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Have you thought about creating a series for people who are comfortable with other distros, but totally noobs with nix? Like start from the very basics of Nix language all the way to an advanced config (python development environment, vms, etc) with flakes and all? Your videos are a true treasure, keep up the good work!
I had some issues where it told me programs.bemenu was not enabled, even though I had never installed or wanted it. If anyone else gets this error, make sure that your NixOS and Home-manager versions are the same, and have stylix pkgs follow the same version. That's what fixed it for me. Love stylix, and love your channel!
Yooo, that sound so useful. Honestly selective disabling might be the best feature, since II already have custom themes for some programs. I doubt Stylix will do a better job than hand crafted themes. But for all other programs I will use it, not everything needs to be styled to perfection
I always enjoy your videos! They are very educational! Quick question. How do you change it dynamically when you change the wall paper? Thank you in advance!
If you want to have dynamic wallpapers, it's probably worth using mkOutOfStoreSymlink + custom script. Because otherwise you'll waste a lot of disk space by copying every wallpaper to the nix store.
@@vimjoyer I appreciate your quick response. I see what you are saying. I still would like to give it a shot. Can you help me to do that? Thank you in advance!
So i am using hyprpaper with stylix, and I can get it to change backgrounds dynamically, yet I am not sure how to update the pallet on the current background. The docs didn't seem to have a dynamic way of updating the theme.
I don't think stylix supports changing wallpaper colors from colorscheme, only the other way around. You can check out IogaMasters prism module if you want to generate wallpaper from colorscheme.
Hey, you might wanna add an errata comment to 5:12 ; you can only access `config.stylix.base16Scheme.baseXX` if you declared it as an object. If you used pkgs.base16-schema, this value doesn't work. However, you can access the generated values (even the ones stylix generates itself) using `config.lib.stylix.colors`.
Stylix is so awesome and this video too ofcourse. I immediatly added it to my configuration but I encountered some problems: 1. The header of the left sidebar in Nautilus does not align with the right one (maybe an error in the new Nautilus) 2. Firefox and Thunderbird get an awefully bad colorscheme when using a dark polarity 3. I don't know how to style my quickmenu or the right-click menu on desktop/panel with gtk. This stops me from removing rounded corners everywhere 4. If I want to have rounded corners everywhere I encounter a problem with my terminal. It keeps the sharp corners on the bottom 5. The statusbar in nautilus (bottom right when selecting something) get's a really bad colouring. According to gtk3/4.css the base07-color (which would be much better) is not set to the colors sued by stylix Maybe someone has the same problems and/or knows how to fix these :)
Hello, loved the video and the tool even more! I ran in a little problem however, were my kitty terminal didn't get the colors applied to it automatically did you have any issues like that by any chance, and if yes how did you solve it?
Another great video! Only thing that stylix is missing is changing the styles on the fly. Do you know if apps will update their look and feel when you activate a generation with a different theme? That could allow us to just build several configurations and just activate the one with the theme we want.
@1:40 What if I use both NixOS and home-manager, but configure them separately in the same flake instead of importing home-manager as a system module? I'm not sure if I'm understanding the manual page correctly
One thing keeping me from trying stylix is the on the fly theme switch, from dark to light for example. It will require a system rebuild just to do that unfortunately
Is there a way to let Stylix do the heavy lifting (namely, for Waybar in `style.css`), by defining colors etc., then edit just one color (namely, the workspaces module) using the nix language? Let me know if I'm over-complicating this, but it would be nice to have Stylix do most of the work. Thanks.
You said, that it themes all programs that are enabled in configuration / home-configuration, does this mean that i would need to do programs.firefox.enable before it would get styled?
I just tried stylix. Gotta say, I am not really a fan. It requires a lot of new packages I did not really want to install. Furthermore, it wants to recompile some GDM and Gnome packages, seemingly to apply the theme. The result was rather not as pretty and consistent I hoped it would be. Plus stylix want to take priority in defining settings for my VSCode, simply to install it's extension.
I get a weird error where some GTK folders are created in ./config and I have to delete them to be able to change base16 themes. If I don’t delete them the rebuild will fail. Other than that it’s pretty cool, anyone else have this issue and find a fix?
@@vimjoyer this happened on Plasma and maybe it’s something I did incorrectly ( I am new to Nix). I reinstalled and tried with Gnome and it’s working fine now.
my Nix config has a very bad code style and it's been in the process of being rewritten for about 4 months now (which means I haven't updated my system in a very long time). I just don't feel motivated enough to continue if I know that fixing 1 error will create another... and I also have to live with some bugs that could easily be fixed, if only I had a stable configuration
@@vimjoyerafter watching the entire video, i think it is too good (easy) to be true... my main concern is for apps that use more than base16 colors for their theme, and because i use catppuccin, it has themes for everything. i think if i use the official themes made by the catppuccin theme or even bundled into a program (i've seen some that actually bundle a few themes, and they always contain catppuccin) it will work way better also you can't really get the same result as using a GTK/QT theme made specifically for your color scheme when just providing stylix with 16 colors... also, will you ever make another video going more in-depth on nixvim?
There're two reasons for the bad coloring. The first reason Catpuccin uses 26 colors which allows it to be more colorful. But the more important reasons is that, at least in the neovim case (I haven't tried styling GTK/QT apps so I'm not sure), the plugin for base16 colors, base16-nvim, is pretty sucks. If you use base16-nvim for nix or haskell, you basically get a wall of white texts. It also misses some highlight groups (perhaps intentionally) It also only infact uses 14 colors, missing base06 (light foreground) and base07 (light background), this part is not the plugins fault, I honestly don't know why the official base16 guildline includes those two. Solution? Catppuccin has 26 colors but 12 of those are simply a gradient, corresponding to base00-05, the other 6 are not often used and can be algorithmically generated if necessary. Out of the other 14 colors, the ones that are not available in the base16 version of catppuccin are pink, flamingo, sky, and saphire, which can be substitude by rosewater, red, mauve, blue, or, lavender (which obviously doesn't look as good but it is the price I'm willing to pay for flexibility). You can override the highlight groups yourself to create a theme, or do it like me, fork the repo. It's also important to choose the right palette in order for it to look good. If a palette repeat a color multiple time, the result usually won't be very. If you use base07 for foreground to match the color of catppuccin, you would probably like to modify base07 of most palettes, since it is likely to be too dark (assuming you're using darkmode) or too bland, as it is designed to be a background color. My two favourite palettes are Catppuccin Mocha and Kanagawa (with modified base07). I haven't tried a lot of palette though, as I use translucent terminal background so I need a compatible wallpaper for every palette otherwise it wouldn't be very readable. Ideally I would like to use base24 instead but it not very widely supported.
@@vimjoyer Well I tried enabling everything I could but, no change in terminal which is what I really wanted unfortunately. The themes look really good in boot tho(the one place it's working for me rn lol)! Anyways I've only been using nixos for like a week so I'm probably doing like seven different things wrong but I'll get it eventually and thanks for helping out (:
Is anyone else having issues with trying to use a color from the palette manually? For instance, the example from the video wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings.general.”col.active_border” = lib.mkForce “rgb(${config.stylix.base16Scheme.base0E})“; Errors with: value is a string with context while a set was expected
I also get an error when trying to access a color from the palette manually, but my error is: "value is path while a set was expected". Would love to know how I can fix this, so that I can apply the stylix colors to my custom waybar theme.
`config.lib.stylix.colors.base00` or whatever color you wanted seemed to work for me. had to dig through stylix issues page a little to figure it out..
