Wrap Alacritty with nixGL. Now the home manager flake needs to be bui…

…ld with --impure Context: nix-community/nixGL#90
15cm · Dec 3, 2022 · 9d1676a · 9d1676a
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diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
@@ -11,9 +11,19 @@
       url = "github:nix-community/emacs-overlay";
       inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
     };
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+    # nixgl is needed for alacritty outside of nixOS
+    # refer to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/122671
+    # https://github.com/guibou/nixGL/#use-an-overlay
+    nixgl = {
+      inputs.flake-utils.follows = "flake-utils";
+      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+      url = "github:guibou/nixGL";
+    };
   };
 
-  outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, emacs-overlay, ... }@inputs:
+  outputs =
+    { nixpkgs, home-manager, emacs-overlay, nixgl, flake-utils, ... }@inputs:
     let
       supportedSystems = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
       forAllSystems = nixpkgs.lib.genAttrs supportedSystems;
@@ -24,9 +34,10 @@
         import nixpkgs {
           inherit system;
           overlays = with overlays; [
-            emacs-overlay.overlay
             additions
             modifications
+            emacs-overlay.overlay
+            nixgl.overlays.default
           ];
           config.allowUnfree = true;
         });

diff --git a/home/features/app/alacritty/default.nix b/home/features/app/alacritty/default.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 let inherit (state) theme;
 in {
+  home.packages = [ pkgs.nixgl.auto.nixGLDefault ];
   programs.alacritty = {
     enable = true;
     settings = {

diff --git a/home/features/app/i3/config.jinja b/home/features/app/i3/config.jinja
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ bindsym $mod+Shift+e exec "i3-nagbar -t warning -m 'You pressed the exit shortcu
 bindsym $mod+v exec wmfocus
 
 # Launcher
-bindsym $mod+Return exec alacritty
+bindsym $mod+Return exec nixGL alacritty
 bindsym $mod+i exec keepassxc
 bindsym $mod+y exec i3-quickterm shell
 bindsym $mod+e exec splatmoji type

diff --git a/home/features/app/set-theme/set-theme-command-base.sh.jinja b/home/features/app/set-theme/set-theme-command-base.sh.jinja
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 sed -i "s/\(theme.*\)\"[^\"]*\"/\1\"$1\"/" {{statePath}}
-home-manager switch --flake {{flakeUri}}
+home-manager switch --impure --flake {{flakeUri}}
 i3-msg reload
 killall -USR2 i3status-rs
 powerline-daemon --replace