fix: try to make firefox the default browser

README.md

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ This repository is home to the nix code that builds my systems.
 - auto unlock with `ssh-agent` after login
   - [People using ssh-agent, how do you unlock it on login? - reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/lsbo9a/people_using_sshagent_how_do_you_unlock_it_on/)
 - update scripts for i3wm, especially rofi & screenshot
+- fix `xdg-open`: after set `firefox.desktop` as defaultApplication, NixOS returned error `no apps installed that can open "https://baidu.com"`
+- `Xcursor.size` do not take effect in i3
 
 ## Why Nix?
 

home/common/core.nix

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-{config, pkgs, ...}: let
+{config, pkgs, ...}: 
-  d = config.xdg.dataHome;
+
-  c = config.xdg.configHome;
+{
-  cache = config.xdg.cacheHome;
-in rec {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
     neofetch
     nnn          # terminal file manager
@@ -72,10 +70,6 @@ in rec {
     };
   };
 
-  services = {
-    # syncthing.enable = true;
-  };
-
   programs.bash = {
     enable = true;
     enableCompletion = true;
@@ -84,29 +78,6 @@ in rec {
     '';
   };
 
-  # add environment variables
-  systemd.user.sessionVariables = {
-    # clean up ~
-    LESSHISTFILE = cache + "/less/history";
-    LESSKEY = c + "/less/lesskey";
-    WINEPREFIX = d + "/wine";
-
-    # set this variable make i3 failed to start
-    # related issue:
-    #   https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/871
-    # XAUTHORITY = "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/Xauthority";
-
-    # set default applications
-    BROWSER = "firefox";
-    TERMINAL = "alacritty";
-
-    # enable scrolling in git diff
-    DELTA_PAGER = "less -R";
-
-    MANPAGER = "sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'";
-  };
-
-  home.sessionVariables = systemd.user.sessionVariables;
 
   home.shellAliases = {
     k = "kubectl";

home/common/default.nix

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
-{config, pkgs, ...}: let
+{config, pkgs, ...}: 
-  d = config.xdg.dataHome;
+{
-  c = config.xdg.configHome;
-  cache = config.xdg.cacheHome;
-in rec {
   imports = [
     ./nushell
 

home/linux/common/shell.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{config, ...}: 
+
+let
+  d = config.xdg.dataHome;
+  c = config.xdg.configHome;
+  cache = config.xdg.cacheHome;
+in rec {
+  # add environment variables
+  systemd.user.sessionVariables = {
+    # clean up ~
+    LESSHISTFILE = cache + "/less/history";
+    LESSKEY = c + "/less/lesskey";
+    WINEPREFIX = d + "/wine";
+
+    # set this variable make i3 failed to start
+    # related issue:
+    #   https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/871
+    # XAUTHORITY = "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/Xauthority";
+
+    # set default applications
+    BROWSER = "firefox";
+    TERMINAL = "alacritty";
+
+    # enable scrolling in git diff
+    DELTA_PAGER = "less -R";
+
+    MANPAGER = "sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'";
+  };
+
+  home.sessionVariables = systemd.user.sessionVariables;
+}

home/linux/common/system-tools.nix

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   };
 
   services = {
-    playerctld.enable = true;
+    # syncthing.enable = true;
   };
+
 }

home/linux/common/xdg.nix

@@ -2,35 +2,9 @@
 # It's a bunch of specifications from freedesktop.org intended to standardize desktops and 
 # other GUI applications on various systems (primarily Unix-like) to be interoperable: 
 #   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/
-{config, pkgs, ...}: let
+{config, pkgs, ...}: 
-  browser = ["firefox.desktop"];
+{
-
-  # XDG MIME types
-  associations = {
-    "application/x-extension-htm" = browser;
-    "application/x-extension-html" = browser;
-    "application/x-extension-shtml" = browser;
-    "application/x-extension-xht" = browser;
-    "application/x-extension-xhtml" = browser;
-    "application/xhtml+xml" = browser;
-    "text/html" = browser;
-    "x-scheme-handler/about" = browser;
-    "x-scheme-handler/ftp" = browser;
-    "x-scheme-handler/http" = browser;
-    "x-scheme-handler/https" = browser;
-    "x-scheme-handler/unknown" = browser;
-
-    "audio/*" = ["mpv.desktop"];
-    "video/*" = ["mpv.dekstop"];
-    "image/*" = ["imv.desktop"];
-    "application/json" = browser;
-    "application/pdf" = browser;  # TODO: pdf viewer
-    "x-scheme-handler/discord" = ["discord.desktop"];
-    "x-scheme-handler/tg" = ["telegramdesktop.desktop"];
-  };
-in {
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
-    xdg-utils
     xdg-user-dirs
   ];
 
