Nixos and Hyprland - Best Match Ever

[@gbember3470]

Cool video and cool project! Btw, is the info correct on 2:38? Both packages are dunst

[@vimjoyer]

NOOOOOO! I'm sorry, I'll try to fix that with youtube's editor, thanks!

[@gbember3470]

@@vimjoyer Don't worry, thank you!

[@vimjoyer]

@@gbember3470 Nevermind, there is no option to add text or image, so I'll just pin your comment

[@TheSast]

​@@vimjoyeryou can add a fixed version in the desc

[@vimjoyer]

@@TheSast oh yes, right, thanks!

[@garzonjav]

When it comes to NixOS, you are my "numero uno" source. The details and the order in which you present them is why a value your content. Please, any more advance video with Hyprland are welcome, specially around configuring the waybar (or any other bar). Another hyprland video could be using EWW instead of the bar. That is one that I have not seen in KZbin. The content of this video, it took me approximately 10 days (and 5-7 sources) to learn everything that you put together in this comprehendible video. Please keep making NixOs and Hyprland videos.

[@vimjoyer]

Planning to make Discord server when we hit 1000 subscribers. What else do you want to see on the channel (more Nix videos are coming anyway)?.

[@gbember3470]

I would love to see a video about nix's command line tools

[@vimjoyer]

@@gbember3470 great! I was thinking about it yesterday.

[@unknown-otter]

What about Matrix instead of Discord?

[@vimjoyer]

​@@unknown-otter I think discord is more accessible, but maybe I'll make matrix and setup a bridge

[@TheSast]

Maybe how to set up a dev env in NixOS for all the following languages: C C++ Rust Go

[@rujn]

❤ your format: informative, succinct, and example driven. As a long time Arch user bleeding edge excites me and as a father, time is hard to come by. Deeply appreciate your work here paraphrasing dispersed docs and making this approachable. Keep it up

[@baxlash81]

These videos are really good stuff. When it comes to NixOS and Hyprland, I rely on them very much. Everything is explained in details. Any more videos are most welcome.

[@Xaito]

this is great content. I've been interested in Nix OS for a while now but just couldn't bring myself to take the plunge. After watching this I might actually finally make an attempt.

[@adamjung9950]

I just found your channel this one of the best ones great stuff and best thumbnails ever🤣

[@Bvngee]

My god, you're a life saver! I would _love_ to see a video on how to get started configuring hyprland with home manager specifically, or how you have that setup yourself. What immaculate timing!

[@tiagoprnl]

Congratulations on this video and all others on this channel, all straight to the point and well explained. Each time I see a new video here I hurry to see it. Amazing work dude!

[@stratfordwill]

Thank you for these NixOS videos. They have been very helpful as I experiment and learn with NixOS and Hyprland.

[@TheSast]

On God, you are definetly using clairvoyance to read my mind and posto videks about stuff before I can even suggest it.

[@Flashback_Jack]

This is the most comprehensive video I've seen yet of a good set of packages for Nix. Great job, man.

[@computing4699]

Excellent video! An advanced one would be very nice too (not only for hyprland, but also for waybar)! Subscribed!

[@computing4699]

I meant "but also for waybar", and wrote "hyprland" twice. Hahaha

[@MiaLovesRod]

Dang, you're my main for search things about nixOS or nix, you explain so nice lmaoooo owo

[@BartekBroniszewski]

You are killing it man, another great video, thanks a lot

[@kenrtx]

Waybar configuration video would definitely be awesome.

[@orebi1914]

I have been following your videos. Awesome!! video no exception! Please, make more videos about setting up Hyprland. Like How to set up GTK themes. And so on! Thank you in advance!

[@splits8999]

yoo i just finally installed nix today as a dualboot and followed this, everything worked perfect and i had to do little to no troubleshooting so thanks !

[@D.a.n_D]

this is a great video format. i would love to see this with other tools and programs. I love how you cover the possibilities each user can experience, which is really hard on a written format, because most sites tell you how to do it, and if you have an issue, you need to find a specific page or site for that issue, which takes a lot of time. keep up the good work!

[@intermarer9145]

A few things were outdated by now, but self-explanatory to fix - great video! Thanks! But jeeeeeeez, I hope someone makes a Hyprland bundle. To me this feels like one step away from linux-from-scratch 😅

[@bonsohazard]

Thank you for the amazing videos, greatly appreciated!

