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
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# Voculinux for Nix
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A flake that builds Voculinux against nixpkgs: GTK 3, PyGObject and the
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AppIndicator typelib come from nixpkgs, and `pywhispercpp` — which nixpkgs
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does not package — is built from its PyPI sdist (it vendors whisper.cpp and
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pybind11). Every host tool the app probes for (`xdotool`, `wtype`, `ydotool`,
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`wl-clipboard`, `xclip`, `xsel`, `xprop`, `setxkbmap`, `ibus`, `gdbus`,
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`notify-send`, `paplay`, `aplay`) is wired onto PATH, so the wrapped binary
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behaves like a deb/rpm install with Recommends present.
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## Try it
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```bash
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nix run github:VocaHQ/vocalinux
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```
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or install into a profile:
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```bash
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nix profile install github:VocaHQ/vocalinux
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```
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## NixOS
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```nix
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{
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inputs.voculinux.url = "github:VocaHQ/vocalinux";
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outputs = { nixpkgs, voculinux, ... }: {
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nixosConfigurations.host = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
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modules = [
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voculinux.nixosModules.voculinux
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{
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programs.voculinux.enable = true;
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users.users.you.extraGroups = [ "input" "uinput" ];
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}
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];
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};
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};
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}
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```
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`hardware.uinput` (enabled by the module) covers `/dev/uinput`, which ydotool
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and the evdev backend's keyboard clone need. `input` group membership is a
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per-user decision — it grants read access to every keyboard and pointer
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device, the same trade-off `install.sh` documents. X11 sessions need neither
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and can skip the group lines entirely.
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## Home Manager
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```nix
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{
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inputs.nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
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inputs.home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
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inputs.home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
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inputs.voculinux.url = "github:VocaHQ/vocalinux";
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outputs = { nixpkgs, home-manager, voculinux, ... }: {
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homeConfigurations.you = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
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pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
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modules = [
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voculinux.homeManagerModules.voculinux
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{ programs.voculinux.enable = true; }
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];
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};
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};
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}
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```
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Home Manager on NixOS still needs the system-side pieces above (the NixOS
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module handles `hardware.uinput`; group membership stays per-user). On a
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non-NixOS host, `nix profile install` plus the equivalent udev rule and group
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membership from your distro does the same job — see docs/INSTALL.md.
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## Scope
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- Default engine whisper.cpp plus the `[vad]` extra (ONNX Runtime) are built
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in. The `vosk`, `whisper`, `parakeet` and `faster_whisper` extras are not
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packaged (PyTorch footprint / not in nixpkgs).
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- `pywhispercpp` is built with `GGML_NATIVE=OFF` — a portable baseline rather
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than `-march=native`, so binaries can move between machines.
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