NixOS + Hyprland - Themed Configuration

A beautiful, minimal NixOS configuration with Hyprland, inspired by vyrx-dev's dotfiles with Nord color scheme.

✨ Features

🎨 Theming

• Nord color scheme throughout (blues, grays, pastels)
• Rofi launcher with Nord theme
• Waybar with custom Nord styling
• Kitty terminal with Nord colors
• Auto-login directly to Hyprland (no TTY login screen)

🖥️ Desktop Environment

• Hyprland - Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
• Waybar - Minimalist status bar
• Rofi - Application launcher
• Swaync - Notification center
• SWWW - Wallpaper daemon

🛠️ Tools

• Kitty - GPU-accelerated terminal
• Starship - Minimal shell prompt
• ZSH with Oh-My-Zsh
• Neovim, VSCode - Text editors
• Modern CLI tools - eza, bat, ripgrep, fzf

🚀 Installation

Fresh NixOS Install:

# 1. Boot NixOS ISO and partition
wipefs -a /dev/sda
parted /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 1MiB 2MiB
parted /dev/sda -- set 1 bios_grub on
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 2MiB 512MiB
parted /dev/sda -- mkpart primary 512MiB 100%

mkfs.fat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 -L nixos /dev/sda3

mount /dev/disk/by-label/nixos /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/disk/by-label/boot /mnt/boot

# 2. Clone this config
nix-shell -p git --run "git clone https://git.cribdev.com/crib/nixos-config.git /mnt/etc/nixos"

# 3. Generate hardware config
nixos-generate-config --root /mnt --show-hardware-config > /mnt/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix

# 4. Install
nixos-install --flake /mnt/etc/nixos#cribnix

# 5. Reboot
reboot

You'll boot directly into Hyprland! No login screen needed.

⌨️ Keybindings

Modifier Key: SUPER (Windows key)

Applications

• SUPER + Return - Terminal (Kitty)
• SUPER + D - App Launcher (Rofi)
• SUPER + E - File Manager (Thunar)

Window Management

• SUPER + Q - Close window
• SUPER + V - Toggle floating
• SUPER + F - Fullscreen
• SUPER + J - Toggle split
• SUPER + M - Exit Hyprland

Navigation

• SUPER + Arrow Keys - Move focus
• SUPER + 1-9 - Switch workspace
• SUPER + SHIFT + 1-9 - Move window to workspace

Screenshots

• SUPER + SHIFT + S - Screenshot to clipboard
• Print - Screenshot to ~/Pictures

🎨 Customization

Colors

The Nord theme uses these colors:

• Background: #2e3440 (dark gray-blue)
• Foreground: #eceff4 (light gray)
• Accent: #88c0d0 (frost blue)
• Red: #bf616a
• Green: #a3be8c
• Yellow: #ebcb8b
• Blue: #81a1c1

To change colors, edit:

• home/waybar.nix - Status bar colors
• home/rofi.nix - Launcher colors
• home/kitty.nix - Terminal colors

Wallpapers

Place your wallpapers in ~/Pictures/wallpapers/:

mkdir -p ~/Pictures/wallpapers
# Add your wallpapers here

# Set wallpaper with swww
swww img ~/Pictures/wallpapers/yourwallpaper.jpg

Waybar

Customize the bar in home/waybar.nix:

• Change modules order
• Add/remove widgets
• Adjust colors and styling

Rofi

The launcher config is in home/rofi.nix:

• Change window size
• Adjust colors
• Modify behavior

🔄 Updating

# Update your config
cd ~/.config/nixos
git pull

# Rebuild system
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#cribnix

# Or use the alias
rebuild

📁 File Structure

nixos-config/
├── flake.nix              # Main flake
├── configuration.nix      # System config with auto-login
├── hardware-configuration.nix
├── modules/
│   ├── system.nix        # System packages
│   └── hyprland.nix      # Hyprland + Rofi setup
└── home/
    ├── home.nix          # User config
    ├── hyprland.nix      # Hyprland settings & keybinds
    ├── waybar.nix        # Status bar (Nord themed)
    ├── rofi.nix          # Launcher (Nord themed)
    └── kitty.nix         # Terminal (Nord themed)

🎯 Key Features

Auto-login

• No login screen or greeter
• Boots directly to Hyprland
• Configured in configuration.nix with greetd

Minimal & Fast

• Clean aesthetic inspired by vyrx-dev
• Smooth animations
• Low resource usage

Nord Theme

• Cohesive color scheme across all apps
• Easy to customize
• Professional appearance

🐛 Troubleshooting

Hyprland won't start

# Check logs
journalctl -xe | grep -i hypr
cat /tmp/hypr/*/hyprland.log

Want to disable auto-login?

Edit configuration.nix and remove the services.greetd section, then rebuild.

Colors not applying?

Make sure you've rebooted after the initial install. Some theme settings require a fresh session.

📚 Resources

• Hyprland Wiki
• Nord Theme
• vyrx-dev dotfiles (inspiration)
• NixOS Manual

🎉 Enjoy!

You now have a beautiful, themed Hyprland setup that auto-logs in and looks great out of the box. Customize it to make it your own!