Setting Options For Flake

Table of Contents

Documentation - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: My NixOS Configuration: ZaneyOS Explained

Part 2: What Is NixOS

Part 3: How The Config Files Work

Part 4: How Theming Works

Part 5: This Article

Part 6: Commonly Reported Issues

Part 7: How To Use ZaneyOS

Part 8: How To Install ZaneyOS

Even though ZaneyOS is my configuration, I do provide more than just a few options to enable things I may not use myself. You can request features and additions through the repository’s issues. However, do keep in mind if I don’t really want it or want to set it up I may choose not to implement it at all.

This page lists the options you may set and describes what they are.

🔎 Where Are The Options?? #

They are located inside the options.nix file. Everything that you may want to change about my configuration is inside of the options.nix file.

🗞️ The Options.nix #

option	description
setUsername	Set The Users Name.
setHostname	Set The Systems Name On Network.
userHome	Where is your home directory? Typically located at /home/insert-username-here.
flakeDir	The location for the zaneyos / flakes directory.
wallpaperGit	The repository where you have all of your wallpapers. This will be used to populate the wallpaperDir directory.
wallpaperDir	Path to the directory to put and source wallpapers from inside of the users home directory.
screenshotDir	The folder where screenshots will be saved inside the users home directory.
flakePrev	Path to the previous zaneyos folder after updating with install script.
flakeBackup	Path to folder containing all zaneyos folder backups before the previous one.
gitUsername	Set username for Git, similar to git config –global user.name “insert-username-here*”.
gitEmail	The email you use for your Git account.
theme	A base16 colorscheme to use with NixColors
borderAnim	Enables or disables the looped animated borders. This is distracting to some.
extraMonitorSettings	Add “monitor=” hyprland lines to hyprland config for host specific monitor settings.
waybarAnim	Determines whether or not the elements on waybar may be animated.
bar-number	Do you want the numbers in the waybar workspaces or not?
clock24h	Enable the time for different utilities to be presented in 24 hour format.
theLocale	Set the locale of the system.
theKBDLayout	Default keyboard layout for the system.
theSecondKBDLayout	Secondary switchable keyboard layout for the system.
theKBDVariant	Define a keyboard variant for the system.
theLCVariables	The extra locale options variable. Probably going to match your locale if in US.
theTimezone	Configure the timezone for the system.
theShell	Rather use zsh than bash? 😉
theKernel	Choose which kernel you would like to run: default, latest, lqx, xanmod, and zen.
sdl-videodriver	Some games will need this to be set to x11, if this needs to be changed it should be set to wayland.
cpuType	The hardware.nix should take care of everything, but just in case there is something specific for Intel CPU’s or AMD needed this exists. Also if running a virtual machine please set this to “vm” for the best experience.
gpuType	This enables or disables opengl and driver settings depending on whether or not it is amd, intel, or nvidia. There is also the option for intel-nvidia for hybrid laptop configurations. Just like cpuType, *if running a virtual machine please set this to “vm” to have a better experience.
intel-bus-id	If running hybrid intel-nvidia this is a requirement. Run, sudo lshw -c display and get the information needed. The syntax has to be changed slightly so please refer here for more information.
nvidia-bus-id	If running hybrid intel-nvidia this is a requirement. Run, sudo lshw -c display and get the information needed. The syntax has to be changed slightly so please refer here for more information.
nfs	Enable & start network filesystem.
nfsMountPoint	Where to mount the NFS at on the system.
nfsDevice	Specify the network device that you want to be mounted.
ntp	Enable time synchronization using pool.org.
localHWClock	Whether or not you want to use local hardware clock. This may break some applications.
printer	Enable printing and scanner support!
browser	The name of the browser do you want installed and used by default. The package name too, for ones like google-chrome where the binary is google-chrome-stable this is solved for you. So it would just be google-chrome.
terminal	Name of the binary for your terminal of choice. Example: “kitty” or “alacritty”.
flatpak	Enables or disables the ability to use flatpaks.
kdenlive	Install kdenlive or not. Please keep in mind that this is not necessarily a small program.
blender	This option controls whether or not blender for 3D modeling is installed.
logitech	Enables added support for Logitech devices. Only needed for added configuration, your Logitech mouse or keyboard will continue to work with this disabled.
wezterm	Enable the installation of the wezterm Terminal Emulator.
alacritty	Enable the installation of the alacritty Terminal Emulator.
kitty	Enable the installation of the kitty Terminal Emulator.
python	Enable Python-dev and PyCharm installation.
syncthing	Install Syncthing.

🏙️ Wallpaper Git Repo #

This is something that has been reported to confuse people. This repo is a link to my wallpaper repo that you can see on Gitlab.

You do not have to change this link. If you want my wallpapers then leave it there. Otherwise if you have your own wallpapers repo then you can replace mine with yours.

The wallpaper setting script does require and configure your wallpapers directory to be a Git repo so this link should only ever be replaced not deleted.