GTK and QT Themes

I prefer to set these in my home-manager configuration so that is what these options will be for.

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If you are using a theme that is avaliable in a NixOS package then just pass in the package and the name*. Else you can only pass in name, being the name of the folder that is locally avaliable in ~/.themes

TIP

The name of the theme can be gotten by running nix build nixpkgs#capitaine-cursors(replace with your package name), then enter the result directory and browse until you find the directory with the name of the theme you want, copy that exact directory name into the name field.

home.nix

  gtk = {
    enable = true;
    iconTheme = {
      name = "oomox-gruvbox-dark";
      package = pkgs.gruvbox-dark-icons-gtk;
    };
    cursorTheme = {
      name = "capitaine-cursors-white";
      package = pkgs.capitaine-cursors;
    };
    theme = {
      name = "Awesthetic-dark";
    };
  };

To enable the QT theme that matches the GTK theme just add:

  qt = {
    enable = true;
    platformTheme = "gtk";
  };

And to use XDG popups that corrospond with the GTK theme you can add the XDG portals information to configuration.nix like this:

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There should also be a way to add these portal settings to home.nix but I haven't used that yet.

  xdg = {
    portal = {
      enable = true;
      extraPortals = with pkgs; [
        xdg-desktop-portal
        xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
      ];
      config.common.default = "*";
    };
  };