A libadwaita/gtk4 app for editing NixOS configurations

Victor Fuentes

Last update: Dec 25, 2022

Related tags

Command-line nixos-conf-editor

Overview

NixOS Configuration Editor

A simple NixOS configuration editor application built with libadwaita, GTK4, and Relm4. The goal of this project is to provide a simple graphical tool for modifying and managing desktop NixOS configurations.

To Do's currently unimplemented

Handle <name> and * fields in options
Handle files in imports
Add easy widgets for modifying simple options like booleans and strings
Add an icon
Package polkit policy file

Things Done

Set and modify configuration options
- Validate option types
Search options
Indicate which options are set
Rebuild system and show errors

Usage

This tool is extremely new, so there will likely be lots of errors. If you run into an error, please report the issue!

On an flakes enabled system:

nix run github:vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor

On non-flakes enabled system:

nix --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes" run github:vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor

Screenshots

Comments

Use GPL

You used GPLv3 at https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-software-center.

It would make sense here as well.

Since there are no contributors yet, you can just change it.

opened by davidak 1
Handle configuration imports

Currently only supports reading and editing a single file. Would be more useful if imports could be handled, read, and edited as well. Perhaps automatically detect a list, as well as support manually choosing files.

Related: https://github.com/vlinkz/nix-editor/issues/7 #6

opened by vlinkz 0

Build fails

  nixos-conf-editor = (import (pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "vlinkz";
    repo = "nixos-conf-editor";
    rev = "0.0.4";
    sha256 = "sha256-esyfFl72t5k2XNq6DCRgfIC6TYgIMyGKla9GaEEN0Oo=";
  })) {};

   Compiling relm4 v0.5.0-beta.1 (https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4?tag=v0.5.0-beta.1#a7d24329)
error[E0658]: trait bounds other than `Sized` on const fn parameters are unstable
  --> /build/nixos-conf-editor-0.0.4-vendor.tar.gz/relm4/src/shared_state.rs:35:6
   |
35 | impl<Data> SharedState<Data>
   |      ^^^^
...
51 |     pub const fn new() -> Self {
   |     -------------------------- function declared as const here
   |
   = note: see issue #93706 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93706> for more information

error[E0658]: function pointer casts are not allowed in constant functions
  --> /build/nixos-conf-editor-0.0.4-vendor.tar.gz/relm4/src/shared_state.rs:53:29
   |
53 |             data: Lazy::new(|| RwLock::new(Data::default())),
   |                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: see issue #57563 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57563> for more information

error[E0658]: function pointer casts are not allowed in constant functions
  --> /build/nixos-conf-editor-0.0.4-vendor.tar.gz/relm4/src/shared_state.rs:54:36
   |
54 |             subscribers: Lazy::new(|| RwLock::new(Vec::default())),
   |                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = note: see issue #57563 <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/57563> for more information

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0658`.
error: could not compile `relm4` due to 3 previous errors
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed
[3/5] Generating data/dev.vlinkz.NixosConfEditor.metainfo.xml with a custom command
FAILED: src/nixos-conf-editor 
/nix/store/p643r4aczmzb0dhyrx3dj592f0s5v7xj-coreutils-9.0/bin/env CARGO_HOME=/build/nfar6ph3pgm6kcyqrk9zdiyafb5xgcfn-source/build/cargo-home /nix/store/2gwhsd2jcz90zni0pwlhhfbmfbflixws-cargo-1.60.0/bin/cargo build --manifest-path /build/nfar6ph3pgm6kcyqrk9zdiyafb5xgcfn-source/Cargo.toml --target-dir /build/nfar6ph3pgm6kcyqrk9zdiyafb5xgcfn-source/build/src --release && cp src/release/nixos-conf-editor src/nixos-conf-editor
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
error: builder for '/nix/store/2v8pjhcxrcnsgsv34j2jdw4y8wk21gxa-nixos-conf-editor-0.0.4.drv' failed with exit code 1

system: "x86_64-linux"
host os: Linux 5.15.67, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka), 22.05.3201.bcc68429a50
multi-user?: yes
sandbox: yes
version: nix-env (Nix) 2.8.1
channels(root): "home-manager-22.05.tar.gz, nixos-22.05, nixos-hardware, nixos-unstable"
nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

opened by davidak 3

Could not load cache

Opening the application just gives me the "Could not load cache" error. I can't do anything, and it doesn't look enabling the debug flag shows anything useful.

