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.
BACKLOG #118. Bernardo booted the live ISO and the Waybar health icon was red,
reporting smartd. Everything downstream turned out to be working correctly,
which is the part worth recording: smartd's config is DEVICESCAN, and where no
drive answers SMART it exits 17 ("Unable to monitor any SMART enabled
devices"), systemd marks the unit failed, nomarchy-doctor faithfully reports a
failed system unit, and Waybar paints @bad. The doctor was telling the truth.
smartd was the bug.
Scope was never live-only, which is why this sat in NOW rather than as a live
nit: services.smartd.enable mkDefaults true on every machine and QEMU virtio
exposes no SMART, so every VM install has been booting to a health warning
about a daemon with nothing to do — and every V2 run had been showing it as
noise.
Fixed with the distro's own self-gate convention: an ExecCondition running
`smartctl --scan`, which prints nothing exactly when smartd would find nothing.
A failed condition leaves the unit inactive rather than failed. Deliberately
NOT SuccessExitStatus = 17: that would also swallow exit 17 from a machine that
does have drives, which is the entire reason the daemon ships.
V2. checks.smartd-gate boots the REAL distro module rather than a restatement
of it (its nixpkgs.config needs mkForce to yield to the test's pkgs) and
asserts both halves, because they pull in opposite directions: a gate that
never skips leaves the red icon, and a gate that always skips silently disables
drive-health monitoring on real hardware — the failure nobody notices until a
disk dies quietly. So the no-SMART node must go ActiveState=inactive, unfailed,
and absent from `systemctl --failed` (what the doctor actually reads); and the
gate's logic is driven against a scan that DOES find a device, since QEMU
cannot answer SMART honestly and pretending otherwise would test nothing. The
check was proved to fail by unwiring the condition. flake check, doctor,
hardware-toggles, live-baseline-apps, option-docs and state-bridges pass.
V3 pending: that smartd still RUNS where drives have SMART (dev box, real
NVMe). Queued with an explicit fail-condition — if it skips there, revert the
gate rather than tune it.
Also swept: #120's size table said the duplicate chromium was gone; #121 was
reverted, so it is back and the table says so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Post-migration annoyances from TuringMachine:
- Force fprintAuth from fingerprint.pam (NixOS defaults it on with fprintd)
- First-boot toast waits for swaync, retries, only marks after success
- Night light status/toggle handles masked units + hyprsunset/wlsunset
- VPN menu: define rofi_menu in nomarchy-vpn (was a silent no-op)
- Left arrow = ↩ Back in list menus; GTK menu contrast via Stylix
- Mic-mute LED udev + sync after wpctl; EasyEffects starts after tray
- Migration guide: HM before GUI login, fingerprint/browser/VPN notes
Verified: flake check --no-build; checks.first-boot; checks.hardware-toggles
(pam=false node). V3 session items pending after user rebuild.
Raise priority.session for HDMI/DisplayPort (1100) and USB (1050) ALSA
outputs so the default sink follows dock plug/unplug; built-in analog
wins again when externals disappear. Rules live in
modules/nixos/dock-audio-rules.nix; checks.dock-audio covers the contract.
Verified: V2 — flake check --no-build; checks.dock-audio green.
V3 pending: HARDWARE-QUEUE #87 real HDMI/USB-dock hotplug.
Extract nomarchy-pull/rebuild/home to pkgs/nomarchy-lifecycle; install
via system + home. Home profile wins on PATH so home-manager switch
installs the fixed pull (skip git when no upstream) without waiting
for a system rebuild that needed a working pull first.
V0: flake check --no-build green.
Machine flakes often have no remote (local auto-commits only). Distro
updates come from nix flake update of the nomarchy input. Only git pull
--ff-only when @{u} is set; always update the lock; print nomarchy rev.
sys-update / sys-rebuild / home-update tee output and on failure print
the last 40 log lines plus nomarchy-doctor + RECOVERY.md. theme-sync HM
switch failure notify/die text matches. Close#56.
Verified: V1 (HM rebuild; failure-footer shell smoke).
Package the installer’s pure hardware-db probe as nomarchy-detect-hw:
prints suggested hardwareProfile and system.nix snippets (or --raw
protocol lines). Does not rewrite the flake. On PATH via the distro
module; docs/HARDWARE.md §8 updated. Close#58.
