ghostty: colors

README.md

@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Browser: Firefox 🦊 (actually [Zen Browser](https://github.com/zen-browser/des
 
 Text Editor: [Doom Emacs](https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs)
 
-Terminal: [alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)
+Terminal: [ghostty](https://ghostty.org/)
 
 Shell: [fish](https://fishshell.com/) with the [pure](https://github.com/pure-fish/pure) prompt
 
-WM: [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) (KDE on my desktop)
+WM: [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri)
 
 ### Background
   - Got my background from [here](https://old.reddit.com/r/celestegame/comments/11dtgwg/all_most_of_the_backgrounds_in_celeste_edited/) and used the command `magick input.png -filter Point -resize 2880x1920! output.png` to upscale it bilinearly

home/profiles/gui.nix

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 {
   imports = [
     ./no-gui.nix
-    # ../progs/ghostty.nix
-    ../progs/alacritty.nix
+    ../progs/ghostty.nix
     ../progs/emacs.nix
     # ../progs/trezor.nix # - broken
     ../progs/flatpak.nix

home/progs/alacritty.nix

@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-{ pkgs, ... }:
-{
-  home.sessionVariables = {
-    TERMINAL = "alacritty";
-  };
-
-  programs.alacritty = {
-    enable = true;
-    package = pkgs.alacritty;
-    settings = {
-      # some programs can't handle alacritty
-      env.TERM = "xterm-256color";
-
-      window = {
-        # using a window manager, no decorations needed
-        decorations = "none";
-
-        # semi-transparent
-        opacity = 0.90;
-
-        # padding between the content of the terminal and the edge
-        padding = {
-          x = 10;
-          y = 10;
-        };
-
-        dimensions = {
-          columns = 80;
-          lines = 40;
-        };
-      };
-
-      scrolling = {
-        history = 1000;
-        multiplier = 3;
-      };
-
-      font =
-        let
-          baseFont = {
-            family = "JetBrains Mono Nerd Font";
-            style = "Regular";
-          };
-        in
-        {
-          size = 12;
-
-          normal = baseFont;
-
-          bold = baseFont // {
-            style = "Bold";
-          };
-
-          italic = baseFont // {
-            style = "Italic";
-          };
-
-          offset.y = 0;
-          glyph_offset.y = 0;
-        };
-
-      # color scheme
-      colors =
-        let
-          normal = {
-            black = "0x1b1e28";
-            red = "0xd0679d";
-            green = "0x5de4c7";
-            yellow = "0xfffac2";
-            blue = "#435c89";
-            magenta = "0xfcc5e9";
-            cyan = "0xadd7ff";
-            white = "0xffffff";
-          };
-
-          bright = {
-            black = "0xa6accd";
-            red = normal.red;
-            green = normal.green;
-            yellow = normal.yellow;
-            blue = normal.cyan;
-            magenta = "0xfae4fc";
-            cyan = "0x89ddff";
-            white = normal.white;
-          };
-        in
-        {
-          inherit normal bright;
-          primary = {
-            background = "0x131621";
-            foreground = bright.black;
-          };
-
-          cursor = {
-            text = "CellBackground";
-            cursor = "CellForeground";
-          };
-
-          search =
-            let
-              foreground = normal.black;
-              background = normal.cyan;
-            in
-            {
-              matches = {
-                inherit foreground background;
-              };
-
-              focused_match = {
-                inherit foreground background;
-              };
-            };
-
-          selection = {
-            text = "CellForeground";
-            background = "0x303340";
-          };
-
-          vi_mode_cursor = {
-            text = "CellBackground";
-            cursor = "CellForeground";
-          };
-        };
-
-      cursor = {
-        style = "Underline";
-        vi_mode_style = "Underline";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-}

home/progs/ghostty.nix

@@ -1,12 +1,64 @@
-{ pkgs, ... }:
+{ ... }:
 {
   # https://mynixos.com/home-manager/option/programs.ghostty
   programs.ghostty = {
     enable = true;
     enableFishIntegration = true;
+
+    # custom palette ported verbatim from the previous alacritty config
+    # (poimandres-ish). lives in ~/.config/ghostty/themes/poimandres and is
+    # selected by `theme = "poimandres"` below.
+    themes.poimandres = {
+      palette = [
+        "0=#1b1e28"
+        "1=#d0679d"
+        "2=#5de4c7"
+        "3=#fffac2"
+        "4=#435c89"
+        "5=#fcc5e9"
+        "6=#add7ff"
+        "7=#ffffff"
+        "8=#a6accd"
+        "9=#d0679d"
+        "10=#5de4c7"
+        "11=#fffac2"
+        "12=#add7ff"
+        "13=#fae4fc"
+        "14=#89ddff"
+        "15=#ffffff"
+      ];
+      background = "131621";
+      foreground = "a6accd";
+      cursor-color = "a6accd";
+      cursor-text = "131621";
+      selection-background = "303340";
+      selection-foreground = "a6accd";
+    };
+
     settings = {
-      theme = "Adventure";
-      background-opacity = 0.7;
+      theme = "poimandres";
+
+      # font
+      font-family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font";
+      font-size = 12;
+
+      # window
+      window-decoration = false;
+      window-padding-x = 10;
+      window-padding-y = 10;
+      window-width = 80;
+      window-height = 40;
+
+      # semi-transparent background
+      background-opacity = 0.90;
+
+      # cursor
+      cursor-style = "underline";
+
+      # keep one daemon alive so subsequent launches (e.g. niri Mod+T) are
+      # instant instead of paying GTK + wgpu init each time. relies on the
+      # dbus-activated systemd user service that the HM module wires up.
+      gtk-single-instance = true;
     };
   };
 

home/progs/niri.nix

@@ -115,8 +115,12 @@ in
 
         "Mod+O".action = toggle-overview;
 
-        # open a terminal
-        "Mod+T".action = spawn config.home.sessionVariables.TERMINAL;
+        # open a terminal — pass --working-directory=home so the gtk-single-instance
+        # daemon doesn't keep handing back whatever cwd the focused window has.
+        "Mod+T".action = spawn [
+          config.home.sessionVariables.TERMINAL
+          "--working-directory=home"
+        ];
 
         # lock the screen
         "Mod+X".action = spawn (lib.getExe pkgs.swaylock);