From 26ffcc40535828e4baa9e9d3b03763feae3022d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Gardling <titaniumtown@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:55:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] change default terminal emulator to ghostty

---
 home-manager/gui.nix             |  4 ++--
 home-manager/progs/alacritty.nix |  4 ++++
 home-manager/progs/ghostty.nix   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 home-manager/progs/niri.nix      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 home-manager/progs/ghostty.nix

diff --git a/home-manager/gui.nix b/home-manager/gui.nix
index b476db6..6bd9943 100644
--- a/home-manager/gui.nix
+++ b/home-manager/gui.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 {
   imports = [
     ./no-gui.nix
-    ./progs/alacritty.nix
+    # ./progs/alacritty.nix
+    ./progs/ghostty.nix
     ./progs/emacs.nix
     # ./progs/gpt4all/gpt4all.nix
     # ./progs/trezor.nix # - broken
@@ -162,7 +163,6 @@
   };
 
   home.sessionVariables = {
-    TERMINAL = "alacritty";
     BROWSER = "zen";
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [
       pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/alacritty.nix b/home-manager/progs/alacritty.nix
index 3b91dcf..63484a2 100644
--- a/home-manager/progs/alacritty.nix
+++ b/home-manager/progs/alacritty.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 { pkgs, ... }:
 {
+  home.sessionVariables = {
+    TERMINAL = "alacritty";
+  };
+
   programs.alacritty = {
     enable = true;
     package = pkgs.alacritty;
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/ghostty.nix b/home-manager/progs/ghostty.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f9b68f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home-manager/progs/ghostty.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ pkgs, ... }:
+{
+  # https://mynixos.com/home-manager/option/programs.ghostty
+  programs.ghostty = {
+    enable = true;
+    enableFishIntegration = true;
+    settings = {
+      theme = "Adventure";
+      background-opacity = 0.7;
+    };
+  };
+
+  home.sessionVariables = {
+    TERMINAL = "ghostty";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/home-manager/progs/niri.nix b/home-manager/progs/niri.nix
index 5fffe85..2e99dac 100644
--- a/home-manager/progs/niri.nix
+++ b/home-manager/progs/niri.nix
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
         "Mod+O".action = toggle-overview;
 
         # open a terminal
-        "Mod+T".action = spawn "${pkgs.alacritty}/bin/alacritty";
+        "Mod+T".action = spawn config.home.sessionVariables.TERMINAL;
 
         # lock the screen
         "Mod+X".action = spawn "${pkgs.swaylock}/bin/swaylock";