Verified: V1 (build + run on AMD laptop with fingerprint/NPU/IR cam).
#54: permanent checks.installer-safety; test-install-safety harness with
offline compose-fail, LUKS-signature disk warn, and HM-hint FORCE paths.
#33: enable themed rofi scrollbars (generated + all whole-swap .rasi).
#43: MOTD + first-boot tip for System › Firmware (V3 LVFS stays hw-queue).
V2: compose-fail/disk-warn/hm-hint logs green offline; theme-shot
boreal+summer-night menus OK. V0 flake/installer-safety.
Boreal — a Nord × Everforest × Dracula dark theme: a boreal forest at
night under the aurora. Nord's frost bones, Everforest's comfort, Dracula's
jewel-tone violet/cyan as the aurora light.
Palette (WCAG-checked, all 24 themes × 7 pairings pass): frost-slate base,
soft-vivid violet accent (#B79BE8, 6.35 on base) + frost-cyan accentAlt
(#86C7C0, 7.84 AAA), sage-green/gold/coral semantics, text 10.66 AAA.
Bespoke, non-standard surfaces:
- Waybar whole-swap (jsonc + css): a floating "aurora frost" bar of three
frosted-glass pills; launcher+clock left, workspaces centre, and the whole
right side is ONE continuous pill — the system tray shares its glass with
the status modules, no separators (the seamless-tray requirement). Full
module set (parity). GeistMono.
- Rofi: a frosted list base (used by every menu), plus a 4×3 large-icon grid
for the app launcher only.
- Typography GeistMono Nerd Font (57 MB, new); Iosevka was rejected at 1.1 GB.
Per-theme appearance (new): a preset now carries a full fonts+ui block, like
border, so a theme can ship a bespoke font / terminal opacity / border
thickness / rounding and a switch always replaces it — no leak into the next
theme (verified: boreal→everforest resets mono/rounding/opacity). All 23 other
presets get the current defaults (idempotent — zero visual change). Boreal
runs GeistMono + 0.90 terminal opacity + 3px borders + 12px rounding.
Grid launcher (new, backward-compatible): drun renders via `-theme launcher`;
HM writes ~/.local/share/rofi/themes/launcher.rasi which defaults to
`@import "custom.rasi"` (every other theme's launcher = its list, unchanged),
and a theme may override it (Boreal's grid). Text menus keep the base list.
Wallpaper: an original procedurally-generated aurora-over-treeline (ImageMagick),
palette-matched.
V1: nix flake check --no-build green; strict JSON on every preset; contrast
checker green; the real rofi binary parses the base rasi and resolves
`-theme launcher` + @import + grid overlay; end-to-end eval with boreal active
resolves the waybar whole-swap (tray in the right cluster), the rofi grid
launcher, and the bespoke fonts/opacity/geometry reaching nomarchy.theme, with
no cross-theme contamination. NOT done: on-screen render of the desktop
(V2/V3) and preview.png (deferred to on-hardware capture).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New modules/nixos/greeter.nix owns the greetd block (moved out of
default.nix) plus the theming, the Plymouth model — baked at SYSTEM
rebuild from nomarchy.system.stateFile. Two parts, because tuigreet
draws on the VT with the 16 ANSI slots: console.colors becomes the
theme's ansi[] (vt.default_* kernel params — which also themes raw
ttys and the LUKS passphrase prompt), and tuigreet gets a --theme of
NAMED slots (its parser is ratatui Color::from_str, checked in source;
the names map to the standard indexes the retinted palette now
serves). A sparse state without ansi skips theming cleanly.
Verified: V0; V1 — the template-system toplevel bakes the full --theme
spec into greetd.toml and all three vt.default_{red,grn,blu} palettes
into kernel-params. A checks.greeter VM test was attempted and dropped
after bisecting: tuigreet dies under runNixOSTest even without the
flag (harness limit; nixpkgs's own greetd test uses agreety) —
recorded in agent/MEMORY.md. Remains: V3 rendering +
theme-follows-rebuild on hardware (HARDWARE-QUEUE).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The last niceties slice: pick a pixel's color into the clipboard.
hyprpicker joins grim/slurp in systemPackages; a new nomarchy-menu
`colorpicker` mode captures its output, wl-copies it, and toasts the
hex (Esc = silent cancel). Tools › row self-gates on hyprpicker being
present; SUPER+CTRL+P added in keybinds.nix, so the Hyprland bind and
the SUPER+? cheatsheet row come from the one source. Item 13 complete
and deleted from BACKLOG.
