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Cake day: September 14th, 2023

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  • wayland.windowManager.sway.config.keybindings = let
        # ...
        screenshot = with pkgs; writeShellScriptBin "screenshot.sh" ''
              DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
              if [ "$1" = "full" ]; then
                ${grim}/bin/grim ~/Pictures/shot_$DATE.png
                ${libnotify}/bin/notify-send "saved full screenshot to shot_$DATE.png"
              elif [ "$1" = "full-copy" ]; then
                ${grim}/bin/grim - | ${wl-clipboard}/bin/wl-copy -t image/png
                ${libnotify}/bin/notify-send "copied full screenshot"
              elif [ "$1" = "sel" ]; then
                ${grim}/bin/grim -g "$(${slurp}/bin/slurp)" ~/Pictures/sel_$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S").png
                ${libnotify}/bin/notify-send "saved selection to sel_$DATE.png"
              elif [ "$1" = "sel-copy" ]; then
                ${grim}/bin/grim -g "$(${slurp}/bin/slurp)" - | ${wl-clipboard}/bin/wl-copy -t image/png
                ${libnotify}/bin/notify-send "copied screenshot"
              else
                printf "Invalid argument: '$1'\n"
              fi
              '';
      in lib.mkOptionDefault { # ...
    

    This is in my Home Manager configuration. I don’t think this is that bad, it’s just kinda messy. If you can’t tell, it’s a script for taking screenshots, embedded in my configuration.






  • If you want a challenge that may or may not be worth it, try configuring NixOS. And I mean really get into it, try to configure everything using Nix. It’s very time consuming but not boring, each configuration varies person to person (i.e the way you organize it) so it can be quite fun if you have the time.

    Also nixpkgs (what Nix and NixOS use) has like, all the packages