Software preferences and settings.
TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD. Supports X and Wayland sessions.
https://github.com/fairyglade/ly
Sway (contracted from SirCmpwn's Wayland compositor [1]) is a compositor for Wayland designed to be fully compatible with i3.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway, https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki
Zsh is a powerful shell that operates as both an interactive shell and as a scripting language interpreter. While being compatible with the POSIX sh (not by default, only if issuing emulate sh), it offers advantages such as improved tab completion and globbing.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zsh
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Audacious is a free and advanced audio player. It is focused on audio quality and supports a wide variety of audio codecs, and is easily extensible through third-party plugins.
https://audacious-media-player.org/
Firefox is a popular open source graphical web browser from Mozilla.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox
Extensions:
Foot is a fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is an open source cross-platform video recording and live-streaming application. It provides an easy to pick up and extensible workflow with customizable scenes, volume mixers, transitions, filters and more.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Open_Broadcaster_Software
It's not possible yet on sway, see:
https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/15v29nf/does_a_swaywlroots_magnifying_glass_tool_exists/
Grab images from a Wayland compositor.
Also instal slurp: Select a region in a Wayland compositor
https://github.com/emersion/slurp
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Screen_capture#Wayland
.config/screenshot/take_full_screenshot.sh
.config/screenshot/take_region_screenshot.sh
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS.
https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
Install xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr, slurp, wf-recorder in order to get Screencast working in firefox and obs. You can test screen cast here:
https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WebRTC_screen_sharing
PipeWire is a new low-level multimedia framework. It aims to offer capture and playback for both audio and video with minimal latency and support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA and GStreamer-based applications.
See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePlumber
PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool ("mixer") for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of each playback stream separately.
https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/
Qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph
A simple font management application for GTK Desktop Environments.
https://github.com/FontManager/font-manager
Wofi is a launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
You must be a member of the input group to Keyboard State module. Don't forget reboot.
$ sudo usermod -aG input demitroiSee: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki
CLI calendar application.
https://github.com/pimutils/khal
Wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia.
https://github.com/sentriz/cliphist
NetworkManager is the standard Linux network configuration tool suite. It supports large range of networking setups, from desktop to servers and mobile and integrates well with popular desktop environments and server configuration management tools.
Edit sway dot files, check outputs with this command:
$ swaymsg -t get_outputsSee man 5 sway-output for more details.
To prevent the laptop from going into hibernation when the lid is closed, you have to configure ACPI events.
See:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management#ACPI_events
Edit sway dot files, check outputs with this command:
$ swaymsg -t get_outputsSee man 5 sway-input for more details.
Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland; it currently works on Sway and river.
https://github.com/emersion/mako
swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol.
File manager and desktop icon manager (Qt port of PCManFM and libfm).
https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt
A simple & lightweight desktop-agnostic Qt file archiver.
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Extensions:
.config/Code/User/keybindings.json .config/Code/User/settings.json .config/code-flags.conf
DBeaver Community is a free cross-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts, and everyone working with data.
Powerful, intelligent flash cards. Remembering things just became much easier.
The image viewer and screenshot tool for lxqt.
https://github.com/lxqt/lximage-qt
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Kdenlive is a powerful free and open source cross-platform video editing program made by the KDE community.
Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.
LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
In order to set the dark theme, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#LibreOffice_toolbars_unreadable_with_dark_Breeze/Plasma_5_theme
Qalculate! is a multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator. It is simple to use but provides power and versatility normally reserved for complicated math packages, as well as useful tools for everyday needs (such as currency conversion and percent calculation).
Let KeePassXC safely store your passwords and auto-fill them into your favorite apps, so you can forget all about them.
System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.
https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift
Tools to configure LXQt and the underlying operating system.
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config
Tools to configure LXQt and the underlying operating system.
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config
Tools to configure LXQt and the underlying operating system.
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config
ReadyMedia (previously MiniDLNA) is server software with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP clients. The MiniDLNA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ReadyMedia
Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenSSH
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T., often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs).[2] Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T.
Read this wiki entry for more context:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications
Install the themes breeze, breeze-gtk, papirus-icon-theme, deepin-icon-theme and ttf-hack-nerd. Also you have to install qt6ct and lxqt-config to config graphically the qt and gtk themes.
Set the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct enviroment variable globally by editing the file /etc/environment and then reboot.
$ sudo vim /etc/environment
$ sudo rebootOpen lxqt-config-appearance via terminal, in the Widget Style section select qt6ct-style in Qt Style combo box. In Icons Theme select Papirus-Dark, in Font section set the Font name to "Hack Nerd Font Mono", Style Normal and Point size 10, in Cursor select bloom and finally select Breeze-Dark in both GTK 3 and 4 Theme.
Open Qt6 Settings, select Breeze in Style, in Paletter check Custom radio button and select Color scheme darker. Go to Font tab, set the Font to "Hack Nerd Font Mono", Font style Normal and Size 10. Go to the Icon Theme tab and select Papirus-Dark.
udisks provides a daemon udisksd, that implements D-Bus interfaces used to query and manipulate storage devices, and a command-line tool udisksctl, used to query and use the daemon.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks/
For the root user, to list the drives user the following command:
$ fdisk -lTo mount the drives use:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/usbTo unmount the drives use:
$ sudo umount /dev/sdd1For the normal user, to list the drives user the following command:
$ lsblkTo mount the drives use:
$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdd1To unmount the drives use:
$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdd1See all mounts with:
findmntRead how create a partition table and partitions in the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fdisk
In order to format read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/FAT
Processor manufacturers release stability and security updates to the processor microcode. These updates provide bug fixes that can be critical to the stability of your system. Without them, you may experience spurious crashes or unexpected system halts that can be difficult to track down.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microcode
libinput is a library to handle input devices in Wayland compositors and to provide a generic X.Org input driver. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction to minimize the amount of custom input code compositors need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Libinput
See man 5 sway-input for more details.
- anki
- breeze
- breeze-gtk
- btop
- cliphist
- cmatrix
- curl
- deepin-icon-theme
- dosfstools
- fastfetch
- ffmpeg
- font-manager
- git
- grim
- htop
- inxi
- jq
- keepassxc
- khal
- libinput
- libreoffice-still
- lsof
- lximage-qt
- lxqt-archiver
- lxqt-config
- mako
- man-db
- minidlna
- net-tools
- ntfs-3g
- open-ssh
- openssl
- otf-font-awesome
- p7zip
- papirus-icon-theme
- pavucontrol
- pcmanfm-qt
- playerctl
- qalculate-qt
- qpwgraph
- rsync
- screenfetch
- sddm
- slurp
- smartmontools
- swappy
- syncthing
- tree
- ttf-hack-nerd
- udisks2
- unrar
- unzip
- usbutils
- uuid-gen
- vim
- visual-studio-code-bin
- vlc
- wf-recorder
- wl-clipboard
- xdg-desktop-portal
- xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
- xorg-xwayland
- xpdf
- yay
- zip
- zsh
- zsh-completions