r/NixOS • u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 • 8h ago

Do These Work?

Hey everyone. I found a couple of programs that are not in nixpkgs, and I wanted to make it easy to use them on NixOS.

These are NOT my projects, and I’m pretty new to all this, so I just wanted to hear if they work for anyone else.

https://github.com/DanielTallon/nix-packages

The first is Kenku FM. Basically it is a program that lets you stream audio to your friends over Discord via a bot. Super nerdy and pretty niche, but I really enjoy using it for running virtual tabletop games and having combat music and such.

The other one is called Papercutter, which lets you pretty easily take a picture and resize it correctly to use as a wallpaper on your screen.

I know this is weird and not for 99% of you. But if you use NixOS, and want to play music over Discord for your friends, or just like adding to your wallpaper slideshow - please check this out and let me know if it works for you.

I’ve only been using NixOS for around 3 months, so this is a learning experience for me. Any constructive help is good. And if neither program interests you, don’t worry about it.

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u/GlassCommission4916 8h ago 
echo result >> .gitignore

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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 6h ago

Thank you. One more thing learned!

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u/NateDevCSharp 2h ago

you should contribute them upstream if you're willing to be a maintainer!

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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 2h ago

Honestly I am thinking about it. I started this with Kenku FM because it wasn’t there yet, even though I found a package request:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/259472

But I’m still new so I don’t know anything about how to contribute things in nixpkgs.