`programs.noctalia.settings` deploys the TOML as a store symlink, so every edit needs a `home-manager switch`. Deploy the baseline from the config layer with `mkOutOfStoreSymlink` instead: Noctalia hot-reloads config-layer files and never rewrites them, so edits apply live while Settings UI changes stay in ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml (which loads last) and out of the repo.
Update the docs and host-specific comments to match the two-layer model.
- root README: VS Code config moved from home/linux/gui/base/editors.nix to vscode.nix
- READMEs now list both GUI editors (Zed, the primary one, plus VS Code)
- base README: xdg is a directory now, nvidia.nix no longer exists, editors.nix -> vscode.nix
- idols-ai README: disko-fs-media.nix -> disko-fs-data.nix (/persistent/data)
- secrets README: password-store moved from home/base/desktop to home/base/tui
- drop unused link definitions (AstroNvim, wl-clipboard, Catppuccin)
- fix a pre-existing typo flagged by the typos hook (keeped -> kept)
Noctalia v5 is the native C++/Wayland rewrite; the Quickshell-based v4 line (pkgs.noctalia-shell) is EOL and its JSON config is not migrated upstream.
- use the upstream home-manager programs.noctalia module (present at our pinned HM revision) instead of the hand-rolled package + symlink module: it installs pkgs.noctalia, validates config.toml at build time via checkConfig, and supports customPalettes; drop the v4 Qt/Qt6ct session setup
- replace the v4 settings.json/plugins.json with a minimal shared config.toml (font, Catppuccin shell palette, templates off, screenshot annotation, accessibility/bar scale, night light, wallpaper, location/weather); host-specific bits live in per-host files (shoukei's eDP-1 backlight in noctalia/host-shoukei.toml), which merge after config.toml. Application theming stays with catppuccin/nix
- treat config.toml as the single source of truth: do NOT persist ~/.local/state/noctalia and set setup_wizard_enabled = false, so UI tweaks are promoted back into the repo instead of accumulating in app-owned state
- port niri keybinds to 'noctalia msg ...', update spawn-at-startup and the backdrop layer namespace, fix the broken 'octalia-shell' media-previous bind, and replace the grim/slurp/satty screenshot stack with Noctalia's native region/fullscreen/annotate commands (drop the unused packages)
- drop the now-redundant swaybg and swaylock (Noctalia owns the wallpaper and lock screen, the latter authenticating against the PAM 'login' service) and its PAM entry; keep wlogout as an emergency fallback
- update hypridle's lock commands and the matching eval test
- refresh the noctalia docs
Ryan Yin
ryan4yin | 二花