Core Profile — Shared User Profile Options

Purpose

The core.profile module declares a set of shared user-profile options that act as a single source of truth for values consumed by other modules — desktop environments, shell companions, and display managers — rather than hardcoded literals.

Entry Point

• Main file: modules/home-manager/core/profile.nix
• Supporting file: modules/home-manager/core/default.nix — imports the module automatically

Architecture / Services / Scope

The module only declares options; it does nothing on its own. Consumers use config.core.profile.* to read the values.

Options

core.profile.avatar.path

Path to user avatar image.

core.profile.location.secret

SOPS secret name used for Noctalia location address.

core.profile.wallpaper.directory

Path to wallpaper image directory.

core.profile.avatar.path

Path to the user avatar image. Used by the Noctalia desktop shell (via programs.noctalia.settings.shell.avatar_path) to display the user picture in the bar and session UI.

core.profile.wallpaper.directory

Directory containing wallpaper images.

Consumers:

core.profile.location.secret

Name of a SOPS secret whose decrypted value becomes the Noctalia location.address. When unset, the location block is omitted from the Noctalia config entirely. At activation time, the decrypted secret is appended to a base Noctalia config TOML (generated by the module) and written to ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml — the clear-text address never lands in the repo or Nix store.

Secrets

• core.profile.location.secret — name of a SOPS secret (not a literal value) whose decrypted content supplies the Noctalia location address at activation time.

Usage Example

{ ... }: {
  core.profile = {
    avatar.path = "/home/user/.face";
    wallpaper.directory = "/home/user/Pictures/Backgrounds";
    location.secret = "noctalia-location";
  };
}

Operational Notes / Assumptions

• The GNOME azwallpaper extension consumes core.profile.wallpaper.directory via dconf-extensions.nix (home/shared/desktop/gnome/).