Installation

Before you start

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR EXISTING .config FOLDER WITH YOUR DOTFILES BEFORE STARTING THE SCRIPTS FOR INITIAL INSTALLTION.

The installation script will create a backups from configurations of your .config folder that will be overwritten from the installation procedure and previous ML4W Dotfiles installation.

If possible, please create a snapshot of your current system if snapper or Timeshift is installed and available.

You can decide between the following packages:

• ML4W Dotfiles Main Release (latest tagged release)
• ML4W Dotfiles Rolling Release (main branch including the latest commits)

YouTube Video https://youtu.be/6B4Kf30CWLg

Installation

For Arco Linux users: Please install hyprutils first with yay -S extra/hyprutils

Please make sure that your system is up-to-date.

sudo pacman -Syu

Main Release

You can install the main release with the latest commits with your preferred AUR helper.

yay -S ml4w-hyprland

After the installation, you can start the setup with the command

ml4w-hyprland-setup

You can also combine both commands and confirm all confirmations automatically.

yay -S --noconfirm ml4w-hyprland && ml4w-hyprland-setup

** After running the installation of the ml4w-hyprland package, you have already installed a pure Hyprland system. You can start Hyprland from your Display Manager or with the command Hyprland from your tty. You can continue then the installation of the ML4W Dotfile in Hyprland.

Rolling Release (Latest Commits)

You can install the rolling release with the latest commits with your preferred AUR helper.

yay -S ml4w-hyprland-git

After the installation, you can start the setup with the command

ml4w-hyprland-setup

You can also combine both commands and confirm all confirmations automatically.

yay -S --noconfirm ml4w-hyprland-git && ml4w-hyprland-setup

For Arco Linux users: Please install hyprutils first with yay -S extra/hyprutils

Installation folder

The script will ask for an installation folder. Please enter a folder name without spaces. The script will create the folder for you and continue with the installation.

You can also install multiple versions of the ML4W Dotfiles in parallel in different folders. You can switch between the folders with the included activation script (only works with 2.9.5 or higher).

Installation with GIT (Rolling Release)

You can install the dotfiles by cloning the latest version (rolling release):

# 1.) Change into your Downloads folder (create the folder if not available)
cd ~/Downloads

# 2.) Clone the dotfiles repository into the Downloads folder
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles.git

# 3.) Change into the dotfiles/bin folder
cd dotfiles/bin

# 4.) Start the installation
./ml4w-hyprland-setup

Please note, that not all features will work, when you install the dotfiles from GIT.