.<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
To change the amount of memory, the starsector game can use, add the following command to NixOS.<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
   (starsector.overrideAttrs ({ ... }: {
   environment.systemPackages = [
    postInstall = ''
    # overrides the NixOS package, starsector, see: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Starsector
      cp ${dotfiles/starsector/settings.json} $out/share/starsector/data/config/settings.json
    (starsector.overrideAttrs ({ ... }: {
      postInstall = ''
        cp ${dotfiles/starsector/settings.json} $out/share/starsector/data/config/settings.json


      substituteInPlace $out/share/starsector/.starsector.sh-wrapped \
        substituteInPlace $out/share/starsector/.starsector.sh-wrapped \
        --replace-fail "Xms1536m" "Xms8192m" \
          --replace-fail "Xms1536m" "Xms8192m" \
        --replace-fail "Xmx1536m" "Xmx8192m"
          --replace-fail "Xmx1536m" "Xmx8192m"
    '';
      '';
  }))
    }))
  ];
</syntaxhighlight>This commands takes the <code><code>settings.json</code></code> and changes the commandline parameters:<code>Xms</code> <code>Xmx</code> to take <code>8192m</code> or <code>8GiB</code> of RAM.
</syntaxhighlight>This commands takes the <code><code>settings.json</code></code> and changes the commandline parameters:<code>Xms</code> <code>Xmx</code> to take <code>8192m</code> or <code>8GiB</code> of RAM.
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