dotfiles

These are my dotfiles for my Hyprland rice, using Arch Linux

More info below images.

Special thanks

• adi1090x: https://github.com/adi1090x for his amazing work with customization
• /r/unixporn: http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn and their discord
• The Nord theme creators at https://www.nordtheme.com

Configuration

To use my config, there is a script ./setup_script.sh that will symlink all the config files in this repo to ~/.config. Warning! This will remove any existing files and folders in ~/.config that are also in this repo.

Packages

Hyprland

paru -S hyprland-nvidia-git

Read the Hyprland wiki: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Getting-Started/Master-Tutorial/

Utilities

• Notifications: paru -S dunst
• Screenshots: paru -S grimblast-git slurp grim
• Screen sharing: paru -S pipewire wireplumber xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland-git
• Fix fonts and find new fonts: paru -S nerdfix
• Authentication agent: paru -S polkit polkit-gnome gnome-keyring
• Qt Wayland support: paru -S qt5-wayland qt6-wayland

Login/display manager: SDDM

paru -S sddm-git sddm-theme-deepin-git

Bootloader

• rEFInd with Ursa-Major theme
• paru -S refind intel-ucode efibootmgr
• sudo refind-install
• Boot options: root=/dev/nvme0n1p1 rw quiet splash loglevel=4 vga=current udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nowatchdog audit=0 initrd=intel-ucode.img

Zsh

• paru -S zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions zsh-syntax-highlighting
• Oh-My-Zsh
• powerlevel10k

Pacman/paru

• Get paru from here
• In /etc/pacman.conf:
  • Uncomment Color
  • Set ParallelDownloads = 20
  • Enable the multilib repo

Vim

paru -S vim neovim powerline

Firefox

• paru -S firefox
• Make Firefox ignore GTK theme:
  • Go to about:config, set widget.content.gtk-theme-override to something like Breeze:light (make sure Breeze theme is installed).
• Right click immediately picks the first option, fix:
  • Go to about:config, set ui.context_menus.after_mouseup to true.
• Disable full screen warning:
  • Go to about:config, set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0.
• Enable GFX webrender:
  • Go to about:config, set gfx.webrender.all to true.

Terminal

paru -S kitty-git kitty-shell-integration-git kitty-terminfo-git

File manager

• paru -S thunar thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman gvfs ntfs-3g tumbler
• paru -S ranger highlight w3m
• Add inode/directory=thunar.desktop to ~/.config/mimeapps.list under [Default Applications]

Media

• paru -S vlc vlc-pause-click-plugin
• paru -S qt6-tools (needed for qdbus commands)
• paru -S pipewire-pulse pulseaudio pulseaudio-ctl pulseaudio-alsa alsa-lib pavucontrol

Fix pulseaudio volume adjust delay

• https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Delay-when-changing-volume/m-p/1843731#M2065
• Set enable-deferred-volume to no (and uncomment) in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf.

Fix pulseaudio pop on idle

• https://askubuntu.com/a/1266632/852424

Networking

paru -S networkmanager networkmanager-applet nm-connection-editor

Themes

• paru -S nordic-polar-theme-git nordic-theme-git
• Nord theme in vim
• paru -S qt5ct qt6ct
• paru -S capitaine-cursors
• paru -S lxappearance to set the global theme, icon theme and cursor theme.

Spotify

• paru -S spotify spicetify-cli spicetify-themes-git
• Fix permissions: Solution
• Set spotify data file to folder on different drive: Solution

Waybar

paru -S waybar-hyprland-git

Mouse driver (Logitech G502)

paru -S piper-git

GPU Drivers

paru -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils

Enable DRM KMS to eliminate tearing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#DRM_kernel_mode_setting. Don't forget the pacman hook!

CPU settings

• paru -S cpupower
• Set governor='performance' in /etc/default/cpupower to change the default governor.
• Enable the service at boot: sudo systemctl enable cpupower.service

Other

• paru -S git npm python2 python ruby php xclip neofetch cava kcolorchooser ksysguard spectacle simplescreenrecorder htop gparted numlockx redshift xcape powerline powerline-common powerline-fonts polkit-kde-agent light gucharmap
• Stop rtkit-daemon log spam:
  • Create /etc/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service.d/override.conf

   [Service]
   LogLevelMax=notice
  

Fonts:

• ttf-bitstream-vera
• ttf-dejavu
• ttf-droid
• ttf-font-awesome
• ttf-hack
• ttf-inconsolata
• ttf-liberation
• ttf-material-design-icons
• ttf-roboto
• ttf-unifont
• noto-fonts
• noto-fonts-emoji
• powerline-fonts
• otf-font-awesome
• gnu-free-fonts