From 099b312df628105d6059daad24e369795349d09b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rope <fredrik@nordhammer.it>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 14:08:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] common: set home-manager.backupFileExtension for safe
 activation

Stylix on the media server tries to manage files (GTK config,
fontconfig, etc.) that already exist, causing HM activation to fail.
Setting backupFileExtension lets HM move conflicts to .hm-bak.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 common.nix | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/common.nix b/common.nix
index 9f8780d..1ecca88 100644
--- a/common.nix
+++ b/common.nix
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
   # Home Manager #
   home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
   home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
+  home-manager.backupFileExtension = "hm-bak";
   home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
   home-manager.users.fred = import ./home-manager/fred.nix;