yabai module in nix-darwin now generally available
By Calum MacRae
May 13, 2020
As of ~2 hours ago, a Nix module to install & configure yabai is now generally
available on the master branch of nix-darwin.
I submitted a PR for a module I'd been using personally for a while which I finally decided to share.
If you follow the master branch on your macOS system, after a nix-channel --update,
you can now manage yabai like so
{
services.yabai = {
enable = true;
package = pkgs.yabai;
enableScriptingAddition = true;
config = {
focus_follows_mouse = "autoraise";
mouse_follows_focus = "off";
window_placement = "second_child";
window_opacity = "off";
window_opacity_duration = "0.0";
window_border = "on";
window_border_placement = "inset";
window_border_width = 2;
window_border_radius = 3;
active_window_border_topmost = "off";
window_topmost = "on";
window_shadow = "float";
active_window_border_color = "0xff5c7e81";
normal_window_border_color = "0xff505050";
insert_window_border_color = "0xffd75f5f";
active_window_opacity = "1.0";
normal_window_opacity = "1.0";
split_ratio = "0.50";
auto_balance = "on";
mouse_modifier = "fn";
mouse_action1 = "move";
mouse_action2 = "resize";
layout = "bsp";
top_padding = 36;
bottom_padding = 10;
left_padding = 10;
right_padding = 10;
window_gap = 10;
};
extraConfig = ''
# rules
yabai -m rule --add app='System Preferences' manage=off
# Any other arbitrary config here
'';
};
}
At the moment, you have to specify the services.yabai.package option. The package I submitted
to nixpkgs is in the unstable channel already, so you can just specify pkgs.yabai as the value
if you follow nixpkgs-unstable.
To go along with the yabai package & module, I submitted similar PRs for spacebar.
The package is already available in nixpkgs-unstable, and the module in nix-darwin will soon follow.
Enjoy!
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- May 13, 2020
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