Emma Thorpe
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Dvorak is a variant of the "us" XKB layout, not a layout of its own: there is no symbols/dvorak file, so "dvorak" fails to compile. In the greetd/cage greeter the keymap comes solely from XKB_DEFAULT_*, so the failure left the greeter with no keymap and therefore no keyboard input at all (mouse unaffected). Split it into XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us + XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=dvorak. The same mistake in the Sway session (home/sway.nix) was masked: the default us keymap compiled and the failing override was silently dropped, so the session ran QWERTY despite the dvorak setting. Use xkb_variant there too so it is actually Dvorak. console.keyMap = "dvorak" (workstation.nix) is unaffected -- that is a kbd console map, a separate subsystem where "dvorak" is valid. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
nixfiles
NixOS / nix-darwin / home-manager configuration for all hosts, built from a single flake.
Hosts
Defined in the host table in flake.nix:
| Configuration | System | Machine |
|---|---|---|
lyrathorpe-mbp |
aarch64-linux |
MacBook Pro (Apple Silicon, Asahi) |
lyrathorpe-t400 |
x86_64-linux |
ThinkPad T400 — install notes |
lyrathorpe-macpro31 |
x86_64-linux |
Mac Pro 3,1, desktop — install notes |
emmathorpe-edaas |
x86_64-linux |
Work WSL box (NixOS-WSL) |
lyrathorpe-mac |
aarch64-darwin |
macOS (nix-darwin) |
Shared layers: lyrathorpe/home (home-manager: shell, git, editor),
system/modules/common-nixos.nix (all NixOS hosts), and
system/modules/laptop.nix (the physical laptops).
Applying
# NixOS
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#<configuration>
# Darwin
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#lyrathorpe-mac
Login / greeter
Graphical (Sway) hosts log in through a Wayland greeter — greetd running
ReGreet inside the cage kiosk compositor — configured centrally in
lyrathorpe/swaywm.nix, gated on
features.swayDesktop.enable. The greeter is forced to Dvorak to match the
console and Sway session. Hosts with features.swayDesktop.enable = false (the
WSL work box) keep plain TTY login. The target account needs a password
(passwd <user>) before it can log in.
MacBook (Asahi) firmware
The MBP host references system/modules/firmware/ for Apple peripheral
firmware (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth). Those blobs are not redistributable, so the
directory is gitignored and a clean checkout will not build lyrathorpe-mbp
until it is populated out-of-band.
Copy the firmware extracted during the Asahi install (from
/etc/nixos/firmware on the freshly-installed machine, or re-extract per the
Asahi NixOS docs) into
system/modules/firmware/ before rebuilding that host.
CI
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml gates nixfmt
formatting and evaluates every NixOS and Darwin host configuration on push/PR.