BACKLOG #116. `nomarchy.settings` is declared in exactly one place —
modules/home/options.nix:412, the Home Manager side. On NixOS the attribute
does not exist, and `or <fallback>` swallows the missing-attribute error, so
four options that "defaulted from the state" had silently been their fallback
on every machine ever built.
The item said three options, and called them benign. Both halves were wrong,
and re-grepping rather than trusting the account is what found it:
* There were four. The original enumeration read options.nix instead of
modules/nixos/ and missed services.nix's printing.enable — the same
mistake in miniature as the bug it was filing.
* Two were live user-facing bugs. Control Center is shipped
(default.nix:337) and reachable from the menu; its Bluetooth and Printing
toggles wrote settings.{bluetooth,printing}.enable and printed "requires
rebuild", and the rebuild changed nothing. They had never worked.
The fix is one shape, now uniform: the option declares a STATIC default, and
the implementing module reads the state via theme-state-read.nix (fails closed
on bad JSON, unlike greeter.nix's raw fromJSON — also moved onto the reader
here) and mkDefaults it behind `mkIf (state != null)`. An absent key leaves the
option default as the single source of the fallback; a hand-set system.nix
value still pins it. batteryChargeLimit gets no bridge and loses its dead read:
power.nix's oneshot already reads that key with jq at RUNTIME and prefers it
over the baked value, which is why that menu worked all along.
V2. The bug is proved real before/after on the same flipped state: BEFORE,
bluetooth stays true and printing stays false; AFTER, both flip, and a hand-set
value still outranks the state. Nothing in a build fails when a bridge dies, so
the guards are the point — checks.state-bridges asserts 11 eval cases, and
checks.printing-from-state boots a VM whose only input is the state file and
waits for a running cups.service. The guard was itself proved to fail:
re-breaking the bluetooth bridge makes it throw, naming both assertions. A
check that passes whether or not the property holds is worse than no check
(625b7e3). flake check, option-docs, template-sot, downstream-template-*,
installer-safety, hardware-toggles and battery-charge-limit all pass.
No V3: the mechanism is fully proved headlessly. Design record in ROADMAP §
NixOS-side state bridges (#116); new #117 (PROPOSED) for the control-center
toggles still leaving the rebuild to the user.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added toggles for updates, battery limit, bluetooth, and printing to the Control Center. Wired default values to read from theme-state.json settings. Verified: V1.
nomarchy.services.tailscale now makes the login user the Tailscale
operator (services.tailscale.extraSetFlags = ["--operator=<username>"],
mkDefault), so `tailscale up/down/set` — and the System → VPN menu's
Tailscale controls — run without sudo. The user is already in wheel, so
the operator grant is no real new privilege, just skips the prompt.
nomarchy-vpn's Tailscale actions are now operator-aware: a ts_priv
helper runs the subcommand inline and only falls back to a sudo terminal
if the operator grant is absent (downstream dropped it). Connect brings
an authed-but-down node up inline; a node that still needs interactive
login goes to a terminal so the auth URL is visible.
Option description + template comment updated; ROADMAP follow-up closed.
System + home builds green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A `nomarchy-menu printers` entry opens system-config-printer (the CUPS
admin GUI), mirroring the bluetooth/blueman pattern: the printing service
ships the package via environment.systemPackages and the menu execs it,
self-gated on the system-config-printer binary so the entry appears only
when nomarchy.services.printing is on. No direct keybind (rare one-off).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VM-verified the full batch of opt-in service toggles (libvirt, docker, obs
+ v4l2loopback, ollama, printing, openrgb, wireshark, adb, gamemode,
kdeconnect, restic) in a headless nixosTest — all green, no module bugs.
The one thing worth surfacing: services.restic ships a pre-configured
`restic-nomarchy` wrapper (repository + passwordFile baked in) for listing
and restoring snapshots. Mention it in the option description and README so
the restore path is discoverable — a backup you can't restore is half a
feature.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Finishing the four remaining "opt-in services" candidates — but two of
them aren't service-shaped, so the package-vs-toggle principle applies:
- Nextcloud client → a bare tray app; already in the app-suite menu,
not a service.