[@averagetechnologyenojyer]

The way you explain is amazing

[@MD.TaufikKhan-g3c]

Please create an advanced tutorial

[@Ricardoromero4444]

A hyprland video not in 60fps doesn't do the experience justice

[@vimjoyer]

And even a 60fps video is nothing compared to how great these animations look on a 165hz screen.

[@5133937]

Great timing, was just looking into switching from Gnome to Hyprland or Sway on NixOS. I would love to a followup video on advanced Hyprland config.

[@_modiX]

I think there are quite a few good advanced videos on how to configure hyprland, please focus on NixOS, there are little to none good deep tutorials and you are exceptionally good in this. I just wondered why you didn't mention the home manager for the hyprland configuration, maybe you wanted to keep things simple. I have to admit, the whole legacy to flake migration puts me off a little, so it would be outstanding to me if you could explain transitions from configuration.nix to flake, especially since there are quite a few guides on the internet that show the old legacy way of doing things.

[@mattlau04]

Really nice video, was a huge help when setting up hyprland!

[@CodeMonkeX]

Nice video. I would personally love to have a more detailed config video. After following this video I got to the same spot, where Hyprland is working and Waybar is running. But the workspace indicators do not work at all. It's just blank. I have been trying to patch it in my nix config, messing around with settings and it never shows up. So knowing how to get the workspace indicators, maybe lock screen, power management (sleep and screen blank), basically a series of tutorials on getting a Hyperland config to work like a DE would be great.

[@BradleyADavis]

+1

[@orebi1914]

I love your videos. Awesome videos. I would like to see an advance Hyprland configuration video and an advance waybar video too. Thank you in advance!

[@justaguyalive6762]

wow you just keep reading my mind

[@justaguyalive6762]

One thing to add, you can add font-awesome in packages for waybar to show icons instead of squares

[@vimjoyer]

@@justaguyalive6762 this ^

[@SuchANoobOG]

@@justaguyalive6762thank you 😊

[@BradleyADavis]

Awesome video and channel! Hope to see more videos!

[@matthewboyea3860]

6:09 I would love to see your take on an advanced Waybar configuration video!

[@yorkmolko]

Приятный и какой-то родной акцент...

[@Aethrexal]

This video would have been very useful for me yesterday 😆Struggled for a while to find the fix for waybar to show the workspaces. Would be nice to see a more advanced video for Hyprland and Waybar config!

[@CodeMonkeX]

How did you end up getting workspaces working? I followed this video and I never did get the indicators to show in Waybar.

[@Aethrexal]

@@CodeMonkeX He didn't show it in the video. But you're gonna have to copy or add the waybar config to your .config folder, then in the config you're gonna want to replace "sway/workspaces" with "wlr/workspaces". Then it should work, as long as you added that override he showed.

[@orebi1914]

Love your video series of NIXOS. Love the way you instruct. Can you make a detail video about Hyprland, flake and home-manager. And share your configurations files. Thank you in advance!

[@vimjoyer]

There are already videos about those on the channel, just combine the config from the ones you like. I plan on making a giant video covering all of this in the future, but not any time soon.

[@paimon7546]

What a great video. Also, can you make a advanced video for Hyprland?

[@ferchizzle]

This is the best guide to run Hyprland on NixOS. It's been immensely helpful. Thank you so much for doing this! Are you up for doing an intense #unixporn Hyprland ricing video?

[@vimjoyer]

we'll see

[@GloomDev]

Nice visuals. I'll give this a shot soon.

[@GloomDev]

A year later but I'm finally using Hyprland + NixOS

[@ricardoribeiroprudencio7871]

Great video, could you make a video on how to config Hyprland via home manager? I tried to do that but it is kinda confusing and the documentation is pretty bad regarding it.

[@alexandermartens192]

Amazing video. I would love to see all configurations videos on hyprland and eww and waybar

[@kevinmadison2088]

With your neovim video as well as this one, you're using the .config files to manage your configuration. Is this the best way to do this or is there a more NixOS native way of handling these things? I had trouble getting Mason working with neovim in nixos for example because the package management conflicts with nix somehow. Awesome videos btw! Thank you so much.

