Synergy (Synergy - Share one mouse & keyboard across computers) is a very useful software to me. And I’m trying to add it’s configuration into my configuration.nix, I have read the doc(http://nmikhailov.github.io/nixpkgs/ch-options.html) , and the nix code (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/ad3234b7d68d65e5d1ccfc6ddfb4cea267441255/nixos/modules/services/misc/synergy.nix), but I find that it need my IP, and I don’t know how to get it from nix script (I don’t want to hard code it) , is there any example configuration.nix about it’s configuration?
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you can use hostnames too in case your ip changes.
Do you have a static IP address that you set in your configuration.nix file, or are you using DHCP? If you set a static IP address on your machine you can create a let statement and pass the IP to synergy, but if you are using DHCP then your IP address is dynamic and can change, something you can’t account for in the nix language. As @teto mentioned using a hostname would be a good solution in this case.
Thanks, that helps. But I want my configuration.nix portable between machines, so is there any way to get current ip or hostname in the nix script?
nix configuration is static while network configuration is dynamic so either you generate the nix configuration either you use the hostname or some network indirection like DNS.