@@ -38,9 +12,70 @@ in {
     enable = true;
     cacheHome = config.home.homeDirectory + "/.local/cache";
 
+    # manage $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mimeapps.list
+    # xdg search all desktop entries from $XDG_DATA_DIRS, check it by command:
+    #  echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS 
+    # the system-level desktop entries can be list by command:
+    #   ls -l /run/current-system/sw/share/applications/
+    # the user-level desktop entries can be list by command(user ryan):
+    #  ls /etc/profiles/per-user/ryan/share/applications/
     mimeApps = {
       enable = true;
-      defaultApplications = associations;
+      associations.added = 
+        let
+          browser = ["firefox.desktop"];
+        in
+        {
+          "application/json" = browser;
+          "application/pdf" = browser;  # TODO: pdf viewer
+
+          "text/html" = browser;
+          "text/xml" = browser;
+          "application/xml" = browser;
+          "application/xhtml+xml" = browser;
+          "application/xhtml_xml" = browser;
+          "application/rdf+xml" = browser;
+          "application/rss+xml" = browser;
+          "application/x-extension-htm" = browser;
+          "application/x-extension-html" = browser;
+          "application/x-extension-shtml" = browser;
+          "application/x-extension-xht" = browser;
+          "application/x-extension-xhtml" = browser;
+
+          "x-scheme-handler/about" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/ftp" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/http" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/https" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/unknown" = browser;
+          
+          "x-scheme-handler/discord" = ["discord.desktop"];
+          "x-scheme-handler/tg" = ["telegramdesktop.desktop"];
+
+          "audio/*" = ["mpv.desktop"];
+          "video/*" = ["mpv.dekstop"];
+          "image/*" = ["imv.desktop"];
+        };
+
+      associations.removed =
+        let
+          browser = ["google-chrome.desktop"];
+        in
+        {
+          "text/html" = browser;
+          "text/xml" = browser;
+          "application/xml" = browser;
+          "application/xhtml+xml" = browser;
+          "application/xhtml_xml" = browser;
+          "application/rdf+xml" = browser;
+          "application/rss+xml" = browser;
+          "image/gif" = browser;
+          "image/jpeg" = browser;
+          "image/png" = browser;
+          "image/webp" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/http" = browser;
+          "x-scheme-handler/https" = browser;
+          "application/pdf" = browser;
+        };
     };
 
     userDirs = {

home/linux/desktop/creative.nix

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   ];
 
   programs = {
+    # live streaming
     obs-studio.enable = true;
   };
 }

home/linux/desktop/default.nix

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
     # networking
     wireshark
 
+    # e-book viewer(.epub/.mobi/...)
+    # do not support .pdf
+    foliate
+
     # instant messaging
     telegram-desktop
     discord

home/linux/desktop/media.nix

@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@
       defaultProfiles = ["gpu-hq"];
       scripts = [pkgs.mpvScripts.mpris];
     };
+  };
 
-    obs-studio.enable = true;
+  services = {
+    playerctld.enable = true;
   };
 }

home/linux/hyprland/wayland-apps.nix

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {
   pkgs,
   nixpkgs-stable,
-  config,
   ...
 }: let
   pkgs-stable = import nixpkgs-stable {
@@ -9,12 +8,6 @@
     config.allowUnfree = true;
   };
   in {
-  home.packages = with pkgs-stable; [
-    firefox-wayland  # firefox with wayland support
-    wineWowPackages.wayland
-  ];
-
-
   # TODO vscode & chrome both have wayland support, but they don't work with fcitx5, need to fix it.
   programs = {
 
@@ -38,6 +31,12 @@
       ];
     };
 
+    firefox = {
+      enable = true;
+      enableGnomeExtensions = false;
+      package = pkgs-stable.firefox-wayland;  # firefox with wayland support
+    };
+
     vscode = {
       enable = true;
       # use the stable version

home/linux/wayland.nix

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     ./fcitx5
     ./desktop
 
+    ./common/shell.nix
     ./common/ssh.nix
     ./common/system-tools.nix
     ./common/xdg.nix

home/linux/x11.nix

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     ./fcitx5
     ./desktop
 
+    ./common/shell.nix
     ./common/ssh.nix
     ./common/system-tools.nix
     ./common/xdg.nix