.dotfiles

Prerequisites

Requires gnu/stow for dotfiles management.

Essentials:

# pacman -S paru stow

In addition, following dependencies are required:

• BSPWM:

$ paru -S bspwm sxhkd rofi dunst feh polybar xidlehook thunar kitty polkit-gnome picom networkmanager neovim maim i3lock arandr xclip

• hyprland:

$ paru -S hyprland wofi waybar dunst wlogout polkit-gnome ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd thunar kitty swww swaync swaylock-effects networkmanager neovim gamemode cliphist btop hyprshot

Some generic packages:

# paru -S zsh mpv exa refind nwg-look-bin meld git code hyprshot fd fzf

Manual installations and configurations

• Install oh-my-zsh
• Change default shell to zsh:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

• Change default theme using nwg-look utility in hyprland

Home location

dotfiles home location:

~/.dotfiles

Steps for backing up dotfiles

Backup dotfiles like this:

cp -R ~/.config/waybar ~/.dotfiles/waybar/.config

Using gnu/stow link the dotfiles under ~/.dotfiles like this:

stow --adopt waybar

Viola, waybar configuration files have been backed up. ~/.config/waybar should contain only the symlinks to your git managed dot files.