dots-2.0

An updated, revised version of my dotfiles

Dotfiles for this post.

I started using eww as a bar so I wrote everything from scratch and took the opportunity to be more organized.

For the wallpaper dependent colorschemes use: .bscripts/wallset <path to wallpaper>.

The profile picture shown in the lockscreen can be changed by putting the desired image in ~/.face.

Please note that this rice was made for a single 1920x1080 monitor setup, If you have anything different than that you'll have to tweak some things on your own.

The picom fork used for animations might be a little unstable (animations got merged into the official picom repo now so we don't need a fork anymore yay). For any graphical glitches you may be having, toggle it off and on again with super+p.

Dependency list:

AUR packages

Just run this for this section (assuming you use yay):

yay -Sy acpi alsa-utils-git blueman brave-bin bspwm colorpicker dunst eww-git flameshot hsetroot imagemagick jq kitty light lxappearance mantablockscreen network-manager-applet pa-applet-git picom-git playerctl polkit-gnome polybar pqiv pulseaudio python3 rofi scrot sox spicetify-cli spotify sxhkd sysstat thunar tumbler ttc-iosevka-curly ttf-hack wmctrl wpgtk-git xclip xdotool xprintidle xorg xorg-xinit xorg-xwininfo --needed

If you're not using arch, this is the dependency list, install in wathever way you want:

• acpi
• alsa-utils
• blueman
• brave
• bspwm
• colorpicker
• dunst
• eww
• flameshot
• hsetroot
• imagemagick
• jq
• kitty
• light
• lm_sensors
• lxappearance
• mantablockscreen
• network-manager-applet
• pa-applet
• picom (yshui)
• playerctl
• polkit-gnome
• polybar
• pqiv
• pulseaudio
• python3
• rofi
• scrot
• sox
• spicetify-cli
• spotify
• sxhkd
• sysstat
• thunar
• tumbler
• ttc-iosevka-curly
• ttf-hack
• wmctrl
• wpgtk
• xclip
• xdotool
• xprintidle
• xorg
• xorg-xinit
• xwininfo

Other

• pop_report used in some scripts.

Optional

• Plasma-integration AUR package and chrome extension to better integrate media playing in brave with widgets (like having thumbnails of youtube videos show up in the left bar).

Please let me know if any packages are still missing.

Installing

Install process functions a little different since I refactored the whole repo, but it still includes a handy script that automates most things.

Run install.sh:

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Disclaimer: While this script does attempt to create a backup of all files that will be rewritten and asks what to do when a backup already exists, I do not take responsibility for any lost config files as consequence of running this script. You are strongly advised to read the insides of the script before running.

The install script should do the following changes to your files:

1. Move every file/folder that will be changed to ~/.rice-old in an attempt to create a backup
2. Link every folder/file in Configs to ~/.config/<folder/file>
3. Link Assets to ~/.config/rice_assets
4. Link Bscripts to ~/.bscripts
5. Link Walcache to ~/.cache/wal
6. Copy every font at ~/.local/share/fonts/ to Fonts
7. Link Fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts
8. Change permissions of all scripts in the repo to be executable

Additional steps for configuring a colorscheme based Gtk theme:

1. Run lxappearance
2. Select "FlatColor" in the widgets section

And that's it, this will make all your Gtk applications follow the colorscheme extracted from your wallpaper.

If you had previously installed this rice before the refactor PR merge, I'd advice you reinstall and then probably delete the following folders and their contents:

• ~/Documents/Sounds
• ~/Pictures/Important
• ~/Pictures/Wallpapers

All those files are now stored at ~/.config/rice_assets.

Updating

Since the install script now uses symbolic links instead of copied files, all you have to do to update your configs to the latest version is to update the repo with git pull.

Keybinds

Key combo	Action
Super+Return	Pause/Resume sxhkd
Control+Alt+W	Open browser (brave is default)
Control+Alt+T	Open terminal (kitty is default)
Control+Alt+F	Open file manager (thunar is default)
Super+P	Toggle picom
Super+Shift+E	Open rofi in drun mode (app launcher)
Alt+Tab	Windows-like window switcher using rofi
Super+Shift+Q	Show logout menu
Print	Take a screenshot (Saved to ~/Pictures/Screenshots and clipboard)
Super+Print	Same as above, but with 3 second delay
Control+Alt+C	Color picker, copies color at cursor to clipboard in HEX on click
Super+O	Locks the PC (PC suspends after 5 seconds of inactivity while locked)
Super+Space	Change keyboard layout (Cycles between us spanish and us english layouts)
Super+C	Close focused window
Alt+F4	Force closing focused window (for frozen programs)
Control+Period	Move focused window to next workspace
Control+Comma	Move focused window to previous workspace
Control+Alt+Period	Go to next workspace
Control+Alt+Comma	Go to previous workspace
Super+{1,2,3,4,5}	Jump to workspaces 1 through 5
Alt+Period	Raise the volume by 5% (Warning: No volume cap set, you really shouldn't go above 150%)
Alt+Comma	Lower the volume by 5%
Alt+M	Toggle mute volume
Alt+Shift+Period	Raise brightness by 5%
Alt+Shift+Comma	Lower brightness by 5%
Control+Alt+X	Raise monitor gamma by 5%
Control+Alt+Z	Lower monitor gamma by 5%
Control+Alt+E	Toggle status bar
Super+M	Toggle eww media control window
Super+S	Toggle monocle BSPWM layout
Control+Alt+Space	Toggle floating mode on focused window
Super+Shift+{K,J,H,L}	Move window
Super+{K,J,H,L}	Select window
Super+Alt+{K,J,H,L}	Grow focused window in desired direction
Control+Shift+{K,J,H,L}	Shrink focused window in desired direction
Super+{D,A}	Rotate BSPWM tree at node (clockwise/counterclockwise)
Alt+{D,A}	Rotate windows at node (clockwise/counterclockwise)
Super+E	Equalize window sizes
Super+F	Toggle fullscreen
Super+KP_Add	Raise window gaps by 5px
Super+KP_Subtract	Lower window gaps by 5px
Control+Alt+{K,J,H,L}	Preselect direction for next window
Control+Alt+A	Cycle through window layers (above, normal or below)

These are all the keybinds set in the ~/.config/bspwm/sxhkdrc file, however, if you are gonna use this as your daily driver, I highly encourage you to read that file in its entirity at least once, so you know what's going on behind the scenes.

Media keys should also work for controlling play/pause and changing volume.