home-manager/modules/xresources.nix

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

with lib;

let

  cfg = config.xresources;

  formatLine = n: v:
    let
      formatList = x:
        if isList x
        then throw "can not convert 2-dimensional lists to Xresources format"
        else formatValue x;

      formatValue = v:
        if isBool v then (if v then "true" else "false")
        else if isList v then concatMapStringsSep ", " formatList v
        else toString v;
    in
      "${n}: ${formatValue v}";

in

{
  meta.maintainers = [ maintainers.rycee ];

  options = {
    xresources.properties = mkOption {
      type = types.nullOr types.attrs;
      default = null;
      example = {
        "Emacs*toolBar" = 0;
        "XTerm*faceName" = "dejavu sans mono";
        "XTerm*charClass" = [ "37:48" "45-47:48" "58:48" "64:48" "126:48" ];
      };
      description = ''
        X server resources that should be set.
        Booleans are formatted as "true" or "false" respectively.
        List elements are recursively formatted as a string and joined by commas.
        All other values are directly formatted using builtins.toString. 
        Note, that 2-dimensional lists are not supported and specifying one will throw an exception.
        If this and all other xresources options are
        <code>null</code>, then this feature is disabled and no
        <filename>~/.Xresources</filename> link is produced.
      '';
    };

    xresources.extraConfig = mkOption {
      type = types.lines;
      default = "";
      example = literalExample ''
        builtins.readFile (
            pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
                owner = "solarized";
                repo = "xresources";
                rev = "025ceddbddf55f2eb4ab40b05889148aab9699fc";
                sha256 = "0lxv37gmh38y9d3l8nbnsm1mskcv10g3i83j0kac0a2qmypv1k9f";
            } + "/Xresources.dark"
        )
      '';
      description = ''
        Additional X server resources contents.
        If this and all other xresources options are
        <code>null</code>, then this feature is disabled and no
        <filename>~/.Xresources</filename> link is produced.
      '';
    };
  };

  config = mkIf (cfg.properties != null || cfg.extraConfig != "") {
    home.file.".Xresources" = {
      text =
        concatStringsSep "\n" ([]
          ++ optional (cfg.extraConfig != "") cfg.extraConfig
          ++ optionals (cfg.properties != null) (mapAttrsToList formatLine cfg.properties)
        ) + "\n";
      onChange = ''
        if [[ -v DISPLAY ]] ; then
          $DRY_RUN_CMD ${pkgs.xorg.xrdb}/bin/xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
        fi
      '';
    };
  };
}