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Package the Zen browser for Nix, and set it as the default one
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# NOTE: I manually package the Zen browser for myself. | |
# | |
# HACK: This does, however, mean that I will need to manually | |
# tweak the `version` and `hash` here if I wish to update it. | |
# This produces the package (derivation): | |
(let version = "1.0.0-a.37"; in pkgs.appimageTools.wrapType2 { | |
inherit version; | |
name = "zen"; # NOTE: This will be the name of the executable in $PATH. | |
src = pkgs.fetchurl { | |
url = "https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/download/${version}/zen-specific.AppImage"; | |
hash = "sha256-QE7wA/QksNoQOFVmsV4g0qw+abz8jOUxBHsGR/s2Afc="; | |
}; | |
}) | |
# This makes the browser the default one. | |
xdg = { | |
enable = true; | |
desktopEntries."zen-browser" = { | |
name = "Zen Browser"; | |
genericName = "Web Browser"; | |
exec = "zen"; # NOTE: Ideally should be `"${pkgs.aeon.zen}/bin/zen"`, but that's for snowfall. | |
terminal = false; | |
mimeType = [ | |
"text/html" | |
"text/xml" | |
]; | |
}; | |
}; |
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