home-manager-install.md

Home Manager

If your linux installation uses Systemd (Fedora, Ubuntu, and Manjaro all use Systemd) then you can install the nix package manager and home-manager in order to manage spicetify. First, to install nix for all users on your system, run the following command and follow the interactive prompts:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

More information on nix installation can be found at https://nixos.org/download.html Then, restart your terminal/shell and run the following command to enter a shell with home-manager and git installed. We'll be running the rest of these commands from inside this new shell. Type exit to leave it, if you need.

nix-shell -p home-manager git

Next, run the following commands to make a new home manager configuration for spicetify in your current directory.

mkdir ~/home-manager-config && cd ~/home-manager-config
nix flake init --template github:the-argus/spicetify-nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes
sed "0,/unknown_username/{s/unknown_username/$(whoami)/}" -i flake.nix
sed "0,/unknown_hostname/{s/unknown_hostname/$(hostname)/}" -i flake.nix
git init --initial-branch=main
git add .
home-manager switch --flake . --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes

The spotify that's in your path (or the new spotify that appeared in your app launchers) should now be a spiced version of spotify, complete with dribbblish and some custom apps and extensions. Run spotify & disown to launch it, or edit the spicetify.nix file to customize it. If you have any problems, also check out the README.md file.