ma awesome: refactor into module

makefu/1systems/vbob.nix

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { lib, config, pkgs, ... }:
 {
   krebs.build.host = config.krebs.hosts.vbob;
+  makefu.awesome.modkey = "Mod1";
   imports =
     [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
       ../.

makefu/2configs/base-gui.nix

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 with config.krebs.lib;
 let
   mainUser = config.krebs.build.user.name;
-  awesomecfg = pkgs.awesomecfg.full;
 in
 {
   imports = [ ];
@@ -36,14 +35,7 @@ in
   };
   # lid switch is handled via button presses
   services.logind.extraConfig = mkDefault "HandleLidSwitch=ignore";
-  nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
-    awesome = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.awesome (oldAttrs : {
-      postFixup = ''
-      cp ${awesomecfg}  $out/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
-      '';
-    });
-  };
-
+  makefu.awesome.enable = true;
   i18n.consoleFont = "Lat2-Terminus16";
 
   fonts = {

makefu/3modules/awesome-extra.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with config.krebs.lib;
+let
+  cfg = config.makefu.awesome;
+  out = {
+    options.makefu.awesome = api;
+    config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable imp;
+  };
+  api = {
+    enable = mkEnableOption "awesome custom config";
+    modkey = mkOption {
+      type = types.str;
+      description = "Modkey to be used";
+      default = "Mod4";
+    };
+    baseConfig = mkOption {
+      type = types.path;
+      description = ''
+        rc.lua file to be used as default
+        This module will use substituteAll to replace strings before writing to
+        /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua
+      '';
+      default = pkgs.awesomecfg.full;
+    };
+  };
+  imp = {
+    # TODO: configure display manager as well
+    nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
+      awesome = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.awesome (oldAttrs : {
+          postFixup = let 
+            rclua = pkgs.substituteAll {
+              src = cfg.baseConfig;
+              inherit (cfg) modkey;
+            };
+          in "cp ${rclua}  $out/etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua";
+      });
+    };
+  };
+in out

makefu/3modules/default.nix

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ _:
     ./snapraid.nix
     ./umts.nix
     ./taskserver.nix
+    ./awesome-extra.nix
   ];
 }
 

makefu/5pkgs/awesomecfg/full.cfg

@@ -83,13 +83,11 @@ vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, "$2%", 61, "BAT0")
 -- {{{ Variable definitions
 -- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
 -- beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")
--- ./qbx8r72yzaxpz41zq00902zwajl31b5h-awesome-3.5.6/share/awesome/lib/beautiful.lua
---
+
+-- @awesome@/share/awesome/lib/beautiful.lua
+-- beautiful.init("@awesome@/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")
+
 -- Find the default theme
-
---
--- beautiful.init("/nix/store/qbx8r72yzaxpz41zq00902zwajl31b5h-awesome-3.5.6/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")
-
 function find_default_theme()
   -- find the default lua theme in the package path
   for path in package.path:gmatch('([^;]+);') do
@@ -115,7 +113,7 @@ browser = "firefox"
 -- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
 -- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
 -- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
-modkey = "Mod4"
+modkey = "@modkey@"
 
 -- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
 local layouts =