Users

Users are a special case of profiles that define system users and home-manager configurations. For your convenience, home manager is wired in by default so all you have to worry about is declaring your users. For a fully fleshed out example, check out the developers personal branch.

Basic Usage

users/myuser/default.nix:

{ ... }:
{
  users.users.myuser = {
    isNormalUser = true;
  };

  home-manager.users.myuser = {
    programs.mpv.enable = true;
  };
}

Home Manager

Home Manager support follows the same principles as regular nixos configurations. All modules defined in user modules will be imported to Home Manager. All profiles are availabe in suites as userProfiles. The userSuites output will be available in your Home Manager Configuration as the special argument, suites.

External Usage

You can easily use the defined home-manager configurations outside of NixOS using the homeConfigurations flake output. The flk helper script makes this even easier.

This is great for keeping your environment consistent across Unix systems, including OSX.

From within the projects devshell:

# builds the nixos user defined in the NixOS host
flk home NixOS nixos

# build and activate
flk home NixOS nixos switch

Manually from outside the project:

# build
nix build "github:divnix/devos#homeConfigurations.nixos@NixOS.home.activationPackage"

# activate
./result/activate && unlink result

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