Can someone check me on this zide install?

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Trying to run zide from a Hyprland keybind.

I’ve added the following to Home Manager (home.nix):

    home.file = {
      ".config/zide".source = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner = "josephschmitt";
        repo = "zide";
        rev = "a0903f9a503f2261e768aa7c23628921c027a88e";
        hash = "sha256-Ten0Jme1wVDsUhRY/ggPY1fKwYRw0FiQWSQqVij3nHI=";
      };
    };

  programs.bash = {
    bashrcExtra = ''
      export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/zide/bin"
    '';
  };

Now I’m able to run it from terminal with:
alacritty -e zide ~/.config/nixos default_lazygit

But when I try adding a keybind to my hyprland config, nothing works. I’ve tried:

"$mainMod, T, exec, alacritty -e zide ~/.config/nixos default_lazygit"
"$mainMod, T, exec, alacritty -e zide '~/.config/nixos default_lazygit'"
"$mainMod, T, exec, alacritty -e \"zide ~/.config/nixos default_lazygit\""

Any suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong?

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Because the path is not in the environment of hyperland. You could add the full path to the binary in your hyperland config.

The other way would be to create a package for that binary and use lib.getExe in your hyprland config. I think that would be more ‘the nix way’.

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I added the following to my hyprland config:

      env = [
        "PATH,$HOME/.config/zide/bin:$PATH"
      ]

And set the keybind to:

"$mainMod, T, exec, alacritty -e zide ~/.config/nixos default_lazygit"

But it unfortunately still doesn’t work.

4

Nevermind. That works! I forgot the key component - log out and log back in again. :sweat_smile:

Thank you for the help.

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