Verified: V0 (flake check); V1 — template-home and template-system
build; rendered nomarchy-menu passes bash -n and contains the mode +
gated row; cheatsheet has the SUPER+CTRL+P row; hyprland.conf has the
bind; the system toplevel ships sw/bin/hyprpicker. Remains: V3 — real
loupe → click → wl-paste round-trip in a session (HARDWARE-QUEUE).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The things that actually break user machines, one command (and menu ›
System › Doctor): failed system/user units, disk space (real
filesystems only — fstype allowlist makes it VM/live safe, device
dedupe collapses / and /nix), theme-state.json parses + is
git-tracked, flake dirty/behind as warnings, generation age (profile
symlink mtime — store paths are epoch-1), snapper timeline when
enabled. Read-only by contract; every ✖ prints the one fixing command;
exit 1 on any problem. Ships as pkgs/nomarchy-doctor so the VM check
runs on a minimal node.
Verified: V1 package build (shellcheck-gated) + a real-hardware smoke
that correctly flagged a genuinely failed user unit on the dev box;
V2 green — checks.doctor VM test: induced failed unit flips the sheet
to exit-1 naming the unit and its fix, reset-failed returns healthy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The informative half of 'informative + rock-stable': both rebuild
wrappers capture /run/current-system before the switch and print a
package-level nvd diff after it — store-path-pinned so no PATH
dependence, || true so an ornamental diff can never fail a succeeded
rebuild, and an identical-path fast-path says 'no changes'. README §3
notes it. V1: template-system toplevel rebuilt, generated scripts
bash -n clean, nvd smoke-run against the real closure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Recovers the crashed iteration #7 (items 21+23, Latitude QA findings):
- nomarchy-waybar supervisor (waybar.nix, exec-once'd from
hyprland.nix): any waybar exit respawns the bar; crash-loop guard
(5 fast exits -> critical notify + stop); TERM trapped for a real
stop. Fixes the bar-less session after a theme-switch crash.
- nomarchy-theme-sync prefers a clean `pkill -x waybar` (supervisor
restart with fresh config+style) over the crash-prone in-place
SIGUSR2 reload when the supervisor is running; SIGUSR2 stays as the
unsupervised fallback.
- sys-rebuild: snapshot-first system rebuild against the CURRENT lock
(no `nix flake update`) — the no-update twin of sys-update;
README §3/§5 + motd list it.
Verified: V0 re-run green after crash recovery (flake check --no-build
+ py_compile); V1/V2 per the crashed session's journal entry (HM
renders exec-once=nomarchy-waybar; headless software-GL VM:
SIGKILL -> new pid, clean kill -> respawn, SIGUSR2 -> alive).
V3 pending on the Latitude (queued in HARDWARE-QUEUE.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-diagnosis of the "btrfs-assistant 2.2 segfaults on launch" bug, and
the fix is not the planned nixpkgs override:
1. gdb: the crash is btrfs_util_subvolume_iterator_next() —
libbtrfsutil's UNPRIVILEGED subvolume-iteration path in btrfs-progs
6.17.1 (upstream-fixed after 6.17.1, kdave/btrfs-progs 886571653).
Symbol versions were checked and match: not ABI/link drift.
2. VM A/B on real btrfs: as root it works (exit 0); as a user it
segfaults (139). The pkexec launcher runs it as root — so the GUI
path was fine all along, except…
3. …the distro shipped NO polkit authentication agent: every pkexec
prompt in the session failed silently. That is the actual root
cause of "the GUI doesn't open".
Shipped: hyprpolkitagent (Hyprland's Qt agent — the prompt is
Stylix-themed) via exec-once in hyprland.nix; `nomarchy-menu snapshot`
prefers btrfs-assistant-launcher again, with the nomarchy-snapshots
fzf flow kept as fallback (and for SSH); checks.snapshot-gui guards
the root path + offscreen GUI event loop on a real btrfs volume so a
lock bump can't silently regress it. No btrfs-progs patch: all our
flows are root-side; the unprivileged fix arrives with a lock bump.
