.dotfiles

Install and Usage

Only 2 packages are needed to get started, Git to clone these configs, and GNU stow to symlink files to the appropriate place on the local machine

1. Install git & stow, if not already installed

$ sudo pacman -S git stow

2. Fork this repo and Clone the configs into $HOME/.dotfiles

$ git clone git@github.com:{{GitHub Username Here}}/.dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles && cd $HOME/.dotfiles

3. The Configs in this repo are broken up by catagory. Pick and choose which catagories you want by directory (see stow -h)

$ stow configs shell scripts # e.g. will symlink all config files in ./configs, ./shell, & ./scripts 

or use the ./stowAll.sh shell script in the repo root (see ./stowAll.sh -h)

$ chmod +x ./stowAll.sh && ./stowAll.sh

Note: stow will not replace a file that is already present, but it will complain to stdout. Remeber to back up those files incase you'd don't like these configs, then you can use stow/stowAll.sh again.

$ mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak && ./stowAll.sh

4. A script to help install packages, is found in $HOME/.local/bin/install_pkgs with accompanying text files, with lists of packages, in the $HOME/.local/share/ directory
   • fedora_all.txt
   • fedora_sway.txt
   • fedora_devel.txt
   • arch_pkgs.txt
   • brew_pkgs.txt (for macos and HomeBrew)

$ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/install_pkgs && install_pkgs -d "arch" -f ~$HOME/.local/arch_pkgs.txt

Packages

1. sway
2. swaylock
3. swayidle
4. sworkstyle
5. waybar
6. mako
7. wev
8. wofi

Useful Utilities

1. playerctl
2. pulseaudio (pactl)
3. pavucontrol
4. light (or brightnessctl)
5. grim
6. slurp

Applications

1. foot
2. kitty
3. Ranger
4. zsh
5. oh-my-zsh
6. neovim
7. firefox-wayland
8. qutebrowser

Applets (tray)

1. blueman-applet
2. gammastep-indicator
3. nm-applet (Network Manager)

Notes

Fedora specific

1. qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld to play DRM (netflix etc.) on qutebrowser
   • This is a finicky process, I usually just install chromium-freeworld. It may not work immeadiately. Not sure why.

Arch specific

1. chromium-widevine → will install dependencies to play DRM on arch

PyPi Packages

1. autotiling

Other Tips

1. add the following to /etc/environment to use java applications like PyCharm

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP" = "sway" ] ; then
    export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
fi