A rebuild against an unchanged lock installs nothing new, so a machine
built daily can still run months-old packages. A user timer reads the
locked lastModified of the nixpkgs input and notifies once it passes
seven days, offering a terminal that runs the update.
nixpkgs carries stasis 1.5.1, so the pinned input and pkgs/stasis.nix go. It
ships no unit and has no NixOS module, so modules/services.nix keeps declaring
one; its actions run as `sh -lc` and it spawns niri and pactl directly, hence
the unit path.
stasis prefers a user config over /etc and generates its own when none exists,
so moonarch's is seeded into the home directory instead of only reaching /etc.
Gaps against moonarch/packages/official.txt: zip, unzip and viewnior were
missing outright, and thunar-archive-plugin was installed without
xarchiver, which left its menu entries inert.
services.auto-cpufreq is the backend of the Quickshell CpuGov widget,
which calls 'auto-cpufreq --get-state' and 'pkexec auto-cpufreq --force';
without it the indicator has no state and the popout cannot switch.
Steam prints "pactl: command not found" and it means nothing: it probes
wpctl and pactl both and uses whichever is on PATH, which wireplumber
provides. Closed as expected behaviour in nixpkgs#525793.
The RNNoise config was deployed to /etc/xdg/pipewire, which PipeWire
never reads: it resolves $PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_DIR, then the home config, then
its compiled-in /etc/pipewire, and knows nothing of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. An
installed system therefore had no denoising while carrying the file.
It now goes through services.pipewire.configPackages, with the LADSPA
plugin substituted to its store path since LADSPA_PATH has no /usr here.
Alongside, on the desktop host only: steam via its module (which also
turns on 32-bit graphics), bitwig-studio, and rtkit so a DAW can ask for
realtime scheduling at all.
The package set provided no browser at all. Waterfox, which Arch runs,
is not in nixpkgs; packaging its upstream tarball worked but leaves
version and hash to be bumped by hand, with nothing signalling a missed
release — poor terms for the most exposed program on the machine.
librewolf comes from nixpkgs, so its updates arrive with the flake, and
it is fully substitutable. Its defaults are stricter than Waterfox's.
networking.networkmanager.plugins defaulted to an empty list, so
NetworkManager offered no OpenVPN connection type at all.
Printing is driverless: asked over IPP the Samsung M267x 287x reports
image/urf and application/PCLm, so CUPS builds the queue from the
printer's own capabilities. No PPD, no unfree driver, and no printer
declared here. Avahi provides the discovery and resolves .local.
VLC instead of the mpv the Arch lists carry.
zsh/newuser runs zsh-newuser-install on every interactive login while the
user has none of .zshenv, .zprofile, .zshrc or .zlogin. The whole
configuration lives in /etc/zshrc, which is not a personal file, so the
wizard never stopped coming up.
The seeded file carries comments only: sourcing the shared zshrc from it,
as the Arch counterpart does, would load it a second time.
/etc/zshrc renders promptInit and environment.shellAliases after
interactiveShellInit, so both overrode the shared zshrc: the prompt
became `prompt suse` and ls/ll/l fell back to coreutils. The plugin
sourcing in the zshrc points at the Arch path /usr/share/zsh/plugins
and silently found nothing.
Clear promptInit, drop the three aliases with null, and enable the
syntax-highlighting and autosuggestions modules.
Both were missing against the Arch package set: thunar with volman and the
archive plugin, tumbler and ffmpegthumbnailer (packages/official.txt:79-83),
and defaults/shell/zshrc, which Arch installs as /etc/zsh/zshrc.moonarch.
Verified against nix eval, upstream sources and a local test:
- testvm accepts SSH password authentication (NixOS default), the README
claimed the opposite
- only /boot goes through by-partlabel; the filesystems inside the container
come up as /dev/mapper/crypted
- kanshi parses an empty config fine; a missing one is the error case, in the
README and in the desktop module comment
- modules/user.nix ABOUTME claimed a login name shared by every host
- the flake imports six modules, not five
Rewrites "Keeping a machine up to date": the checkout is ~/flakes/moonix and
/etc/nixos/flake.nix a symlink to it, which man 8 nixos-rebuild documents.
Drops the git and ssh-keygen basics. Adds an optional LUKS header backup step,
and records the checkout decision in DECISIONS.md.
The config source is defaults/etc/swaylock/config now. The tmpfiles seed
stays: nixpkgs leaves meson's sysconfdir at $out/etc, so the
/etc/swaylock/config that Arch owns is never read here.
The power menu is a Quickshell popout in the moonarch config now, and it
was the last caller of moonlock. Inputs, package entries and both build
recipes are gone, together with the generated /etc configs and the
moonlock PAM stack — swaylock's comes from programs.niri.enable.
greetd.nix configures services.displayManager.regreet and keeps niri as
the greeter compositor, so niri-greeter.kdl stays the shared file that
carries the German keyboard layout. The moongreet input, its package and
pkgs/moongreet.nix are gone.
extraCss goes through builtins.readFile: the module only recognises a
direct /nix/store child as a path, so passing the file path as a string
wrote the path itself into /etc/greetd/regreet.css.
desktop.nix installs swaylock, seeds ~/.config/swaylock/config with the
wallpaper rewritten to the store path, and now owns the moonlock PAM
stack. The Colloid overrides moved to flake.nix so the greeter and the
desktop share one derivation.
initial_session is set per host because the accounts differ. greetd's
restart option flips itself off, verified.
flake.lock still pins moonarch at the pushed revision; it needs
`nix flake update moonarch` once the moonarch commit is pushed.
cpugov, sink-switcher and nightlight were referenced solely by the waybar
config; the Quickshell popouts cover all three. btnote, capsnote, vpn and
waybar-hidpp are unreferenced anywhere.
Adds the two system units for battery threshold restore and camera
shutoff, which had been missed.
waypaper reads only ~/.config/waypaper/config.ini and has no system-wide
fallback, so it wrote its own default with an empty wallpaper entry and
nothing was ever set. systemd.user.tmpfiles 'C' copies the file once
without overwriting later user edits.
defaults/xdg/kanshi/config is a 0-byte placeholder, unused on Arch as
well, where kanshi reads ~/.config/kanshi/config instead. Deploying it
made kanshi fail to parse and restart in a loop. The unit now starts only
when a user config exists.
Both are marked 'kept as a reserve' in the Arch config, a note left over
from the migration to the Quickshell bar. A fresh setup has no reason to
carry them, so the packages, their configs and the waybar-only helper
scripts stay out.
localConf is written to /etc/fonts/local.conf verbatim. Without the XML
declaration and the fontconfig root element, fontconfig rejects the file
with 'junk after document element' and the generic-family defaults never
take effect.
- NIRI_CONFIG points niri at /etc/xdg; without it niri writes its own
default config, so none of the Moonarch settings applied.
- config.kdl spawns the polkit agent by FHS path, provided via tmpfiles
instead of diverging the config shared with Arch.
- waypaper was missing entirely, hence no wallpaper. It invokes swww,
which the maintained awww provides under a different name.
/etc/fonts/conf.d is owned by the NixOS fontconfig module and rejects
environment.etc entries. Same content as
defaults/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-moonarch-fonts.conf.
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