Verified: V0 (flake check) + V2 (snapshot-gui check, executed green) +
V1 (HM generation builds; hyprland.conf carries the agent exec-once;
generated menu passes bash -n with the launcher wiring). Remaining V3
queued: first on-hardware themed polkit prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
modules/nixos/oom.nix — running out of memory now kills the offending
process (with a desktop notification via systembus-notify) instead of
freezing the desktop for minutes until the kernel OOM killer fires.
earlyoom over systemd-oomd, deliberately: oomd kills whole cgroups,
and a Hyprland session runs as ONE scope (nothing here spawns per-app
systemd scopes, unlike GNOME) — under pressure oomd would take out the
entire desktop to save it. earlyoom kills the single largest process
before the thrash point. nixpkgs default-enables oomd in an inert
state (no slices monitored); it is disabled outright so there is one
owner. Session plumbing is --avoid-listed (unanchored — NixOS wrappers
rename comm to .foo-wrapped); no --prefer tuning, largest-RSS
selection already finds the hog. All mkDefault; opt out with
services.earlyoom.enable = false (README note added).
Verified: V0 (flake check) + V2 — new checks.oom-protection
runNixOSTest, executed: a chunked allocator (686 MB peak, 1 GB VM) is
SIGTERM'd by earlyoom in 0.1 s, a bystander unit survives (the
process-level granularity the module exists for), and systemd-oomd is
asserted inactive. 25 s runtime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the remaining "Distro branding, round 2" work.
GRUB theme: hosts/live.nix builds nomarchyGrubTheme whose background is
the same composed splash as the isolinux/BIOS splash (accent logo on
base), with a palette-coloured boot menu and accent timeout bar. Derived
from nixos-grub2-theme only to reuse its bundled DejaVu .pf2; the stock
NixOS logo is dropped (ours is in the background). Wired as
isoImage.grubTheme so UEFI boot matches BIOS.
distroId: set system.nixos.distroId = "nomarchy" so os-release is honest
(ID=nomarchy, ID_LIKE=nixos). Safe — switch-to-configuration builds its
"is this NixOS?" guard from the configured distroId (and /etc/NIXOS is
the fallback), so rebuilds keep working. isNixos→false blanks the
nixos.org URLs, so extraOSReleaseArgs restores them to the project.
Adds checks.distro-id (runNixOSTest): boots distroId=nomarchy and runs
switch-to-configuration dry-activate green; os-release eval-verified from
the real downstream config; grub theme built + structure-verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A dedicated System → VPN flow (nomarchy-vpn) past the wifi picker:
- NetworkManager VPN/WireGuard connections shown ● active / ○ inactive,
toggled up/down on select (networkmanager-group users need no sudo).
- Import a *.conf / *.ovpn via the fd picker → nmcli connection import,
type chosen by extension. networkmanager-openvpn ships system-side
(networking.networkmanager.plugins, mkDefault) so the openvpn type is
available; WireGuard is native to NetworkManager.
- Tailscale block, self-gated on the CLI (= nomarchy.services.tailscale):
read-only status + up/down + exit-node; privileged actions go through a
sudo terminal (the snapshot pattern), no operator wiring.
Waybar custom/vpn shield (nomarchy-vpn-status): self-hides unless a NM
tunnel or Tailscale is up; @good tone; click opens the submenu. Wired
into the generated bar and both summer whole-swaps. Decided import-first;
creation deferred to nm-connection-editor. ROADMAP marked shipped.
Eval + home/system builds green; both scripts pass bash -n. Pending an
on-machine check (live nmcli import/connect + Tailscale paths).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nomarchy.system.autoTimezone (off by default): geoclue + automatic-
timezoned drive /etc/localtime from your location, so travelling to
another zone updates the Waybar clock on its own.
Menu-driven, in-flake state (the night-light / keyboard philosophy):
the flag is settings.autoTimezone in theme-state.json (git-tracked); a
System-menu entry toggles it. Because it's a SYSTEM service — not a user
unit it can start/stop instantly like night-light — the toggle
(nomarchy-autotimezone, run in a terminal) writes the flag --no-switch
then drives `sudo nixos-rebuild` (bakes the service + the time.timeZone
override) plus `home-manager switch` (the Waybar-refresh watcher); both
sides read the one flag.
- modules/nixos/timezone.nix: parses settings.autoTimezone from
nomarchy.system.stateFile (like Plymouth), gates geoclue2 +
automatic-timezoned, and mkForce-nulls time.timeZone — automatic-
timezoned sets it null at normal priority, which collides with the
installer's static value (a hard eval error), so force wins and
reverts cleanly when disabled. Ships the nomarchy-autotimezone toggle.
