Ghostty's OpenGL 4.3 floor broke the Acer (HD 4000 / 4.2). Dual-terminal
support (default Ghostty + install-time Kitty fallback) was more complexity
than it was worth.
- Remove ghostty.nix / nomarchy.ghostty.enable
- Kitty always installed and themed from theme-state
- Default nomarchy.terminal = kitty; SUPER+Return, doctor, calendar,
what-changed use kitty --class=com.nomarchy.*
- Drop install-time glxinfo probe and mesa-demos on the installer
- Docs/REQUIREMENTS no longer list OpenGL 4.3 as a terminal floor
Verified: V0 flake check; option-docs; installer-safety; template HM has
kitty, no ghostty; menu/calendar emit classed kitty launches.
Ghostty needs OpenGL 4.3; older GPUs (Intel HD 4000) top out at 4.2.
Installer probes glxinfo and writes settings.terminal=kitty into
theme-state when below the floor. modules/home/kitty.nix enables Kitty
with the same palette, mono font, and opacity as Ghostty so the fallback
still looks like Nomarchy.
Default machines stay Ghostty-only (no kitty in the HM closure). Doctor
and calendar still invoke Ghostty by class — V3 on Acer for SUPER+Return.
Verified: V0 flake check; installer-safety; HM with terminal=kitty builds
themed kitty.conf + TERMINAL=kitty; default template has no kitty bin.
Make keyboard typing filter-only with Gum strict mode, validate interactive and unattended choices against the pinned XKB catalog before any disk mutation, and show resolved human-readable choices in review.
Verified: V1 flake eval, focused installer builds, shell/Python/diff checks; current-ISO KVM boot proved the packaged new flow while the pre-destructive interaction pass continued.
#50: Bluetooth menu row + handler self-gate on `command -v
blueman-manager` (no-op when bluetooth is off, like Printers); Control
Center rollback list /tmp/nomarchy-gens → mktemp; usbutils on the
nomarchy-install PATH (fingerprint lsusb probe); export
nomarchy-doctor/control-center/battery-notify as flake packages.
Verified V0 (flake check) + V1 (packages, installer, HM generation build).
Also records #46: the swap=0 + unattended-LUKS fail-closed contracts
(208b8d4) V2-verified via a headless two-variant install — fail-closed
exits before wipe with the disk blank; swap=0 installs with no @swap
subvol and boots to a themed desktop. Both items removed from NEXT.
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Make the downstream template the single source of truth for machine
flakes: nomarchy-install copies flake/system/home/theme-state and
patch-template.py only fills hostname, user, keyboard, detected
hardware, snapper, resume, and password. Install and flake-init users
now share the same commented opt-ins and starter home.packages.
Also: BACKLOG boreal-as-default proposal; installer audit notes;
HARDWARE.md from prior work if uncommitted.
Found by running the unattended install in an offline QEMU VM:
- compgen is missing from nixpkgs' non-interactive bash (the package
shebang) — replaced with plain glob tests in hardware-db and prewipe
- disko's eval resolves <nixpkgs> via NIX_PATH (a dead channel on the
ISO) and tried channels.nixos.org — export NIX_PATH to the pinned
nixpkgs source and point the flake registry at an empty baked file
- lock nomarchy by path (the source the ISO carries) instead of
git+https: git inputs clone even when narHash is known, which kills
offline installs; `original` keeps the forge URL so a later
`nix flake update` re-resolves normally. Works from dirty-tree ISOs too.
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- LUKS2 is the installer default; in exchange the generated config sets
the new nomarchy.system.greeter.autoLogin (greetd initial_session) —
the disk passphrase already gates the machine.
- @snapshots subvolume + nomarchy.system.snapper.enable: hourly/daily
timeline snapshots of / and the nixos-rebuild-snap helper, ported from
the previous iteration (3bdfc35), guarded to no-op on non-BTRFS roots.
- @swap subvolume with a swapfile sized to RAM by default (disko
mkswapfile handles NOCOW); the installer computes the resume offset
and wires boot.resumeDevice + resume_offset for hibernation.
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Ported from the previous iteration's installer (3bdfc35), adapted to the
mkFlake world. gum TUI: disk pick, optional LUKS2, user/hostname/timezone,
DMI → nixos-hardware autodetection (hardware-db.sh). disko partitions
GPT + 1 GiB ESP + BTRFS subvolumes; the generated machine flake lands at
~user/.nomarchy (one mkFlake call, /etc/nixos symlinks to it) and
nixos-install makes it bootable (UEFI/systemd-boot, v1 single disk).
Offline by construction: the target flake.lock is composed from the rev
the ISO was built from (compose-lock.py), `nix flake archive` seeds the
target store, and the ISO pre-builds the template system + desktop.
First boot lands themed: the HM generation is pre-activated in chroot.
mkFlake grows two things for this: hardwareProfile now also takes a list
(autodetection emits several common-* modules), and installed systems get
the standalone home-manager CLI from the pinned input. Unattended mode
(NOMARCHY_UNATTENDED=1 + env) documented in docs/TESTING.md §4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>