nixos-conf-editor is a simple application that allows you to easily modify attributes within your configuration file, as well as search through available options. It was made using libadwaita, gtk4, and relm4, and is powered by nix-editor. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know!
Usage
This tool is extremely new, so there will likely be lots of errors. If you run into an error, please report the issue!
On an flakes enabled system:
nix run github:vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
On non-flakes enabled system:
nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run github:vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
To Doâs currently unimplemented
Handle <name> and * fields in options
Add easy widgets for modifying simple options like booleans and strings
Add an icon
Package polkit policy file
Background
I remember when I first started using NixOS, as a confused beginner I tried to find a graphical application to manage and edit my configuration. I stumbled upon Nix-GUI, however, I didnât really like the look, it crashed a fair amount, and I never really figured out how to use it. That said, their idea and all of the hard work they put into their project inspired me to make a similar application that focuses more on simplicity and ease of use.
Yeah, probably a missing dep, Iâll fix it when I get back to my computer. As for the other issue, this app made with legacy nix configurations in mind, so flake files wonât work, however if you import a legacy config in your flake, and choose that file here, in the preferences thereâs an option to specify your flake so it can rebuild correctly
Updated the flake so it should work out of the box now. Turns out that even though pandoc was a build input I had to wrap the program and set the PATH to include that of the pandoc package. Also, I think the infinite spinning circle was an error with where the program was trying to download the options from, should be fixed now too
