Does not read ~/.config/oni/config.js symlink

[Nekroze]

My dotfiles are all managed in a git repo and the real paths are symlinks into that repo.

When ~/.config/oni/config.js is a symlink it appears to load the default config instead of the file the symlink is pointing too.

[oni-bot[bot]]

Hello and welcome to the Oni repository! Thanks for opening your first issue here. To help us out, please make sure to include as much detail as possible - including screenshots and logs, if possible.

[josemarluedke]

I have been doing exactly that with the latest version of Oni and it works as expected. You can take a look in my symlink here: https://github.com/josemarluedke/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L91

You might want to check if there is already a config file, if there is, remove it and then create the symlink.

[josemarluedke]

Also worth mentioning the recent changes of the configuration to TypeScript instead of JavaScript: https://github.com/onivim/oni/wiki/Migrating-Configuration-to-TypeScript

[badosu]

Are you using the latest version? In older installations the config live lives in a different place (~/.oni/config.js)

[Nekroze]

Hello,

Thanks for the welcome and swift responses.

I am using v0.3.2 however I was not aware of the typescript change. I just grabbed the minimal config from the wiki a couple of days ago and it said to place that in ~/.config/oni/config.js perhaps nix-home does something other than a simple simlink like you are doing. I will close this issue and migrate to typescript and only re-open if I get more information on the problem should it persist.

Much appreciated!

[parkerault]

Whoops, that's left over from before the config file was switched to tsx. I updated the wiki so nobody else will be led astray. 😄

[Nekroze]

This issue persists for me. I have switched format and am using my dotfiles causing this kind of symlink and when I load up oni it has the default theme and configs still but I have solarized dark enabled. If I copy the file into place then it works:

┬─[nekroze:~/dotfiles]
╰─>$ ls -al ~/.config/oni/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 nekroze nekroze 4096 Apr 25 11:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 nekroze nekroze 4096 Apr 25 11:04 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nekroze nekroze   70 Apr 25 11:04 config.tsx -> /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/nekroze/nix-home/.config/oni/config.tsx
drwx------  2 nekroze nekroze 4096 Apr 25 11:05 GPUCache/
-rw-------  1 nekroze nekroze   69 Apr 25 11:05 Preferences
-rw-r--r--  1 nekroze nekroze  275 Apr 25 11:05 Settings
┬─[nekroze:~/dotfiles]
╰─>$ head -n 3 ~/.config/oni/config.tsx 

import * as React from "/opt/Oni/resources/app/node_modules/react"
import * as Oni from "/opt/Oni/resources/app/node_modules/oni-api"

[Nekroze]

I managed to get it working, I had to launch Oni and then edit the config file and then force save it with :w! because it is a symlink and thus readonly, then Oni loaded the config and it all worked.

I guess then the problem is more that the config is not getting automatically compiled/loaded in this circumstance and I have to do something to force that to happen.