- modules/home/timezone.nix: a tiny user service watching timedate1's
change signal that reloads Waybar (SIGUSR2) on a real zone change, so
the clock follows live (Waybar captures the zone at construction).
Gated on the same flag via nomarchy.settings.autoTimezone.
- rofi menu: "Auto timezone (on/off)" in the System submenu.
- option + template example + ROADMAP entry; theme.nix seeds the flag.
Eval-verified on (geoclue+daemon on, tz forced null over a static
installer value, watcher present) and off (static tz intact, nothing
extra); home + system both build green. Needs an on-hardware check
(geoclue detection + the SIGUSR2 clock refresh aren't CI-testable).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two menu improvements.
Back everywhere: every list menu now ends with a "↩ Back" entry that
returns one level up — power, theme, power-profile, clipboard, files,
capture, not just Tools/System — so you no longer have to Esc out and
reopen to back up. A `back` helper + a shared `BACK` label keep it uniform;
matched exactly so it can't collide with clipboard/filename content. Esc
still quits instantly.
Snapshot fallback: btrfs-assistant 2.2 segfaults on 26.05 (libbtrfsutil
ABI), so `nomarchy-menu snapshot` now launches nomarchy-snapshots instead —
a keyboard-driven snapper browser/restore. snapper is root-only here and
rofi can't run as root under Wayland, so it runs in a terminal via sudo
(one password prompt) and uses fzf to pick: browse/diff (read-only),
restore files (undochange), or roll back (root config only), each behind a
typed-`yes` confirmation — safer than a one-click rofi rollback.
btrfs-assistant stays installed for when nixpkgs fixes it.
Verified: flake check clean; home generation builds and the menu passes
bash -n with all Back + snapshot wiring; nomarchy-snapshots passes
shellcheck (writeShellApplication) in a snapper-enabled system build.
Pending an on-machine check of the restore/rollback paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nomarchy roots are BTRFS, never ZFS, but the zfs module's `true` default for
forceImportRoot emits a warning on every eval/build ("recommended to set it
to false, the new default from 26.11"). Adopt that default early via
mkDefault — silences the noise, future-proofs for 26.11, and a real ZFS-root
downstream can still force it back on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The nixos-hardware "common-*" profiles the installer selects cover the
basics (microcode, the Intel/AMD VA-API media stack, weekly fstrim), and
power.nix adds thermald + power-profiles-daemon. This adds the gap above
them, generically and detected at install time.
New modules/nixos/hardware.nix exposes a vendor-keyed nomarchy.hardware.*
surface — broadly-beneficial bits default ON when the vendor is detected
(opt-out), heavy/experimental bits behind opt-in toggles:
- intel.enable -> GuC/HuC (i915.enable_guc=3); intel.computeRuntime
(opt-in: intel-compute-runtime + vpl-gpu-rt)
- amd.enable -> amd_pstate=active + radeonsi VA-API env; amd.rocm.enable
+ amd.rocm.gfxOverride (opt-in: ROCm HIP/OpenCL)
- fingerprint.enable -> fprintd; fingerprint.pam (opt-in: login + sudo)
- npu.enable (opt-in/experimental) -> the in-kernel driver
(amdxdna/intel_vpu) keyed by vendor; userspace runtime is BYO
hardware-db.sh now detects Intel/AMD, a fingerprint reader (libfprint USB
vendor IDs) and an NPU (Intel VPU / AMD XDNA PCI IDs), emitting NOMARCHY
lines the installer bakes into system.nix — safe defaults active, opt-ins
commented. Audited against the commons to avoid double-setting.
Verified: flake check green; a toggles-on build has amd_pstate=active +
i915.enable_guc=3 in kernel-params and ships fprintd.service; detection
runs correctly on the (AMD Ryzen-AI) dev machine. On-hardware verification
of the AMD/NPU/Intel-compute runtime bits is still pending.
Docs: template commented examples, README option table, ROADMAP status.
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>
Surface snapper snapshots from the desktop: `nomarchy-menu snapshot` (in the
SUPER+M picker, self-gated) launches btrfs-assistant, the polkit-aware
browse/diff/restore/rollback UI -- safer than a fat-fingerable rofi rollback
for a destructive root-only op. Shipped system-side gated on
nomarchy.system.snapper.
