Welcome ~/

This repository contains my personal Linux dotfiles.
They are often (speak: all the time) a work in progress and may or may not work for you.
I recently switched from X11 to Wayland using the River compositor.

Dependencies

Some of these are not hard dependencies and can be changed in the config files. This is more of a list for me.
Install with pacman -S --needed <PACKAGE>.

Packages used for these dotfiles (in no particular order):

wayland polkit waybar zsh zsh-syntax-highlighting network-manager-applet zathura zathura-pdf-poppler wl-clipboard xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr swaybg pipewire wireplumber pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack helvum mpd mpc ncmpcpp grim swaylock mako alacritty brightnessctl reflector exa bat duf neovim capitaine-cursors neofetch pcmanfm-gtk3 sxiv xdg-user-dirs ttf-roboto-mono-nerd swayidle go

Other Packages I use:

ack grep alsa-utils biber texlive-most perl-clone flake8 nmap ntfs-3g openbsd-netcat powertop ruby-rouge tig tree traceroute ufw zip unzip wget wireshark-cli networkmanager-openvpn mesa gvfs sed udisks2 dosfstools ntfs-3g dnsutils net-tools asciidoctor gzip htop openssh sshpass rsync tlp udiskie moreutils

AUR Packages

river rofi-lbonn-wayland wdisplays librewolf-bin ctpv-git

The configs for awesome, picom, and kitty are outdated, if you want to use them, make sure to install these packages as well.

awesome kitty rofi slock flameshot picom-git (AUR)

Installation

Clone the repo into your home directory.

git clone https://github.com/sihensel/dotfiles.git

There is no wallpaper included, the window manager looks for ~/wallpapers/wall.jpg.
This can be configured in theme.lua for awesome or process.sh for river.

Install Script

The script install.sh places symlinks to the local repo, so all files can stay in one place.
You might want to ignore that, this is just for my personal setup.

./install.sh   # or
./install.sh -p /path/to/dotfiles/

Note: I use the xdg-user-dirs package to get rid of most of the standard XDG directories. See the user-dirs.dirs file for details.

Configure Neovim Plugins

The keybinds are listed in init.lua.
Plugins are managed via Lazy.nvim. The Plugin manager installs itself and all plugins automatically.
LSP clients are also installed automatically via Mason.

The following packages are exteneral dependencies, install them with your package manager:

fd ripgrep fzf jq tree-sitter tree-sitter-cli

Also install the Python provider for Neovim.

pip install neovim

Firefox userChrome.css

This theme is heavily based on Dook97's config with a few additions. It is intended to use with the tridactyl extension (Install the firefox-tridactyl package for Arch, and restart Firefox twice).
When using Librewolf (or any other Firefox fork I guess), install the tridactyl extension from their Github repo.

Go to about:config:

1. Set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true
2. Set browser.compactmode.show to true
3. Also set extensions.pocket.enabled to false while we're at it
4. For my setup:
   1. browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true
   2. browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu to false
   3. browser.translations.automaticallyPopup to false
   4. browser.translations.enable to false
   5. browser.translations.panelShown to false

Go to the Customize Toolbar menu (under More Tools) and set density to compact.
Enable a dark theme in the settings, I use this Gruvbox theme.
Copy the chrome directory to the root directory of your Firefox profile. Check about:profiles for the path to your profile.

The custom folder icon for the bookmarks toolbar is from icons8.com.

Slack Theme

Gruvbox Slack theme. Paste into Preferences > Themes.

#282828,#3c3836,#D65D0E,#1D2021,#504945,#FBF1C7,#83C07C,#fb4934,#282828,#FBF1C7

Pacman Hook

Make sure to install the pacman-contrib package, then copy the file to /etc/pacman.d/hooks.

sudo mkdir /etc/pacman.d/hooks
sudo cp clear_cache.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks

Enable screen sharing for Chrome and Slack

For Chrome, visit chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer and chrome://flags/#ozone-platform-hint.
Start Chrome with google-chrome-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.

Start Slack with: slack --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer.