Personnal dotfiles for *Nix/Linux

Installation is automated. To run the installation script:

./install

To check what gets installed, check out the file install.conf.yaml

Remember to register the timers to systemctl !

Default directories are created following XDG conventions, see man 1 xdg-user-dir for more info.

~~ You can change the default .cache directory to another disk if it's taking up too much space on your main disk by exporting $XDG_CACHE_HOME in your /etc/profile ~~

run xdg-user-dirs-update --set CACHE <path_to_cache_dir> to update the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file, which is checked by XDG for the paths of the different default directories

General Application Notes

• Tmux Terminal multiplexer

• Rofi Application launcher (replacement for dmenu)

  • To add applications to the menu entries, you can add a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

• Bspwm Tiling window manager

• Sxhkd Input manager for bspwm

• Polybar Bar with easy configuration The cpufreq module needs the cpupower package to run

• Dunst Notification server with icon and transparency support Service might crash when no display environment variable is accesible

• Fish A mordern day shell. Using fisher as a package manager for it

• Crontab There are no crontab implementation installed by default on Arch. The recommanded tool to manage recurring chronological tasks is Systemd's Timers system. Install a <job>.timer systemd Unit file as well as a <job>.service to ~/.config/systemd/ user/ and start the .timer job with: systemctl --user enable timer.

• pywal I use python-pywal to generate colorschemes that match the dominant colors used in my wallpaper.

• picom Compton seems abandoned and has been replaced by picom

• RAW Files

  • GIMP To enable RAW image editing with GIMP, install nufraw which adds support.

  • Nautilus RAW/ARW files don't have thumbnails natively under Nautilus. Install ufraw-thumbnailer to add thumbnail generation for these file types.