[@vimjoyer]

I highly recommend you to use devshells rather than Mason on NixOS. Just put JavaScript LSP into JavaScript devshell and python LSP into python devshell. Everything separated, clean and efficient. Some LSPs from Mason work, but they usually require you to have npm, gcc and some other dependencies installed

[@nathanaelpriambodo8563]

Hi, great video!, Can you make tutorial how to install and run flutter ? I'm kinda confused about the documentation 😅

[@affieuk]

Really enjoying your videos and clear style. Please do make those advanced videos, if you can add in things like volume and brightness controls that would be awesome. I actually got volume buttons working and was about to start on the brightness buttons, which incidentally I can change with the mouse over waybar, but I have no idea what executable waybar is using to control brightness. Unfortunately my XPS looks like it's bit the bullet...

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

its there somewhere in the waybar config file.

[@tristanboyle4450]

im glad i turned off an addBlocker as i would never have seen this otherwise.. excellent.

[@Kartoflaszman]

great content, keep it up! I think there is an error at 2:29, there should be something else than `dunst` in the second option

[@vimjoyer]

Yes, sorry "mako" should be there

[@JohnSmith-ky2qn]

@@vimjoyer you also don't have to add libnotify, nix can figure this out

[@vimjoyer]

@@JohnSmith-ky2qn I've tested this out on a bare virtual machine, and it didn't want to work until I added libnotify. If I'm wrong, that's even better!

[@pabloqp7929]

Both a waybar and eww video seem great to me 🎉🎉

[@5fr4ewq]

hyprland is great, what i like abt it even more is community

[@beginnenmetinux]

Great video!

[@fuzzy-02]

My laptop has no GPU, uses integrated intel graphics of the i3 cpu. I am asking a most likely dumb question but this means it is not an Nvidia system right? Or there are some other semantics than having an Nvidia gpu?

[@vimjoyer]

You don't need any extra setup then 👍

[@MiaLovesRod]

Btw, you should check or edit the enabling hyprland part in your description, there's two times enable = true on hyprland configuration.

[@vimjoyer]

Thanks, edited

[@max_ishere]

I really hope this will be the last time ill do heavy configuration. Only maintenance afterwards.

[@godnyx117]

Other than the cool animations, does Hyprland have anything else worth noting compared to other window managers?

[@vimjoyer]

It's based on wayland, has a very nice hyprctl & UNIX socket to extend it. And it can also expose global keybindings to applications, because they usually can't just grab them themselves on other wayland compositors.

[@godnyx117]

@@vimjoyer Thank you for the information! Sounds interesting! I may check it out in the future. Have a nice day my friend!

[@kayh_online]

For anyone else searching for what "slupr" is at 6:15, its supposed to be "slurp" lol

[@avrenos]

Great video, but can you make a full Hyprland setup in NixOS from scratch so beginners can follow it? I asked this maybe a few months back in your channel.

[@vimjoyer]

Yes, I still remember

[@Jdizzle111]

Advanced waybar configuration would be awesome!!

[@kqvanity]

Nvidia patches are no longer needed : )

[@Ateshtesh]

Well, Im more emacs than vim, but I like your videos! suscribed!

[@sodiboo]

4:37 That arrow points to the wrong line. It's line 6 above the cursor, not 3.

[@cheikdiabate]

Your font is pretty cool, which one did you install ?

[@vimjoyer]

JetBrainsMono

[@roddy2143]

Where do i add the xdg.portal line in the config file... does it come under any of the other functions ? Really nice video btw ❤

[@vimjoyer]

In your nixOS configuration file. See mynixos.com/nixpkgs/option/xdg.portal.enable

[@relaxdmj8769]

Thanks for this very useful video to learn Nixos and Hyprland. I am trying to configure my Waybar but can't find the 'config' and 'style.css' files. Do you know where they are located in Nixos? Thank you.

[@vimjoyer]

You can create them yourself in the same place as on any other distro. Hyprland generates it's config automatically, but waybar doesn't iirc.

[@relaxdmj8769]

@@vimjoyer It works, thanks!!

[@smuecke]

Which font are you using for your on-screen code snippets?

[@vimjoyer]

JetBrains Mono

[@braaitongs]

Do you still need the Xserver if you use wayland? I thought it replaces it? Do you not need to switch it off?

[@vimjoyer]

Popular display managers like sddm or gdm unfortunately still rely on xorg. You can disable xorg, but you will have to start hyprland from tty. Edit: display managers not servers

[@Joris-KarlHuysmans]

This comment saved my install. Thanks @vimjoyer

[@JudeDominicEstrellado]

thank you for your video. just starting with NixOS and this is a great guide for me to setup hyprland and waybar. maybe you can guide me how to customize the waybar in nixos? :)

[@vimjoyer]

Customizing waybar with home-manager is very easy, so that guide would probably be a 30 seconds video. I might combine both waybar's and hyprland's home-manager configs in one video.

