dotfiles

It's just my dotfiles

Currently the main programs I use are:

• WM: bspwm
• Keybindings: sxhkd
• Status Bar: polybar
• Compositor: picom
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: zsh (no frameworks)
• Text Editor: neovim
• Application Launcher: dmenu, rofi
• Notifications: dunst
• Display Manager: lightdm GDM
• Browser: firefox, brave, chromium
• File Manager: Nautilus (GUI), vifm (TUI)
• PDF Viewer: Zathura, evince
• Music: MPD + ncmpcpp Spotify

Shell Setup

Based on Atlassian's guide to storing dotfiles

# install dependencies (assumes arch-based system, for other systems use the relevant package manager)
sudo pacman -S zsh neovim npm git eza unzip

# if only need read-only
git clone --bare https://github.com/zaxutic/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
# or if need to push commits as well (me) (requires ssh key configured with github)
git clone --bare [email protected]:zaxutic/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg

alias dgit="git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME"
dgit checkout
# **remove any conflicting existing files and rerun previous command if necessary**

dgit config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
dgit config --local pull.rebase false

dgit submodule init
dgit submodule update

# skip past the error messages to let neovim auto install vim-plug and plugins
vim
# quit vim and restart vim to install lsp plugins, then quit again

chsh # choose /bin/zsh or wherever zsh is located

# restart shell

Desktop Setup

Assumes the steps to clone the repo as above have been followed

# basic
sudo pacman -S bspwm sxhkd polybar dmenu rofi conky dunst picom feh xss-lock ttc-iosevka rofi-emoji

# other
sudo pacman -S firefox nautilus vifm zathura evince redshift nextcloud-client flameshot clipmenu deepin-calculator thunderbird kdeconnect
paru -S spotify spicetify-cli networkmanager-dmenu-git

# TODO: finish this

Plans

• Migrate from Polybar to eww (and maybe use it for some other stuff as well)
• Maybe migrate from BSPWM to Hyprland
• Migrate away from Dunst
  • wired-notify and linux_notification_center seem nice, but unfortunately neither of them support Wayland at the moment, which might become a problem. There's a couple Wayland notification daemons (mako and fnott), but they don't seem as flexible as I want. Maybe this is an opportunity to make my own