How to install gnome tweaks?

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hello i recently installed the gnome version of nixos and i was wondering how to install gnome tweaks as it said that it couldnt be found when i tried to install. thank you.

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I have it installed by adding the following to my configuration.nix file:

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
# more configuration above

environment.systemPackages = [
  # the rest of my packages

  pkgs.gnome3.gnome-tweaks
];

# more configuration below
}

There are actually a bunch of gnome specific packages (many already installed as part of the default gnome3 installation) that you can look at by searching the package set for gnomeExtensions.* like this.

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my configuration.nix file was empty and adding your text for it to it didn’t install gnome tweaks. i think i might of messed up the install.

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Your configuration.nix file should be on /etc/nixos/configuration.nix @SandMan.

To sync those changes use nixos-upgrade switch.

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List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:

$ nix search wget

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [

wget vim

firefox

pkgs.gnome3.gnome-tweaks

];

is this how it should work? also running nixos-upgrade switch says nixos-upgrade command not found
so i think nixos-rebuild switch . is the one im supposed to do but running it with that config doesn’t add gnome tweaks to my applications i also tried with vlc and it didn’t work.

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Annoyingly, I usually have to restart GNOME to be able to see applications with desktop items in the list of applications and gnome-shell search. Does gnome-tweaks launch from the command-line? (Or you could try to restart GNOME.)

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Gnome tweaks does work through the terminal. Thank you

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Ah sorry messed up it is nixos-rebuild switch