[@erichanson5628]

WoW! Many Thanks!

[@cenunix]

Why not use the hyprland xdg portal? Also, some other useful packages are grimblast, wl-clipboard, and wf-recorder :)

[@vimjoyer]

I tried hyprland xdg portal, it didn't work for me. All of those packages are pretty useful indeed!

[@ppen9u1n]

@@vimjoyer In the hyprland repo there's a flake which appears to do some dependency stuff that's probably not covered by the nixos programs.hyprland module. Two of those are waybar and the desktop portal, but the dep for wlroots may also be different. Depending on the status of current nixpkgs using the standard nixos module may lead to lack of features and/or compatibility issues. I'm using upstream as a flake input, which is more cutting edge and better integrated with its specific dependencies, at the cost of a bit more complexity. It is generally smooth, though YMMV.

[@aeases-]

2 Questions; Apparently you can't run any binaries not from the nix repos on nixos? (or just not installed through nix in general) is there any way to run stuff like compiled but not installed apps / appimages? is there an easy way to install dev packages e.g. sudo apt install build-essential or do i have to add each individaully to the nix file

[@vimjoyer]

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/522822/different-methods-to-run-a-non-nixos-executable-on-nixos - here is a huge list of methods to run a non-nixos executable on Nixos. I might make a video version of this later. Yes, you can use other package managers on nixos. edit: added some more text.

[@aeases-]

@@vimjoyer wut about dev packages too, is there just a list i chuck into the nix file to get everything build essentail or base-devel would normally give or is there groups of packages or something else entirely? also when you say other package manages do you mean actual managers like apt / pacman / dnf (seems against reproducability? unless it's distrobox i guess) or is it adding other nix repos

[@vimjoyer]

@@aeases- usually, you can find all of the essential packages for specific language on NixOS wiki. nixos.wiki/wiki/Node.js - JavaScript. If you can't find some node packages in nixpkgs, you will, unfortunately, have to package them yourself of install with npm. Edit: you shouldn't install other package managers packages as root.

[@nahueljj]

amazing thx

[@countermeasuresecurityengi9719]

i use barrier to run multiple pc (share keyboard, mouse) and weyland isn’t supported by barrier😢 any solution - workaround ideas? weyland is the future

[@vimjoyer]

I haven't seen any

[@ppen9u1n]

indeed barrier is pretty much the only thing on wayland that I have found zero replacement for. Let's keep an eye open, I'd be very interested too.

[@e-cal]

albert is the goat launcher sorry rofi

[@vimjoyer]

it is

[@artinwebwetrust8551]

I've got AMD Vega64 videocard. What should I do in config? Strings with text "nvidia" - i should delete? Thanks!

[@vimjoyer]

Yes

[@anonlegion9096]

hey my friend, do you by any chance have a remote repo of your configuration.nix I can study?

[@vimjoyer]

Yes, I have a repo called nixconf on my github page

[@ShinysArc]

How did you change the icon of the nm-applet?

[@vimjoyer]

I have a different icon theme, and it affects it. You can check how I installed it in the latest video.

[@nerdg2]

wow!

[@YouBetterCat]

can u mnake an advanced custom video ?

[@notrlt]

1:00 ig hyprland isn't wlroots-based anymore, so... does it work now?

[@sharperguy]

is there a standard environment variable or nix conf option that people are using to configure scripts that make use of dmenu to use an alternative like rofi, depending on how you set it?

[@vimjoyer]

You can implement it yourself. Crete a module with such option of type string, and then just interpolate it into your scripts.

[@CryptixMC]

at 4:39 you point at the monitor config, but you should be erasing the autogenerated = 1 line

[@caioalves6712]

Hello, can you tell me why, when I open a window through rofi, it doesn't open fullscreen like when I open the terminal through the hyprland bind? And I can't find where I can tweak the rofi.config Thx

[@vimjoyer]

Very strange, I've never had this issue. You can tweak rofi's config the same way you do on any other distro, or using home-manager.

[@orebi1914]

Hello! Again. Quick question. Can you make a video showing how to set up a gtk theme in Nixos using Hyprland? Thank You in advance!

