Cannot run SketchyBar if configuration is execeutable symbolic link

[vkravets]

In case of nix all config files are symlink. The SketcyBar check if config file is executable (and it will be false in case of symlink, even if target is executable) and try to set the execute permission and it's fail since it's a nix )))

It seems issue is arising here

SketchyBar/src/misc/helpers.h

Line 427 in 4aa602a

bool is_executable = buffer.st_mode & S_IXUSR;

and this code for executable symlink won't return true

I don't have knowladge of c++ to fix this, so please aware of the issue related to symlinked configuration

in my case I've fixed it, by manualy configure launchctl service using following changes at my configuration and don't using the nix-darwin service for the integration

    launchd.user.agents.sketchybar = {
      path = [ pkgs.sketchybar ] ++ [ pkgs.sketchybar-app-font ] ++ [ config.environment.systemPath ];
      serviceConfig.ProgramArguments = [ "${pkgs.sketchybar}/bin/sketchybar" ] ++ ["--config" "${self}/sketchybar/sketchybarrc"];
      serviceConfig.KeepAlive = true;
      serviceConfig.RunAtLoad = true;
    };

Where self it's my flake configuration inherits to system configuration and to home-manager configuration via specialArgs and extraSpecialArgs.

Note: nix-darwin solution works since create the service using real path to configuration, not symlink

[neversad-dev]

@vkravets I encountered the same issue, and here’s how I resolved it:

I moved my entire Sketchybar configuration (including the sketchybarrc file and all associated shell scripts) under a central config directory. Then, I symlinked the whole directory with the following line in my Home Manager configuration:

home.file.".config/sketchybar".source = ./config;

You can check out my setup here for reference: nix-setup/home/darwin/sketchybar/default.nix

Hope this helps!

[mariovagomarzal]

I have encountered a similar problem trying to configure Sketchybar with Home-Manager. I've tried @neversad-dev approach of symlinking the directory:

{
  pkgs,
  config,
  ...
}: let
  # Sketchybar package to use.
  sketchybar = pkgs.sketchybar;
in {
  home.packages = [sketchybar];

  # Sketchybar configuration directory.
  home.file.".config/sketchybar" = {
    source = ./config;
    recursive = false;
  };

  # Add Sketchybar to the user's launchd agents.
  launchd.agents.sketchybar = {
    enable = true;
    config = {
      Label = "sketchybar";
      ProgramArguments = [
        "${sketchybar}/bin/sketchybar"
      ];
      RunAtLoad = true;
      KeepAlive = true;
    };
  };
}

Then, inside the config folder I have the following (executable) script:

#!/bin/bash

# Bar properties.
bar=(
  height=39
  shadow=on
  margin=30
  color=0xff9b9b9b
)

sketchybar --bar "${bar[@]}"

sketchybar --update
echo "Sketchybar configuration loaded."

However, when rebuild the Home-Manager configuration, Sketchybar shows the default bar:

Any idea on what's going wrong?