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The fork takes its own name everywhere a user can see it: binaries (voculinux, voculinux-gui), desktop entry, autostart, tray, D-Bus namespace (com.voculinux.Voculinux, no alias for the old name), config/data/cache dirs, single-instance lock, IBus engine identity, tray icons, resource prefixes, VOCULINUX_* environment names, and the update-checker user agent. The internal Python module stays vocalinux and the distribution metadata keeps the upstream URLs as provenance. On first run a previous Vocalinux install's config.json, custom dictionary, and portal restore token are copied once into the new locations (new config always wins, no merge, no write-back); models re-resolve through the pinned-checksum download path. An offline naming-sweep test proves no old-name strings remain on user-visible surfaces outside the allowlist. Refs #18
Voculinux for Nix
A flake that builds Voculinux against nixpkgs: GTK 3, PyGObject and the
AppIndicator typelib come from nixpkgs, and pywhispercpp — which nixpkgs
does not package — is built from its PyPI sdist (it vendors whisper.cpp and
pybind11). Every host tool the app probes for (xdotool, wtype, ydotool,
wl-clipboard, xclip, xsel, xprop, setxkbmap, ibus, gdbus,
notify-send, paplay, aplay) is wired onto PATH, so the wrapped binary
behaves like a deb/rpm install with Recommends present.
Try it
nix run github:VocaHQ/vocalinux
or install into a profile:
nix profile install github:VocaHQ/vocalinux
NixOS
{
inputs.voculinux.url = "github:VocaHQ/vocalinux";
outputs = { nixpkgs, voculinux, ... }: {
nixosConfigurations.host = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
modules = [
voculinux.nixosModules.voculinux
{
programs.voculinux.enable = true;
users.users.you.extraGroups = [ "input" "uinput" ];
}
];
};
};
}
hardware.uinput (enabled by the module) covers /dev/uinput, which ydotool
and the evdev backend's keyboard clone need. input group membership is a
per-user decision — it grants read access to every keyboard and pointer
device, the same trade-off install.sh documents. X11 sessions need neither
and can skip the group lines entirely.
Home Manager
{
inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
inputs.home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
inputs.home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
inputs.voculinux.url = "github:VocaHQ/vocalinux";
outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, voculinux, ... }: {
homeConfigurations.you = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
modules = [
voculinux.homeManagerModules.voculinux
{ programs.voculinux.enable = true; }
];
};
};
}
Home Manager on NixOS still needs the system-side pieces above (the NixOS
module handles hardware.uinput; group membership stays per-user). On a
non-NixOS host, nix profile install plus the equivalent udev rule and group
membership from your distro does the same job — see docs/INSTALL.md.
Scope
- Default engine whisper.cpp plus the
[vad]extra (ONNX Runtime) are built in. Thevosk,whisper,parakeetandfaster_whisperextras are not packaged (PyTorch footprint / not in nixpkgs). pywhispercppis built withGGML_NATIVE=OFF— a portable baseline rather than-march=native, so binaries can move between machines.