Override environment.variables with user variable in GNOME?

ryantm · September 12, 2020, 9:51pm

Hello.

I use GNOME on NixOS, and I noticed that environment variables, like EDITOR, set by the NixOS option environment.variables are present in my session’s environment. Is there a way to override these variables via user configuration?

I have tried these things:

systemd environment.d in ~/.config/environment.d/
~/.profile

This issue seems relevant and has some workarounds, but I’m wondering if there is an official way.

Sincerely,
Ryan Mulligan

fzakaria · September 12, 2020, 10:56pm

Maybe not the answer you are looking for; but I’ve solved this with home-manager + NixOS combined.

I tend to make a users/ directory in my NixOS repository and it looks very similar to a home-manager repository.


{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }: {
  imports = [
    ../../modules/users.nix
  ];

https://github.com/fzakaria/nix-home/blob/5218d96311d62f8b9954c81174408fa57f9cbb41/modules/users.nix

github.com

fzakaria/nix-home/blob/5218d96311d62f8b9954c81174408fa57f9cbb41/users/fmzakari/default.nix

# Place common home-manager setup here
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
with lib; {

  imports = [
    ./git
    ./zsh
    ./broot.nix
    ./direnv.nix
    ./fzf.nix
    ./tmux
    ./bat
    ./jrnl
    ./fonts.nix
  ];

  options.home.email = mkOption {
    type = types.str;
    default = "farid.m.zakaria@gmail.com";
    description = "The email to associate primarily with my user.";

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ryantm · September 13, 2020, 5:45pm

@fzakaria I don’t understand what your suggestion is.