So, for some background, I’m new to Nix and NixOS and made a VM to get to know the system. After a few VMs (the final one being configured how I wanted and working) I made a slightly customized configuration.nix and installed the system on bare metal.
My user is perfectly fine, but the second user has an issue that I’m not entirely sure how to describe. Gnome extensions that i installed in configuration.nix are installed, but won’t enable (similar to this post) and apps that have a window to welcome the user, like Gnomes “take a tour” and nix-software-center’s pop up asking if all configs are in the default places or not just keep appearing as if every time I open them is the first time. I tried running su, chown brian ./ and chmod +w in his home directory thinking that maybe he just didn’t have permission for some reason, but that did nothing. This seems to only be GUI apps. When I launched the terminal, ZSH gave me it’s init script only once.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Here is my configuration.nix just in case there’s anything in there that will help:
`# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
{ config, pkgs, lib, … }:
let
nix-software-center = import (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
owner = “vlinkz”;
repo = “nix-software-center”;
rev = “0.1.2”;
sha256 = “xiqF1mP8wFubdsAQ1BmfjzCgOD3YZf7EGWl9i69FTls=”;
}) {};
in
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];
Enable Experimental Features
nix.settings.experimental-features = [ “nix-command” “flakes” ];
Bootloader.
boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
networking.hostName = “mainframe”; # Define your hostname.
networking.wireless.enable = true; # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
Configure network proxy if necessary
networking.proxy.default = “http://user:password@proxy:port/”;
networking.proxy.noProxy = “127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain”;
Enable networking
networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = “America/New_York”;
Select internationalisation properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = “en_US.UTF-8”;
i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
LC_ADDRESS = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_IDENTIFICATION = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_MEASUREMENT = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_MONETARY = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_NAME = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_NUMERIC = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_PAPER = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_TELEPHONE = “en_US.UTF-8”;
LC_TIME = “en_US.UTF-8”;
};
Enable the X11 windowing system.
services.xserver.enable = true;
Enable the GNOME Desktop Environment.
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
Configure keymap in X11
services.xserver = {
layout = “us”;
xkbVariant = “alt-intl”;
};
Configure console keymap
console.keyMap = “dvorak”;
Enable CUPS to print documents.
services.printing.enable = true;
Enable sound with pipewire.
sound.enable = true;
hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services.pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
# If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
#jack.enable = true;
# use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
# no need to redefine it in your config for now)
#media-session.enable = true;
};
Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;
#Enable Zsh
programs.zsh.enable = true;
#Distrobox
virtualisation.docker.enable = true;
Define a user account. Don’t forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users.joshua = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = “Joshua”;
extraGroups = [ “networkmanager” “wheel” “docker” ];
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
“”
];
packages = with pkgs; [
];
shell = pkgs.zsh;
};
users.users.brian = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = “Brian”;
extraGroups = [ “networkmanager” ];
packages = with pkgs; [
];
shell = pkgs.zsh;
};
Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
$ nix search wget
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
nix-software-center
neofetch
zsh
crystal
ruby
jdk17
whitesur-gtk-theme
whitesur-icon-theme
apple-cursor
gnome.gnome-tweaks
gnomeExtensions.dash-to-dock
gnomeExtensions.custom-hot-corners-extended
gnomeExtensions.blur-my-shell
gnomeExtensions.hide-activities-button
gnomeExtensions.remove-app-menu
gnome.gnome-screenshot
distrobox
docker
];
Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
started in user sessions.
programs.mtr.enable = true;
programs.gnupg.agent = {
enable = true;
enableSSHSupport = true;
};
List services that you want to enable:
Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
services.openssh = {
enable = true;
# require public key authentication for better security
settings.PasswordAuthentication = false;
settings.KbdInteractiveAuthentication = false;
};
Open ports in the firewall.
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ … ];
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ … ];
Or disable the firewall altogether.
networking.firewall.enable = false;
This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
(e.g. man configuration.nix or on NixOS Search).
system.stateVersion = “23.05”; # Did you read the comment?
}`