RUST_LOG=nixos_conf_editor=trace nixos-conf-editor                                                                 
 DEBUG nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > opt changing valuebuf to ""
 DEBUG nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > conf changing valuebuf to ""
 DEBUG nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > valuetracker changing valuebuf to ""
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > OptPageMsg::UpdateConfMod
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > pre_view
 DEBUG nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > valuetracker changing valuebuf to "0"
 DEBUG nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > valuebuf changed to "0"
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > OptPageMsg::UpdateConf
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > pre_view
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::SetDarkMode
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::SetConfPath
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > OptPageMsg::SetScheme
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::optionpage > pre_view
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::TryLoad
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::LoadError
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::TryLoad
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::LoadError
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::TryLoad
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::LoadError
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::TryLoad
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::LoadError
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::TryLoad
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::LoadError
 INFO  nixos_conf_editor::ui::window     > Received AppMsg::Close

opened by baduhai 4

Location dialog not usable

I see this in terminal when i open the location selection:

If you handle this event, you must return GDK_EVENT_PROPAGATE so the default handler gets the event as well

I can click around, but nothing happens.

opened by davidak 1

'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at 'Invalid Data'

[davidak@gaming:~]$ RUST_BACKTRACE=full nix run github:vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor
thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at 'Invalid Data', src/parse/cache.rs:96:21
stack backtrace:
   0:     0x560cbfbb4e9c - <std::sys_common::backtrace::_print::DisplayBacktrace as core::fmt::Display>::fmt::hf9a1e5015c7372de
   1:     0x560cbfbe838e - core::fmt::write::h9fe85dc123605e26
   2:     0x560cbfbc3838 - std::io::Write::write_fmt::hb015af194a783782
   3:     0x560cbfbcb936 - std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}::h5be0c3f8bc5f82d3
   4:     0x560cbfbcb5cc - std::panicking::default_hook::h26c625e8da3d12e5
   5:     0x560cbfbcbf79 - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::h9e5373efea59497b
   6:     0x560cbfbb5af7 - std::panicking::begin_panic_handler::{{closure}}::h6675d1d897d2268b
   7:     0x560cbfbb4fc4 - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_end_short_backtrace::h2eebb466dcccf8e7
   8:     0x560cbfbcba72 - rust_begin_unwind
   9:     0x560cbfa42823 - core::panicking::panic_fmt::h388cf0442c96c658
  10:     0x560cbfaa0668 - core::panicking::panic_display::h61c4d900c29807b1
  11:     0x560cbfa9d608 - nixos_conf_editor::parse::cache::setupcache::h4609d58d2cc23251
  12:     0x560cbfa9bf57 - nixos_conf_editor::parse::cache::checkcache::h20d165e451c4fabb
  13:     0x560cbfaa4235 - <core::future::from_generator::GenFuture<T> as core::future::future::Future>::poll::hcf8af2b3e258255f
  14:     0x560cbfad0a68 - tokio::runtime::task::harness::poll_future::h4d33085fbd2d268e
  15:     0x560cbfaccb81 - tokio::runtime::task::harness::Harness<T,S>::poll::h88f018d0b34dc369
  16:     0x560cbfb969b0 - std::thread::local::LocalKey<T>::with::h6aad474042249cd8
  17:     0x560cbfb926ff - tokio::runtime::thread_pool::worker::Context::run_task::h0205d63632eef786
  18:     0x560cbfb919ae - tokio::runtime::thread_pool::worker::Context::run::h4d1ffb63402bc56c
  19:     0x560cbfb9966b - tokio::macros::scoped_tls::ScopedKey<T>::set::h948f9a7e6e4c22ef
  20:     0x560cbfb9140c - tokio::runtime::thread_pool::worker::run::h2ad3722576d6694e
  21:     0x560cbfb95439 - tokio::loom::std::unsafe_cell::UnsafeCell<T>::with_mut::h0c0a6e6e04726100
  22:     0x560cbfb9555b - tokio::runtime::task::harness::Harness<T,S>::poll::h01f71bc729e6cdcb
  23:     0x560cbfb8a298 - tokio::runtime::blocking::pool::Inner::run::h4b76ae400a65d8f5
  24:     0x560cbfb9a25c - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::h8c1e74afd8363ea7
  25:     0x560cbfb8d3bf - core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once{{vtable.shim}}::h50a132585e9d20ea
  26:     0x560cbfbc8e23 - std::sys::unix::thread::Thread::new::thread_start::h17b4aae352c54ef4
  27:     0x7f8bae31fff2 - start_thread
  28:     0x7f8bae3a2bfc - clone3
  29:                0x0 - <unknown>

My structure is that /etc/nixos/configuration.nix is a symlink to /root/nixos/machines/gaming/configuration.nix which is https://codeberg.org/davidak/nixos-config/src/branch/master/machines/gaming/configuration.nix (with few uncommitted updates)

opened by davidak 8