Option to change font size

[jevy]

I would like to override the font size in /modules/sway/hm.nix what's the best practice to do so? Is it a nix override?

[danth]

Unfortunately it's not possible to change that without editing the file directly.

I will add an option so that you can set stylix.targets.sway.fontSize to your preferred size.

[jevy]

I'm trying to think if there is a more sustainable for others to make changes to the defaults without you having to make options for everything. Is https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays not possible to change one of the settings?

[danth]

Overlays only work for packages, NixOS/Home Manager are using modules for configuration.

The module equivalent of overrides would be mkForce, but it can't override let bindings, so you have to apply mkForce to every place where the value is used instead. In the case of Sway this would be wayland.windowManager.sway.config.fonts.size and lib.stylix.sway.bar.fonts.size, but it gets more complicated if the value is repeated in lots of places.

I suppose another route is to disable stylix.targets.sway and import your own copy of the module in its place, which would allow you to edit the code freely. Of course that would mean that you don't receive updates if the original module is changed.

[dwarfmaster]

In general I think we need to figure out a way to handle fontsizes, to avoid this kind of hardcoding. Maybe creating creating some sort of nomenclature for font sizes that the user could set, so that the different modules could pick the relevant size automatically 🤔