How import module from GitHub into Home Manager config?

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Good day,

I’m starting with Home Manager and would like to use plasma module but I can’t find any examples on how to add custom modules into home-manager through adding them directly from git. The author provides a flake example but I’m still learning Nix and trying to minimize the amount of things I need to learn hence not embracing flakes yet.

My current home manager config is minimalistic as in the below and is simply imported into configuration.nix.
How can I add plasma module to it?

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{

  imports = [
    <home-manager/nixos>
  ];
  
  home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
  home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;

  home-manager.users.foo = { pkgs, ... }: {
    home.stateVersion = "21.11";
    home.packages = with pkgs; [
        zoom-us
    ];
    programs.bash.enable = true;
    programs.direnv.enable = true;

  };

}

I’m on NixOS 22.11 on amd64.

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Hi, I’ve discovered the module from your post. I haven’t got it to work fully, but Peter’s config - tilde/flake.nix at ca2dbdb3e8cf05300002692221c3b6802cdf5af9 · pjones/tilde · GitHub may help…

I get the following error which means nothing to me!

error: attribute ‘hm’ missing

   at /nix/store/p5v25rcwc1jxwyprgc5rck3y6x755i68-source/modules/files.nix:55:40:

       54|   config = lib.mkIf (builtins.length (builtins.attrNames cfg) > 0) {
       55|     home.activation.configure-plasma = lib.hm.dag.entryAfter [ "writeBoundary" ] ''
         |                                        ^
       56|       $DRY_RUN_CMD ${script}
   Did you mean one of id or or?
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Yeah, Peter’s examples use flakes. Getting the same error trying to import this module from the cloned directory:

  imports = [
    <home-manager/nixos>
    /home/foo/plasma-manager/modules
  ];

Opened a GH issue How to use without flakes? · Issue #19 · pjones/plasma-manager · GitHub

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Hope you get an answer - there seems to be some subtle issues with the config of this module - I found a fix for the flake issue I highlighted above (How to use it in home.nix ? · Issue #14 · pjones/plasma-manager · GitHub) which I would not have considered.

Regarding flakes - I found the basics were OK so I could get something to work. As you do more, I found that there is becoming more info and examples with flakes. I have been using flakes for a few months now and I feel that is easier to progress. I also use the unstable branch, which seems more robust to me than 22.1 did, and any issues often get fixed more quickly due to the rolling approach.

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The module author has eventually helped me. Here is the solution: link