Its alright! I am kinda trying to figure it out myself. But thankyou for the initial push

I am seeing this repo: https://github.com/Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel/blob/master/nix/module.nix

this uses astal to create the said interface but is also configuring the settings like how I want, except it uses json and ts for it where I have scss and lua, otherwise I just can’t wrap my head around how i can translate it to my needs. Maybe I don’t need to edit the files in the build, I could just edit or update the astel.scss using nix as well like how its done there using builtins and other functions, can you help me here, if you’ve got time.

I don’t think there is a way to give the config during runtime or while calling the binary of the app, I will keep trying something, one thing I think that may help is creating that file during the build process, but I just don’t have enough knowledge to do that.

Just don’t be

So I am importing in home manager file and the syntax and building is fine, the file is also being created in my ~/requested folder.

But I think there has been a misunderstanding in my concept of how this package is being installed and where it will get its colors from, so this flake package astal takes colors from where it is built right? and inside there will be created a scss folder which will have the themes/astel.css file, but in our setup we will only create a file in *user’s home/.config/astal directory, but then how will the app use that file? I am getting confuse here, I tried to change the astel.scss file lines to @import "~/.config/astal/scss/themes/astel.scss"; but no cigar. I am missing a piece here, can you please help me?

Sry I am asking a little too much help now.

Please consider these sources:

github.com/mobsenpai/hana

github.com/mobsenpai/aoi (just changed the name)

https://aylur.github.io/astal/guide/getting-started/nix

I was always curious about this linux thing, from when I was in 7th grade, I only knew Kali linux then, and I thought one could hack anything if you had kali linux :), But I seriously started using linux in 10th grade, fell into the rabbit hole of ricing, and to this day still cant get over it although it has become more stable and I know what I am doing.

Yeah, must be the wind

@balsoft Help wanted my G!, I am stuck here I created this flake for my astal widget config: https://github.com/mobsenpai/astal.git

And I have this flake for my main nixos config: https://github.com/hana.git

I can try to import it now, but perhaps it seems that there is some error here. I try building this astal config using nix build (just to try to test it) and it creates a result folder inside the astal folder, where i have its flake and configs, see the astal repo, those are the contents of the folder. But there is no check.scss file gets created in the scss/theme/ folder. I haven’t yet tried to import it into my nixos system, for now, didn’t get the time, but will update you on that, but I feel something if not a lot of things are not good here.

Wow, my G! This is incredibly well-structured, and I really appreciate that you even included comments. It’s genuinely helpful, and I’m definitely going to give it a try.

I actually posted this while my exams are ongoing, hoping someone would respond in the meantime. For real, thank you so much. I love this community!

can you provide me with a simple example, and syntax. I have tried, but failed. I want that the astal config uses a custom colorscheme which i configure somehow that can be given as option when importing that flake in the main nixos system.

To end it peacefully

Would you be able to provide an example code? It would help me grasp the concept more effectively.

So does it mean passing --cmd Hyprland > /dev/null to Tuigreet? If so then that wouldn’t work with my setup, as I use sessions instead of cmd. Here is how I have it in nixos

    services.greetd = {
      enable = true;
      settings = {
        default_session = {
          user = "greeter";
          command = ''
            ${getExe' pkgs.unstable.greetd.tuigreet "tuigreet"} \
            --time \
            --sessions ${cfg.sessionDirs} \
            --remember \
            --remember-session
          '';
        };
      };
    };

The sessionDirs is this

modules.services.greetd.sessionDirs = ["${hyprlandPackage}/share/wayland-sessions"];

This is a link to my dotfiles where I have it:

Yeah , no For system logs I have it on quiet but these are for when Hyprland starts. I forgot to mention that.

I know… For a long and I mean long time I had it, but yk I wan’t to hide it just to spice things up.

Yeah you’re right. you’re a lifesaver, was frustrated the whole day abt it. Much love to you.

I am basing my config on this https://github.com/JManch/nixos/blob/main/modules/nixos/services/greetd.nix

And I don’t see 'em using --cmd only difference I’ve noticed so far is that they use a flake to define the package of hyprland.

ha ha!! take that!

lol. I am glad I became privacy conscious before this happened.

Solved it. Just needed to use progressbar and progress classes in style.css. Adding background color did the job.