[@vimjoyer]

I'll probably make a general theming video later. Gtk, qt, sddm theme and all Edit: on nixos, of course

[@fredwilson1191]

What about using a AMD graphics card, which I'm using ?

[@vimjoyer]

Works out of the box (Nvidia option is also not needed anymore)

[@LoonixTV]

Just wondering if i have to do anything else after adding hyprland to my config

[@oglothenerd]

I would make a Discord server now! I made one at 500 subs, and it blew up! Also, great video! I would love if you made a video about the envfs option that makes /bin/bash work on NixOS. Also, if you know how to fix FHS compliancy, that would let me switch back to NixOS!

[@vimjoyer]

Not being compliant with FHS is one of it's features, because you can make a FHS environment in a derivation for a specific package, and it is actually how most proprietary packages in nixpkgs work. You can even make a super simple nix-shell that would put you in one if you want, so it's not an issue at all. I will probably make a video about cool features like envfs option. And I've made a discord server already, you can find it here: discord.gg/AqHbaeK43b.

[@oglothenerd]

@@vimjoyer Awesome! Thank you! Hey, I have more subs than you, so I will add you to my KZbinr shoutout list!

[@vimjoyer]

@@oglothenerd are you sure?

[@oglothenerd]

@@vimjoyer Yeah.

[@oglothenerd]

@@vimjoyer Yeah.

[@blubbafett]

You wouldn't mind sharing a full configuration.nix (and other relevant files, e.g on your git) file for this so one can compare ones own with a "working" one?

[@vimjoyer]

I don't want to share my configuration just yet, but if you want a good working example, I recommend checking out Misterio77's configs.

[@playdead9779]

You sir get a subscribe from me. Video has been extremely helpful. I was very hesistant to switch to a WM for a very long time. Now I'm not.

[@unLinuxeroMas]

can you make a top about the best hyperland configs?

[@vimjoyer]

I don't think that's in the spirit of a channel. I mostly do tutorials

[@unLinuxeroMas]

oh i see thanks for answering@@vimjoyer

[@abyss_ae]

Bro can you do a favor and keep the good job. ur going well with contents, don't stop!

[@vimjoyer]

I'm not going to stop 😎

[@lel7531]

Full ricing video when ?

[@lel7531]

Please a video on advanced hyprland config and I can't wait for the discord server !

[@jerryaugusto95]

Where can I find your wallpaper?

[@vimjoyer]

Here: github.com/vimjoyer/nixconf/blob/main/homeManagerModules/features/prism/wallpapers/gruvbox-mountain-village.png

[@KurtosisJones]

Hello, how do you add the waybar override to your configuration.nix? When I add that section to environment.systemPackages I get a build error "error: syntax error, unexpected '('".

[@vimjoyer]

It should work if you just put that into packages, are you sure you don't have any extra "("?

[@maykeldebian]

Hi, what font are used in terminal?

[@vimjoyer]

JetBrainsMono

[@fdimb]

Do you still run this setup?

[@vimjoyer]

Yes

[@fdimb]

@@vimjoyer Looks nice! I'm leaning towards a setup like this for a daily driver, maybe with arch instead of NixOs just to avoid the mental overhead of learning too many new things at once. One thing I couldn't find on my hyprland VM was for a way to set up named tabbed groups (similar to Sway or Cosmic window stacks), I'll try to find something.

[@HaySidney]

How do you fix the fonts (font-awesome icons) in waybar? ;-;

[@teksaucee]

i would be on hyprland if i didn't have a nvidia card , i experienced crashes on wayland

[@gaborkrisko]

What theme are you using?

[@vimjoyer]

gruvbox

[@TheToric]

Can you configure it with home-manager?

[@vimjoyer]

Yeah, hyprland options were added recently, and I've already made a video about it

[@lucascoble]

I'd love to see an EWW video since I'm wanting to get into that

[@ste1ee]

Hey I love the video but I cant figure out how to configure waybar. I just cant find the configuration file for it

[@vimjoyer]

Follow waybars documentation, or check someone elses config from reddit.

[@ste1ee]

@@vimjoyer ty vm

[@tumescent]

FYI, `sound.enable` is explicitly for enabling ALSA sound so using it with pipewire as you do at 3:03 is at best redundant and at worst could break something. Great video otherwise

[@vimjoyer]

That's how default generated configuration.nix does it. I'm not inventing anything.