Since this is about using nix on Archlinux and Mac, is it perhaps off topic for this discourse, if so might you point me to the right place to ask?
I’m using nixGL to start kitty (the fancy terminal emulator)
Programs started by nixGL start with a fresh PATH and environment and in doing so loose all sense of Nix. so they can’t start other programs or interact with anything.
To work around this i have been running:
echo $PATH > .path
nixGL kitty
export PATH=`cat .path`
which is somewhat inelegant. What other approaches might help with this?
TLATER
August 26, 2024, 10:19pm
2
If you’re using home-manager, you probably missed step 4 of the standalone installation instructions: Home Manager Manual
If not, it definitely still sounds like your shell init isn’t set correctly.
I don’t have home manager
TLATER
August 26, 2024, 10:20pm
4
Fair enough, how exactly are you launching kitty then? How did you install nixGL and kitty? What else did you install and how?
to install nixgl i couldn’t make the overlay from my project flake so i installed it manually
nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/nixGL/archive/main.tar.gz nixgl && nix-channel --update
nix-env -iA nixgl.auto.nixGLDefault
then start the flake
~/tmp/flake » nix develop 130 ↵ (main⚡) arthur@a:15:23:45
warning: Git tree '/home/arthur/tmp/flake' is dirty
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/arthur/.emacs.d/init.el': Permission denied
arthur@a:~/tmp/flake$ echo $PATH
/nix/store/ywz6s6bzap4x6yhg2lrx3ibqcnv051c7-patchelf-0.15.0/bin:/nix/store/lbk30k56awz9vz9qpid93fkjns0xwlhd-gcc-wrapper-13.3.0/bin:/nix/store/wl7xs26116sswgw18pnc3yw9r5gxr6hx-gcc-13.3.0/bin:/nix/store/mg27y4zq8j0m8dn83azqmq02xvfmsd9i-glibc-2.39-52-bin/bin:/nix/store/w1iq3315z63558j04gnlzdd2yk1v1hfz-coreutils-9.5/bin:/nix/store/qrw9mznq4p1135k53aa5g9saz229srf4-binutils-wrapper-2.42/bin:/nix/store/x7yyxvwy1f9hlx72rzrgx069jyf7hxwr-binutils-2.42/bin:/nix/store/jav6m86f97cpj1l5d3waqhq1yz837pxp-cargo-1.80.1/bin:/nix/store/v191kl97751i0rpmvhhrsjfdl9lm38s2-rustc-wrapper-1.80.1/bin:/nix/store/829l25fb7gsf1k5yclzm3ggym2qr6bga-rustfmt-1.80.1/bin:/nix/store/3prj2gccvgpr5fmp0lrm25n7mriw8zba-pre-commit-3.7.1/bin:/nix/store/f2y25r57f7prlqnhiagzxdrnc3dgkyvv-clippy-1.80.1/bin:/nix/store/n0yhbikwy35h4pr4c802pxjh1vrpv8n7-emacs-29.4/bin:/nix/store/lngnavky30wxh3hj6hp3fsjsqhb5r6r5-ispell-3.4.06/bin:/nix/store/p45c31p2qhwjy4vf60v2d2mw9bvvpb67-git-2.45.2/bin:/nix/store/7n0s30gdikxm7axahp3l9gk4wza29sm5-kitty-0.35.2/bin:/nix/store/04gg5w1s662l329a8kh9xcwyp0k64v5a-python3-3.12.4/bin:/nix/store/w1iq3315z63558j04gnlzdd2yk1v1hfz-coreutils-9.5/bin:/nix/store/ajymwgc23snyw48wvkapw4qjggsi2vbw-findutils-4.10.0/bin:/nix/store/frx30r9405q0d4jfxnf969mgq4q8rjk2-diffutils-3.10/bin:/nix/store/d58flzaagmfb5pyvmknly4cnws45nc80-gnused-4.9/bin:/nix/store/7adzfq6lz76h928gmws5sn6nkli14ml6-gnugrep-3.11/bin:/nix/store/wab5wlc7rrn58z6ay4ls42av4n8rlqia-gawk-5.2.2/bin:/nix/store/k11rxbj9mvpgfk15rriqjn97by18r2xk-gnutar-1.35/bin:/nix/store/ybpxfq146szbqv8xxlc7ixnj9k6l1y5d-gzip-1.13/bin:/nix/store/07lm36zpghw8i9spwbcgkwzisw22k1kn-bzip2-1.0.8-bin/bin:/nix/store/nkza13k6khbmm7z2j6vj40k7081w6c9q-gnumake-4.4.1/bin:/nix/store/4bj2kxdm1462fzcc2i2s4dn33g2angcc-bash-5.2p32/bin:/nix/store/rr31bwb0jym6mgspqp54wdydr94skqvc-patch-2.7.6/bin:/nix/store/1idcyg3ldcggjzfznb5klr7b2wa1vznf-xz-5.6.2-bin/bin:/nix/store/2cqhdkxl71p1afk02g34hm3mbzwb8h1a-file-5.45/bin:/home/arthur/.local/bin:/home/arthur/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/core_perl/:/home/arthur/.nix-profile/bin
then start kitty:
nixGL kitty
then in kitty check the PATH:
/home/arthur/.local/bin:/home/arthur/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/core_perl/:/home/arthur/.nix-profile/bin
~/tmp/flake » ```
PS: it’s likely not related, though here’s the flake with the nixGL commented out
{
inputs = {
naersk.url = "github:nix-community/naersk/master";
nixgl.url = "github:nix-community/nixGL";
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
# Add the GitHub repository as an input
emacsConfig.url = "github:thearthur/arthur-s-emacs-config";
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils, naersk, emacsConfig, nixgl }:
utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
let
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
overlays = [ nixgl.overlay ];
};
naersk-lib = pkgs.callPackage naersk { };
#nixGL = nixgl.${system}.nixGLDefault;
in
{
defaultPackage = naersk-lib.buildPackage ./.;
devShell = with pkgs; mkShell {
buildInputs = [
cargo
rustc
rustfmt
pre-commit
rustPackages.clippy
emacs
ispell
git
kitty
#nixGL
];
RUST_SRC_PATH = rustPlatform.rustLibSrc;
# Fetch the init.el file from the GitHub repository
shellHook = ''
if [ ! -d ~/.emacs.d ]; then
mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d
fi
cp ${emacsConfig}/init.el ~/.emacs.d/init.el
'';
};
}
);
}```
arthurr
September 4, 2024, 4:56pm
6
I have given up.