My Dotfiles!

My dotfiles.

I use Arch, btw. 😎

Using this Repo

If you'd like, you can just plagiarize these. I (hopefully) do not have anything private saved here.

To use these dotfiles, first install all the applications in the next sections, then clone this repo into your $HOME dir and follow the steps in the Symlinking section.

Initial setup

Required Applications

This is a safe/good-enough "default" install command for system setup on a fresh Arch install. There are a few packaages here that are required for other things to work, for example lua for neovim configs. I'm pretty sure these are all the programs that I need need. I purposely excluded apps like firefox and slack, from this command. Anything that is installed through the AUR (Slack, Spotify, etc) is likely non-critical to get your arch install to function propoerly. However, there's definitely packages that I use a lot that I've forgotten to include in this README and it's gonna be a massive pain in the ass for future machine setups.

It's very redundant to include the base and base-devel packages for a command is meant to be run after the initial install of your OS. Furthermore, packages like NetworkManager should also be installed during the arch install process, same with critical device drivers for things like GPUs. However, installing things like bluetooth drivers as needed shouldn't be an issue for most people.

sudo pacman -Syu \
    base \ 
    base-devel \
    7zip \
    fish \
    fzf \
    git \
    lua \
    luarocks \
    tmux \
    neovim \
    ripgrep \
    unzip \
    stow \
    fish \
    yazi

AUR

If yay isn't installed yet then like, install it dude.

I've seen a friend of mine using a different AUR package manager, but yay still works fine for me, and I see no reason to change.

Fonts

<pacman or yay> -S \
    ttf-arimo-nerd \
    ttf-bigblueterminal-nerd \
    ttf-0xproto-nerd \
    ttf-proggyclean-nerd \
    noto-fonts \
    noto-fonts-cjk \
    noto-fonts-emoji

Check for installed fonts with fc-list.

The noto fonts are needed for rendering other languages.

0xProto is the best looking nerd font for the terminal I've seen so far, but I might change my mind again some day.

Git config

I keep forgetting these commands:

git config --global user.name <my_name>
git config --global user.email <my_email>
git config --global core.editor "nvim" # Or "vim"

Symlinking and running stow

I have a few submodules so make sure to run:

git submodule update --init

Notes for Submodules:

• If I ever nest submodules on a personal project, someone end me.
• Some of these submodules are really, really small, like my waybar and hyprland confs.
  • Are they worth having as submods?

Once you have all the repos, run this from the home dir

stow -d .dotfiles -S fish hypr my-scripts nvim rofi tmux waybar

After running stow, make sure to open a tmux session and use the command prefix + I (capital i, as in Install) to fetch the tmux plugins.

Otherwise, you will have no plugins. And you will be sad.

Hyprland

Don't read this.

I'm reading this

Here's what I'm using for Hyprland. Not all of these are required to get it to work, nor are all of these the best choices.

If you really want to use hyprland, ignore what I have here, and go to the official docs.

sudo pacman -S \
brightnessctl \
dunst \
kitty \
rofi \
pavucontrol \
xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland \
qt5-wayland \
qt6-wayland \
hypridle \
hyprlock \
hyprpolkitagent \
network-manager-applet \
jq  \
swww  \
grim \
slurp \
thunar \
thunderbird \
sddm \
waybar \
hyprland

Notes for Hyprland:

• jq is just a json pasrer, but I need it for my monitor scripts
• swww is being renamed to awww see this blog post. Eventually, the extra/ package should change
• I tried wayclip for integrating nvim yank into my clipboard. Didn't work. Hate it. Need to find something else bc it's annoying af right now.
• The archinstall script also installs uwsm. I don't think it's necessary (maybe I'll eat my words some day, but I've been fine without it so far).
• Is there an advantage to using the AUR versions of hyprland, hyprlock, etc.?
• The developer of kitty is like, definitely a furry right? I would love to go back to Wezterm, but I had trouble getting it to work well on Hyprland

Future Work/To Do

• Make waybar stop crashing
• Setup GTK and QT theming. I found a nice tutorial here
• Add alternate colorschemes like in this
• Modify the Arch wiki's automatic timezone script to use connectivity-change instead of up
• Learn how to make eww widgets and connect them to my waybar
  • Better power menu
  • Notification list
  • Maybe a wrapper for pulseaudio/widget for controling volume and choosing audio devices? (probably a pain in the ass)
• Customize dunst
• Customize rofi
• Customize sddm?
  • Probably waaaay more trouble than it's worth. I rarely ever see my sddm screen
• Edit NeoVim Dashboard
• Make my fast fetch prettier :3

I don't have sick screenshots of my setup because my ricing is still very WIP :(