{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.dconf; toDconfIni = generators.toINI { mkKeyValue = mkIniKeyValue; }; mkIniKeyValue = key: value: "${key}=${toString (hm.gvariant.mkValue value)}"; # The dconf keys managed by this configuration. We store this as part of the # generation state to be able to reset keys that become unmanaged during # switch. stateDconfKeys = pkgs.writeText "dconf-keys.json" (builtins.toJSON (concatLists (mapAttrsToList (dir: entries: mapAttrsToList (key: _: "/${dir}/${key}") entries) cfg.settings))); in { meta.maintainers = [ maintainers.rycee ]; options = { dconf = { enable = mkOption { type = types.bool; # While technically dconf on darwin could work, our activation step # requires dbus, which only *lightly* supports Darwin in general, and # not at all in the way it's packaged in nixpkgs. Because of this, we # just disable dconf for darwin hosts by default. # In the future, if someone gets dbus working, this _could_ be # re-enabled, unclear whether there's actual value in it though. default = !pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin; visible = false; description = lib.mdDoc '' Whether to enable dconf settings. Note, if you use NixOS then you must add `programs.dconf.enable = true` to your system configuration. Otherwise you will see a systemd error message when your configuration is activated. ''; }; settings = mkOption { type = with types; attrsOf (attrsOf hm.types.gvariant); default = { }; example = literalExpression '' { "org/gnome/calculator" = { button-mode = "programming"; show-thousands = true; base = 10; word-size = 64; window-position = lib.hm.gvariant.mkTuple [100 100]; }; } ''; description = lib.mdDoc '' Settings to write to the dconf configuration system. Note that the database is strongly-typed so you need to use the same types as described in the GSettings schema. For example, if an option is of type `uint32` (`u`), you need to wrap the number using the `lib.hm.gvariant.mkUint32` constructor. Otherwise, since Nix integers are implicitly coerced to `int32` (`i`), it would get stored in the database as such, and GSettings might be confused when loading the setting. You might want to use [dconf2nix](https://github.com/gvolpe/dconf2nix) to convert dconf database dumps into compatible Nix expression. ''; }; }; }; config = mkIf (cfg.enable && cfg.settings != { }) { # Make sure the dconf directory exists. xdg.configFile."dconf/.keep".source = builtins.toFile "keep" ""; home.extraBuilderCommands = '' mkdir -p $out/state/ ln -s ${stateDconfKeys} $out/state/${stateDconfKeys.name} ''; home.activation.dconfSettings = hm.dag.entryAfter [ "installPackages" ] (let iniFile = pkgs.writeText "hm-dconf.ini" (toDconfIni cfg.settings); statePath = "state/${stateDconfKeys.name}"; cleanup = pkgs.writeShellScript "dconf-cleanup" '' set -euo pipefail ${config.lib.bash.initHomeManagerLib} PATH=${makeBinPath [ pkgs.dconf pkgs.jq ]}''${PATH:+:}$PATH oldState="$1" newState="$2" # Can't do cleanup if we don't know the old state. if [[ ! -f $oldState ]]; then exit 0 fi # Reset all keys that are present in the old generation but not the new # one. jq -r -n \ --slurpfile old "$oldState" \ --slurpfile new "$newState" \ '($old[] - $new[])[]' \ | while read -r key; do $VERBOSE_ECHO "Resetting dconf key \"$key\"" $DRY_RUN_CMD $DCONF_DBUS_RUN_SESSION dconf reset "$key" done ''; in '' if [[ -v DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ]]; then export DCONF_DBUS_RUN_SESSION="" else export DCONF_DBUS_RUN_SESSION="${pkgs.dbus}/bin/dbus-run-session --dbus-daemon=${pkgs.dbus}/bin/dbus-daemon" fi if [[ -v oldGenPath ]]; then ${cleanup} \ "$oldGenPath/${statePath}" \ "$newGenPath/${statePath}" fi $DRY_RUN_CMD $DCONF_DBUS_RUN_SESSION ${pkgs.dconf}/bin/dconf load / < ${iniFile} unset DCONF_DBUS_RUN_SESSION ''); }; }