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Frequently Asked Questions

Here we keep a list of common issues and questions, and all the answers to them. Feel free to add more!

How do I know what programs are supported?

Section titled “How do I know what programs are supported?”

You can find programs supported through home-manager here, and NixOS modules here.

How do I set catppuccin.enable for everything I use?

Section titled “How do I set catppuccin.enable for everything I use?”

You can set catppuccin.enable globally through home-manager here, and NixOS modules here.

What versions of NixOS and home-manager are supported?

Section titled “What versions of NixOS and home-manager are supported?”

We support both the unstable branch and latest stable. This is done through two branches in our repository:

  • main: for unstable users
  • release-x.x: for the latest stable release (i.e., release-25.05)

How do I fix the error: ... during evaluation because the option 'allow-import-from-derivation' is disabled

Section titled “How do I fix the error: ... during evaluation because the option 'allow-import-from-derivation' is disabled”

Some ports need to read and/or manipulate remote resources, resulting in Nix performing IFD. We try to avoid this where possible, but sometimes we need to use it. Check out our tracking issue to see what ports are affected.

How do I fix the error: a '...' with features {} is required to build '...'?

Section titled “How do I fix the error: a '...' with features {} is required to build '...'?”

See the above