.dotfiles

All my Linux configuration files. I use this to configure my entire system.

I started out with X server (with AwesomeWM) but recently switched to Wayland (with Hyprland) to try it out.

🐧 System setup

Operating system: Arch Linux
Display servers:
- X, or Xorg, or X11 (call it what you want)
- Wayland
Window managers:
- AwesomeWM (on X)
- Hyprland (on Wayland)
Compositors:
- picom (on X)
- Hyprland (Wayland window managers are also compositors)
System/status bars:
- AwesomeWM widgets (on X)
- Waybar (on Wayland)
Notification daemons:
- naughty (built into AwesomeWM, on X)
- SwayNotificationCenter (on Wayland)
Shell: Zsh (with Starship for my prompt)
Application launchers:
- Rofi (on X):
  - rofi-emoji
  - rofi-calc)
- Wofi (on Wayland)
Terminals:
- Kitty
- Alacritty
Text/code editor: Neovim (using kickstart)
Audio:
- Drivers and interface: ALSA
- Sound server: PipeWire
- GUI apps:
  - PulseAudio Volume Control for simple audio control
  - ~~QjackCtl for advanced audio stuff~~
Theming:
- Catpuccin Mocha for my color scheme (I also use Rigel sometimes)
- LXAppearance to configure my GTK theme
- Qt5ct for apps that use QT toolkit (KDE apps)

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Anyway, here are the desktop apps I most commonly use:

Browser: Firefox
Communication:
- Messaging: Signal
- Discord client: Webcord
File managers:
- yazi (terminal-based, previously used ranger)
- Dolphin
- Nemo
Images
- Drawing: Krita
- Editing: Gimp
- Viewing: nsxiv
Network:
- Synchronization: Syncthing
- VPN: OpenVPN
Office:
- ONLYOFFICE for my Office suite
- Joplin for taking notes (uses Markdown, has Vim motions)
Screenshots: Flameshot
Torrent: qBittorrent
Videos:
- Editing: Kdenlive
- Viewing: mpv and vlc
- YouTube client: FreeTube
Wallpaper setters:
- feh (on X)
- swww (on Wayland)

I did not make all of this myself. A lot of stuff comes from these amazing people:

BrodieRobertson: Automatic sourcing of aliases (Youtube: Brodie Robertson)
Derek Taylor: Offers great advice on how to manage dotfiles (Youtube: DistroTube)
Phantas0s: Solid Zsh setup (without omz) and overall nice directory structure (Blog: The Valuable Dev)
ThePrimeagen: Tailored tmux/vim/fzf tools for a highly productive development workflow (Twitch, Youtube, Youtube 2)
typecraft: Mainly stole his Hyprland setup (wofi, waybar) (Youtube: typecraft)