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Okay, so Currently I am on Cinnamon and occasionally use Niri.

There are some KDE Apps that I found might be useful for my workflow. Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to configure them. They are currently stuck using Candy Icons while my GTK apps are using Mint-X and some of them have inexplicably started using a light theme instead of a dark theme.

I don't want to install the KDE desktop every time I want to configure my Qt themes, and would prefer a cross-platform solution. Ideally I could use a program (or a pair of programs) to set my themes for any environment. Without having to worry about settings or configurations for the specific DE or WM I'm using. But Right Now, I just want something that can configure Qt from within Cinnamon.

Things I've tried so far:
I installed Kvantum. I stopped trying to get it to work when I realized everything recommending it was from 5 years ago.
I installed Qt6CT. It had a notification at the top of the window saying it wasn't configured properly. I searched the environment variable name in Nix Options and added a line to my config. Adding the line did not remove the notice from the window when I re-opened it.
I then commented out Qt6CT and the associated option. The Option in question mentioned the program qtstyleplugins, which I then added after finding it in packages and added a line for the associated options. The implication was that Qt would start using the GTK theme automatically. It does not seem to have worked. After I post this, I am going to try rebooting to see if that does the trick.

Any advice or feedback is appreciated; thank you for taking the time to reply. Any noteworthy updates will be made as an edit.

So today I was trying to customize Ly, the display manager I'm using. Apparently, it's supposed to be done through a config in ~/.config/ly but the directory simply doesn't exist. The git repository says that the config is fully commented, so this development is pretty discouraging.

Does someone have ly customization working? Do you have any advice? Is there a way to generate a default config?

Thank you in advance.

Edit I've figured out the problem. The settings I want to change are in /etc/ly/config.ini but in Nix, that's just a symlink to a file in the Nix Store.

I am currently looking for how to enable the clock function.

Edit 2: The clock can be enabled with

services.displayManager.ly.settings = {
bigclock = true;
};

Ar first I tried setting it as en, as described in the ly documentation, but that did not work. I am now looking for further documentation on ly.settings.