Also snapshot /home by default (hourly 5 / daily 7 / weekly 4) when it's its
own BTRFS subvolume -- the installer only set up snapper for /. A boot
oneshot creates the required /home/.snapshots subvolume if missing, so
already-installed machines get it too (no disko change).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous nomarchy-hibernate-unlock ran `pkill hyprlock` after a
hibernate resume, but killing a Wayland session-lock client without
releasing the lock trips hyprlock's "go to a tty" crash failsafe -- the
compositor keeps the screen locked for safety. So resume showed a hyprlock
error screen instead of unlocking.
Fix it the right way: never engage the lock before an encrypted hibernate
(the LUKS passphrase at resume is the gate). Replace the post-resume unlock
with a nomarchy-lock-before-sleep unit that takes over hypridle's
before_sleep_cmd: it locks on the RAM-resume sleeps (suspend / hybrid-sleep
/ suspend-then-hibernate) always, and on hibernate.target only when the disk
is unencrypted. idle.nix drops before_sleep_cmd accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The downstream flake at ~/.nomarchy is a live working tree by design —
nomarchy-theme-sync rewrites theme-state.json on every switch — so Nix's
dirty-tree warning fired on every sys-update/home-update and was just
noise. Default nix.settings.warn-dirty to false (mkDefault, overridable).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ship `services.fwupd.enable` distro-wide (mkDefault) for firmware updates
via LVFS — the daemon + metadata-refresh timer only, no automatic
flashing, so applying an update stays an explicit `fwupdmgr update`. A
no-op where LVFS sees no devices; overridable natively. Sits with the
other mkDefault desktop services rather than a nomarchy toggle (it's a
single service, like upower).
Also documents the `nomarchy.system.power.*` options in the README table
(missed when the power module landed) and adds a short note on the
fwupd default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a `nomarchy.system.power.*` surface (modules/nixos/power.nix),
replacing the bare `services.upower` (Waybar reporting only) baseline:
- power-profiles-daemon ships by default; switched through polkit (no
root prompt). TLP is the opt-in `backend = "tlp"` for deeper battery
tuning — the two are mutually exclusive (asserted).
- thermald behind `power.thermal.enable` (Intel-only).
- `power.batteryChargeLimit` (e.g. 80): a backend-independent sysfs
oneshot writes charge_control_end_threshold; gated on `power.laptop`.
Switcher + indicator live home-side and self-gate on a battery being
present + powerprofilesctl running, so they hide on desktops and under
TLP — no system->home wiring (like the Waybar battery widget):
- rofi.nix: `nomarchy-menu power-profile` module + a picker entry shown
only on laptops with PPD.
- waybar.nix: first `custom/*` module — click cycles the profile.
Installer writes `power.laptop = true` (battery probe) and
`power.thermal.enable` (GenuineIntel) into the generated system.nix, and
scaffolds the charge limit commented-out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hypridle locks hyprlock before every sleep -- right for suspend, but
redundant for hibernate: the LUKS passphrase entered at boot already gates
the resume, so the user typed a password twice. Add a nomarchy-hibernate-
unlock systemd unit (WantedBy hibernate.target, After systemd-hibernate.service
=> runs post-resume) that dismisses hyprlock, gated on the disk being LUKS-
encrypted. Suspend (and the RAM-resume phase of suspend-then-hibernate) keep
locking -- they have no passphrase gate; an unencrypted hibernate keeps its
lock too. idle.nix gains a pointer comment; roadmap item marked done.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Setting only services.xserver.xkb.layout moves the graphical session but
leaves console.useXkbConfig unset, so the virtual-console keymap -- and the
systemd initrd the LUKS passphrase prompt runs in -- fall back to US (seen
on a Latitude 5410: X11 Layout gb, VC Keymap unset, LUKS prompt US).
Default console.useXkbConfig + console.earlySetup + boot.initrd.systemd.enable
distro-wide, so xkb.layout alone reaches the console and the encrypted-disk
prompt. Moved the latter two out of plymouth.nix -- they no longer hinge on
the splash being enabled. All mkDefault: an explicit console.keyMap or a
scripted initrd still wins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two branding follow-ups, using the vendored legacy assets:
- fastfetch (modules/home/fastfetch.nix, nomarchy.fastfetch.enable): the
vector logo recolored to the palette accent and rendered to compact
block-art via chafa at build time (so it tracks the theme), fronting a
curated module list. Replaces the oversized legacy ASCII.
