As far as I know, dwm is configured by source-patching some files. It doesn't use anything like '~/.dwmrc' files, it really modifies C source code!
Well, we can use some derivation like "patches = [ patch1 patch2 ];" 2014-10-10 18:00 GMT-03:00 Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]>: > Hi Javier, > > On 10 October 2014 18:39, Javier Aguirre <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good evening, >> >> I've been playing around with NixOS for a while, I have my own NIXPKGS repo >> with a custom version of dwm, the window manager. >> >> The problem is I can install my custom dwm build, but when I boot the old >> dwm remains(the one in the NixOS original channel) in >> /run/current-system/sw/bin/dwm. > > What ends up in /run/current-system/sw/bin/* is controlled by the > environment.systemPackages option. (Installing with nix-env won't add > anything to this directory.) > >> I can install it for root(default profile) and my user because I can see a >> change I made to 'dwm -v', but I cannot change the version that boots. I >> located the hash and the current version working for boot, but I don't know >> If I have to install it for a different profile, make a derivation in my >> configuration.nix, etc. > > I don't use dwm, so I don't know if this applies to that specific > case. Some NixOS modules have options to specify which derivation to > use for the component it configures. For example, for the tomcat > server, there is a services.tomcat.package option. It defaults to > pkgs.tomcat7, but you can specify something else if you want. > > If there is no option you can try using > > nixpkgs.config = { > packageOverrides = pkgs: { > dwm = myCustomDwmDerivation; > }; > }; > > in configuration.nix to supply your own definition of 'dwm', used > across the whole system. > > Best regards, > Bjørn Forsman > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
