Tilde doesn't work in Include

[BennyDeeDev]

Paths starting with ~ in include directives don't work:

include "~/.config/niri/extra.kdl"

You could use the absolute path as a workaround, but I will include a PR that fixes it.

[HigherOrderLogic]

#3225

[BennyDeeDev]

#3225

I see you were quicker! One thing worth noting: std::env::home_dir() is
deprecated since Rust 1.29. std::env::var_os("HOME") avoids that. My PR
also has tests if wanted 👍🏻

[HigherOrderLogic]

std::env::home_dir() is deprecated since Rust 1.29

No it's not?

[BennyDeeDev]

std::env::home_dir() is deprecated since Rust 1.29

No it's not?

Nevermind, it was deprecated and came back again. My bad.

[Sempyos]

Kindly please don't make issues for features, we have GitHub discussions for this next time

[BennyDeeDev]

It seemed more like a bug to me than a feature, that's why I made an issue

[Acters]

I am confused, why do you need to do:

include "~/.config/niri/extra.kdl"

when you can just do:

include "extra.kdl"

It defaults to the same directory that the niri config is at, which the default is the ~/.config/niri directory. Which in turn doing ../../ takes you up two levels to the ~/ directory, you can easily do a spawn-sh command to edit the config at startup too. Which I am using to toggle the touchpad since that is a feature Niri does not have natively.

include "touchpad-state.kdl"
binds {
    Mod+Ctrl+F24 { spawn-sh "~/.config/niri/toggle-touchpad.sh"; }
}

#!/bin/sh
set -eu

dir="$HOME/.config/niri"
on="$dir/touchpad-on.kdl"
off="$dir/touchpad-off.kdl"
state="$dir/touchpad-state.kdl"

mkdir -p "$dir"

# Create templates if missing
if [ ! -f "$on" ]; then
  cat >"$on" <<'KDL'
input {
  touchpad {
    tap
    natural-scroll
    dwt
  }
}
KDL
fi

if [ ! -f "$off" ]; then
  cat >"$off" <<'KDL'
input {
  touchpad {
    off
  }
}
KDL
fi

# Initialize symlink if missing or not a symlink
if [ ! -L "$state" ]; then
  ln -sfn "$(basename "$on")" "$state"
fi

# Toggle
cur="$(readlink "$state" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ "$cur" = "$(basename "$off")" ]; then
  ln -sfn "$(basename "$on")" "$state"
else
  ln -sfn "$(basename "$off")" "$state"
fi

[BennyDeeDev]

I am confused, why do you need to do:

include "~/.config/niri/extra.kdl"
when you can just do:

include "extra.kdl"

This was just an example from me. The point of tilde expansion is referencing files outside the niri config directory e.g shared theme. This is standard behavior in basically every config system for a reason.

[b0o]

This would be very useful. In my case, I want to include a file from ~/.nix-profile/ and don't want to hardcode my home directory path. The ../../ workaround does work, but it's not preferable.

[Acters]

This would be very useful. In my case, I want to include a file from ~/.nix-profile/ and don't want to hardcode my home directory path. The ../../ workaround does work, but it's not preferable.

That is true, haha, but at the same time, I have also shown that an on-startup script is also another work-around.

 // you can actually have this script anywhere
spawn-sh "~/.config/niri/startup-script.sh"
include "custom_config.kdl"

This gives you two options:

#!/bin/sh
set -eu

cat >"custom_config.kdl" <<KDL
include "$HOME/.nix-profile/custom_config.kdl"
KDL

OR have the file copied over:

#!/bin/sh
set -eu

cp ~/.nix-profile/custom_config.kdl ~/.config/niri/custom_config.kdl

Either option would work for now.