- Waybar logo glyph: vendor Nomarchy.ttf (modules/nixos/branding/),
install it via fonts.packages, and switch the summer-day/night menu
buttons to its U+F000 mark with `font-family: Nomarchy` pinned in CSS
(Nerd Fonts also occupy U+F000, so the pin is required). Glyph stored as
the JSON escape for robustness.
Also log a roadmap item for a quality-of-life alias collection.
Verified: font family resolves as "Nomarchy" and the ttf maps U+F000;
both summer jsonc parse; chafa logo builds headless; nix flake check passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 2 of distro branding, text half: tuigreet now shows
'Welcome to <distroName>', and users.motd carries a branded banner that
doubles as a cheat sheet for the distro helpers (sys-update, home-update,
nomarchy-theme-sync, SUPER+?). Both key off system.nixos.distroName so the
brand name stays in one place.
Deferred (need an asset / a boot test): ISO splashImage/grubTheme art and
the distroId switch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three quick known-issue fixes:
- yazi: 26.x made the fetcher `group` field required, so the git
prepend_fetchers failed to parse and yazi fell back to presets. Add
`group = "git"` to both entries (the git plugin's setup() only renders
the linemode — the fetcher still needs registering here).
- file-manager: xfce.exo and the three Thunar plugins moved to top-level;
use pkgs.xfce4-exo / pkgs.thunar-{archive-plugin,volman,media-tags-plugin}.
Clears the eval-time deprecation warnings.
- nix-ld: enable programs.nix-ld distro-wide so foreign dynamically-linked
binaries (downloaded tools, npx-fetched claude-code, language servers)
run without patchelf.
Also drops the now-stale claude-code mention from the allowUnfree comment
(the ask module uses npx). nix flake check passes; xfce warnings gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
zsh is now the default login shell (programs.zsh.enable +
users.defaultUserShell, mkOverride 500 to beat bash.nix's mkDefault;
per-user shell= still overrides). modules/home/shell.nix configures the
interactive experience (nomarchy.shell.enable):
- zsh: completion, autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, big shared
history, autocd.
- starship prompt themed from the palette (a `nomarchy` palette built
from theme-state.json colors).
- bat as cat (theme "ansi" → tracks the terminal/theme palette), eza as
ls (icons + git + dirs-first), zoxide as cd (--cmd cd).
- rg/fd shipped as themselves — deliberately NOT aliased over grep/find
(flag differences surprise).
home.shell.enableZshIntegration = true is the single lever; starship,
eza, zoxide, ghostty and yazi all emit their zsh hooks from it (no
per-module edits). Verified: flake check green, default shell resolves
to zsh, .zshrc carries the starship/zoxide/eza/yazi hooks + aliases,
starship palette renders, all tools in the live ISO closure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The media keys called wpctl/brightnessctl directly with no visual
feedback — changing volume showed nothing on screen. Now they drive
swayosd-client, which performs the action AND shows a themed OSD.
- modules/home/osd.nix: services.swayosd, style.css generated from the
palette (base bg, accent progress/border); nomarchy.osd.enable.
- hyprland media binds → swayosd-client (--output-volume raise/lower/
mute-toggle, --input-volume mute-toggle, --brightness raise/lower).
- modules/nixos: services.udev.packages = [ swayosd ] installs the
backlight rule (chgrp video + g+w) so brightness works for video-group
users without root (the installer/live user is in video).
swaync is unaffected (it was already running — this was purely the
missing OSD). Verified: flake check green, swayosd.service bound to
graphical-session.target, hyprland config verifies, swayosd in the live
ISO closure. On-screen rendering needs a real session to confirm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Legacy shipped only Thunar (and a stray nautilus extension, mid-migration).
This pairs a keyboard-driven TUI flagship that fits the distro's identity
with the GUI half for point-and-click + the "open folder" handler.
yazi (modules/home/yazi.nix, nomarchy.yazi.enable, SUPER+E, `y` shell
wrapper cd's on exit): themed from theme-state.json (mgr/mode/status
mapped from the palette; merges over yazi's defaults so it tracks the
theme) with a curated, correctly-wired plugin set —
full-border, git (setup + prepend_fetchers), smart-enter (l/Enter),
chmod (cm), mount (M), compress (caa), mediainfo (audio/subtitle only —
images/videos keep native thumbnails), glow (markdown previews).
