diff --git a/home/Northstar/xenia.nix b/home/Northstar/xenia.nix
index b0374f43..dea47959 100644
--- a/home/Northstar/xenia.nix
+++ b/home/Northstar/xenia.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-{pkgs, ...}: {
+{pkgs, ...}: let
+  rot8 = pkgs.callPackage ../desktop/pkgs/rot8 {};
+in {
   imports = [
     ../env
     ../tui
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@
   home.username = "xenia";
   home.homeDirectory = "/home/xenia";
   home.stateVersion = "22.11";
-  home.packages = with pkgs; [home-manager];
+  home.packages = with pkgs; [home-manager rot8];
   programs.bash.bashrcExtra = ''
     source $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh
   '';
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
     enable = true;
     tray = {enable = false;};
   };
+  fonts.fontconfig.enable = true;
 
   wayland.windowManager.sway = {
     config = {
@@ -37,9 +40,17 @@
           bg = "~/nixos/wallpaper.jpg fill";
         };
       };
+      gaps = {
+        inner = 5;
+        top = 5;
+        bottom = 5;
+        left = 20;
+        right = 20;
+      };
       startup = [
         {command = "dunst";}
         {command = "waybar";}
+        {command = "rot8";}
       ];
     };
   };
diff --git a/home/default.nix b/home/default.nix
index e1be0058..ec4c97d8 100644
--- a/home/default.nix
+++ b/home/default.nix
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-{...}: {imports = [./env ./gui ./tui];}
+{...}: {
+  imports = [./env ./gui ./tui];
+  fonts.fontconfig.enable = true;
+}
diff --git a/home/desktop/pkgs/rot8/default.nix b/home/desktop/pkgs/rot8/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0556e840
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/desktop/pkgs/rot8/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  rustPlatform,
+}:
+rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
+  pname = "rot8";
+  version = "7ed926f6d94a999cd2cb702af9f3de0f566095b1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "efernau";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    hash = "sha256-i+VLVA/XKZiFPEeFHR3CpZKi8CWA/tiaZJerciqQHJ0=";
+  };
+
+  cargoHash = "sha256-BoBuc3YkVdAR+gZZf5WxxRj/LCsBNSW7FSSU2OnNPgM=";
+}
diff --git a/home/desktop/sway.nix b/home/desktop/sway.nix
index d6bc30d8..b8d1cc7b 100644
--- a/home/desktop/sway.nix
+++ b/home/desktop/sway.nix
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ in {
         names = ["FiraCode Nerd Font" "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono"];
         size = 12.0;
       };
-      gaps = {
-        inner = 5;
-        outer = 20;
-      };
       bars = [];
       keybindings = lib.mkOptionDefault {
         "${modifier}+Return" = "exec ${term}";