Convention: an off-by-default feature that needs nomarchy.* settings in the
downstream files should appear commented-out in templates/downstream/{home,
system}.nix, so a new install enables it by uncommenting + tweaking rather
than hunting the docs for the option name. Apply it now: night light,
nomarchy.monitors, per-device keyboard layouts (home.nix) and power
management (system.nix). Also fix the stale keyboard.layout note
(console/LUKS follow xkb automatically now). Documented in README S6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Pre-activation failure ("desktop pre-activation failed"): the in-chroot
HM build hard-coded `--option substituters ""`, which only works on
OFFLINE installs (where the ISO store is copied in). Online installs
(now common — wifi works) had no pins and built from source. Fix: build
the generation in the live env (its store always has the pins), nix copy
the closure to the target, chroot only activates. In-chroot build kept
as fallback. Uses path: (not git+file:) to sidestep libgit2 ownership.
- Read-only home.nix: templates come out of the store mode 0444 and cp
preserves it — chmod -R u+w after staging so the user can edit it.
- Keyboard + locale selection: gum prompts (localectl layouts/variants +
curated UTF-8 locale list) and NOMARCHY_LOCALE/KB_LAYOUT/KB_VARIANT for
unattended. One choice flows everywhere — services.xserver.xkb (source
of truth) + console.useXkbConfig (tty/greeter) + boot.initrd.systemd
(so the LUKS passphrase prompt uses the layout; script initrd can't) +
the generated home.nix's nomarchy.keyboard.* for the Hyprland session.
- test-install.sh: NOMARCHY_OVMF env override for sandboxed OVMF paths.
Verified end-to-end in QEMU: offline LUKS install completes, boots to a
themed desktop (no autogenerated-config banner), Plymouth renders the LUKS
prompt on the theme-tinted background.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Installed machines and the downstream template now resolve nomarchy from
git+https://git.bemagri.xyz/bernardo/nomarchy.git?ref=v1 (the lock's
original node carries the ref too), so `nix flake update` follows the
release branch instead of the forge's default branch. README quickstart
points at the real forge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Downstream users now own only system.nix and home.nix; their flake.nix is
generated once from the template and never hand-edited. mkFlake (lib.nix)
wires both layers and maps hardwareProfile = "<name>" to nixos-hardware
modules (new input, pinned here, nixpkgs follows ours; unknown names fail
with did-you-mean suggestions). Flake checks evaluate the template through
mkFlake — including a real profile — so drift fails `nix flake check`.
Also from the live-VM testing session: install the home-manager CLI in the
live ISO and pin flake inputs transitively (offline theme switching needs
stylix's own inputs too), plus swww→awww doc updates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full replacement of the previous iteration, rebuilt around three ideas:
- Pure evaluation: theme-state.json lives inside the flake and is read
via the nomarchy.stateFile option — no --impure, ever.
- All-Home-Manager theming: `nomarchy-theme-sync apply` writes the JSON
and runs `home-manager switch`; every theme change is one atomic,
rollbackable generation. Wallpaper (swww) is the sole runtime piece.
- Flat, downstream-first layout: modules/{nixos,home} with one
options.nix each, exported as nixosModules/homeModules + overlay +
flake template; system (nixos-rebuild) and desktop (home-manager
switch) rebuild paths are fully split.
Ships 21 themes imported from the previous iteration (palettes,
wallpapers, btop themes, six whole-swap Waybar identities), Stylix for
the GTK/Qt/cursor long tail, a live ISO target with offline theme
switching, and docs/TESTING.md with the QEMU verification workflow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
