Home Manager: Difference between revisions

← Older edit Newer edit →

VisualWikitext

@@ Line 63: / Line 63: @@
      };
    };
-   outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager }@inputs:
+   outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager, ... }@inputs:
      nixosConfigurations.ExampleMachine = nixosConfiguration "ExmapleMachine"
        system = "x86_64-linux";
        modules = [
-        home-manager.nixosmodules.home-manager {
+          ./configuration.nix
-          nix.registry.nixos.flake = inputs.self;
+          home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
-          home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
+          {
-          home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
+            home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
+            home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
+            home-manager.users.your-username = import ./home.nix;
          };
-        # Anything else you need to import, for example
-        ./Devices/ExampleMachine.nix
        ];
      };
@@ Line 80: / Line 80: @@
 </syntaxhighlight>
-From there, in your configuration simply needs to make use of Home Manager.
+Here's an example of home manager configuration in ./home.nix
 <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
 {
-   home-manager.users.exampleuser = {
+  # Home Manager needs a bit of information about you and the
-    home.stateVersion = "24.04";
+  # paths it should manage.
-   };
+  home.username = "your-username";
+   home.homeDirectory = "/home/your-username";
+  # This value determines the Home Manager release that your
+  # configuration is compatible with. This helps avoid breakage
+  # when a new Home Manager release introduces backwards
+  # incompatible changes.
+  #
+  # You can update Home Manager without changing this value. See
+  # the Home Manager release notes for a list of state version
+  # changes in each release.
+  home.stateVersion = "24.05";
+   # Let Home Manager install and manage itself.
+  programs.home-manager.enable = true;
 }
 </syntaxhighlight>