Preview/tooling deps: ffmpegthumbnailer, poppler-utils, p7zip, jq, fd,
ripgrep, fzf, chafa, mediainfo, glow.
Thunar (modules/nixos/file-manager.nix, nomarchy.system.fileManager.enable):
GTK file manager (Stylix-themed) + archive/volman/media-tags plugins +
gvfs/tumbler/udisks2 backends + thumbnailers + exo. udisks2 also backs
yazi's mount plugin.
Verified: flake check green, HM generation builds (yazi TOML/init.lua
render, all 8 plugins resolve), every package present in the live ISO
closure (offline install draws from it — no source-build leak).
Not verified: yazi's runtime preview/plugin behaviour needs a real
session (TUI; can't drive in CI here).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Plymouth boot splash ported from the legacy branch (modules/nixos/
plymouth/): logo + eased progress + LUKS entry, background tinted from
theme-state.json via the new nomarchy.system.stateFile (wired by
mkFlake/lib.nix; null → Tokyo Night fallback). Default on; OFF on the
live ISO (boot-message visibility on the install medium). Pulls
boot.initrd.systemd, which also drives the keyboard-at-LUKS feature.
- system.nixos.distroName = "Nomarchy" (os-release PRETTY_NAME,
systemd-boot entries, ISO menu label). distroId left "nixos" (feeds
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME + upstream isNixos checks — roadmapped).
- nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree distro-wide (here + both import-nixpkgs
sites) — unblocks claude-code for the menu's ask-Claude module.
- systemd-boot.configurationLimit = 10 so entries don't fill the ESP.
- Live ISO: nomarchy.idle.enable = false — hypridle was suspending the
VM mid-install (the install-hung regression); installed systems keep it.
- flake.nix offline pins (verified 0-leak via a foreign-identity
gap-analysis probe): the repo's own standalone HM gen + inputDerivations,
mustache-go + stdenv (stylix re-renders base16 per switch), microcode-amd/
intel (enableRedistributableFirmware activated updateMicrocode →
source-build cascade), buildEnv's builder.pl, findXMLCatalogs, and the
representativeInstall mirror (xkb/initrd-systemd/microcode).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree in the system module (covers the live ISO
via useGlobalPkgs and every mkFlake machine) plus the two explicit
`import nixpkgs` sites (repo + lib.nix) so the standalone HM desktop
sees the same package set. Unblocks claude-code for the menu system's
ask-Claude module, vendor drivers, etc. Opt out with
`nixpkgs.config = lib.mkForce { allowUnfree = false; }`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Roadmap items 1+2 plus the issues found testing on a Latitude 5410:
- Ship the 10 most popular Nerd Fonts by default (iosevka swapped for
mononoki: 1.1 GB vs 27 MB) and warn from nomarchy-theme-sync when a
configured fonts.mono/fonts.ui family isn't installed (fc-match) —
fontconfig substitutes silently otherwise.
- hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware: installed systems shipped NO
firmware blobs (wifi/SOF audio/BT) — nixos-generate-config only emits
microcode lines referencing this flag, it never sets it.
- Live ISO wifi: networking.wireless.enable = mkForce false killed
NetworkManager's supplicant — since 26.05 the NM module drives its
wifi backend THROUGH networking.wireless (dbusControlled). Devices
vanished from nmtui with iwlwifi loaded and no rfkill block.
- Hyprland 0.55: launch sessions via start-hyprland (watchdog; bare
binary warns), add the new gesture keyword (workspace_swipe is gone —
touchpads had no gestures at all), media keys via wpctl/bindel/bindl
plus the missing mic/play/next/prev binds.
- Offline theme switching: pin mustache-go + stdenv + the repo's own
standalone HM generation (incl. home-files inputDerivation) into the
ISO — stylix re-renders base16 templates per switch and an offline
`apply` cascaded into building stdenv from source (1107 drvs).
Verified with tools/vm/gap-analysis.py: 17 config drvs, zero fetches.
- Stylix: track release-26.05 (kills the HM version-skew warning and
the stale home-manager follows), lock updated.
- Roadmap: swaync (no notification daemon ships today).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>