I just want to know from you how you (or how you would) pass options to packages you develop with flakes.

I am currently writing a widget bar using Astal and then import the flake in my NixOS flake and use the package.default output in home.packages. I’d like to also style this bar according to my Stylix theme, how do you do something like this?

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    13 days ago

    I don’t think there is a way to give the config during runtime or while calling the binary of the app, I will keep trying something, one thing I think that may help is creating that file during the build process, but I just don’t have enough knowledge to do that.

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      13 days ago

      one thing I think that may help is creating that file during the build process

      This is certainly an option, but I would only use it as a last resort as it means recompiling the project every time you want to change the theme. It’s quite easily done though, you can use overrideAttrs on the package in your home-manager module to pass in the desired colors.

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        11 days ago

        I am seeing this repo: https://github.com/Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel/blob/master/nix/module.nix

        this uses astal to create the said interface but is also configuring the settings like how I want, except it uses json and ts for it where I have scss and lua, otherwise I just can’t wrap my head around how i can translate it to my needs. Maybe I don’t need to edit the files in the build, I could just edit or update the astel.scss using nix as well like how its done there using builtins and other functions, can you help me here, if you’ve got time.

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          3 days ago

          I don’t know anything about astal, and not much about lua, so I’m afraid I can’t help you here.

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            2 days ago

            Its alright! I am kinda trying to figure it out myself. But thankyou for the initial push