- WireGuard → NetworkManager (on distro-wide) imports .conf
tunnels natively, so there's no daemon to "just
enable". Only the wg/wg-quick CLI is missing →
wireguard-tools added to the app-suite menu.
The two that ARE config-backed become nomarchy.services.* toggles:
- openrgb → services.hardware.openrgb (daemon + device udev rules).
- restic → a small scaffolded surface (repository / passwordFile /
paths) over services.restic.backups: daily timer, 7/4/6
retention, --exclude-caches, repo auto-init. Asserts that
repository + passwordFile are set when enabled. passwordFile
is typed `str`, not `path`, so a flake-relative secret can't
be copied into the world-readable store.
README option table and ROADMAP (services now "Seventeen shipped";
cloud-sync / networking / backup / devices areas updated) + the downstream
system.nix examples. Both branches eval-verified; the restic assertions
confirmed firing when repo/password are unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make the whole workstation menu available, all off/commented by default.
home.nix: the bare GUI apps become a categorized commented menu (~50
suggestions across browsers, comms, office, notes, code, graphics, A/V,
media, gaming, files/sync, security, system, local AI) — uncomment to add.
services.nix: the members that need system config (not just a package)
become opt-in nomarchy.services.* toggles, each with a commented example
in the downstream system.nix:
- docker → rootful Docker + user in docker group; asserts against the
podman docker-compat (both provide the `docker` command)
- kdeconnect → programs.kdeconnect (opens phone-pairing ports)
- gamemode → Feral GameMode daemon
- adb → android-tools (programs.adb was removed; systemd ≥258 does
the device uaccess udev rules, so no group needed)
- wireshark → Qt GUI + user in wireshark group (capture without root)
- ollama → local LLM runtime on 127.0.0.1:11434
- printing → CUPS + Avahi/mDNS network printer discovery
README option table and ROADMAP (services item now "Fifteen shipped";
local-AI / containers / gaming / devices areas marked) updated. All seven
branches eval-verified with the toggles forced on; the docker/podman
assertion confirmed firing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "default application suite" roadmap item, but deliberately NOT a
nomarchy.apps.* option surface: a bare package install has no config to
put behind a toggle, so a thin `mkIf x { systemPackages = [p]; }` only
reinvents what a package list already gives. Instead the suite is a
curated home.packages list in templates/downstream/home.nix (extending
the existing `# firefox` convention) — active staples (libreoffice,
vscode, gimp, inkscape, mpv, amberol) plus commented suggestions. The
opt-out is deleting a line; it also keeps the apps out of the live ISO
automatically (the ISO never scaffolds from the template).
The members that DO need system config become nomarchy.services.* opt-in
toggles instead (config behind the switch, like the existing services):
- steam → programs.steam (32-bit stack, controller udev, RP ports)
- libvirt → libvirtd + virt-manager, login user added to libvirtd group
- obs → obs-studio + a v4l2loopback virtual camera (exclusive_caps=1)
selectable as a webcam in Zoom/Teams
README option table, ROADMAP (services item now "Eight shipped"; suite
item marked done with the no-surface rationale) and the downstream
system.nix examples updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extend nomarchy.services.* with three more opt-in toggles:
- podman: rootless containers, `docker` aliased to it, container DNS, and a
subuid/subgid range for the login user.
- flatpak: services.flatpak + a oneshot that adds the Flathub remote
system-wide (idempotent, retries when online).
- pika: ships pika-backup, the GUI for scheduled Borg backups.
Commented examples in the downstream system.nix template, per convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Start the opt-in services surface: nomarchy.services.{tailscale,syncthing},
off by default, in modules/nixos/services.nix. Tailscale ships the daemon
(authenticate with `sudo tailscale up`); Syncthing runs as the login user
with its GUI on 127.0.0.1:8384 (overrideDevices/Folders off so GUI-managed
folders survive rebuilds). username is read lazily, only when Syncthing is
on. Commented examples in the downstream system.nix template per the opt-in
convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
