My dotfiles

This is a makepkg package which can be installed on a live cd of Artix/Arch with an AUR helper.

What do you get?

Custom dwl build
All startup programs managed by s6
Custom status bar inspired by somebar, written in Rust
- Shows current tags, window layout, window title, and status bar text, updated in an extremely lightweight manner
- Shows volume and brightness progress bars when they are adjusted using the buttons
- Implements a dmenu-like application launcher that reads .desktop files and uses the Helix QueryAtom for pattern matching
Nushell config with a greeting that runs in ~1ms thanks to the custom status bar
Ayu Dark color scheme throughout
foot config with colorscheme
Custom wallpaper featuring Ferris the Crab
Cascade userChrome.css with LibreWolf
arkenfox-user.js with a few overrides
Optimized version of tuigreet with greetd as login manager

How to install

There are 2 ways to use this package

During installation

Once you've gotten to the chroot part of the Artix/Arch installation process, make a user and install paru-bin
Install all the AUR dependencies using paru
Install the package with INSTALL_ARTIX=1, HOSTNAME set to what you want your hostname to be, and DOTFILES_USER set to the user you are installing the dotfiles for. My timezone is America/New_York, so the script will set it to that too.

On an already installed Arch/Artix distro

Simply install the package with DOTFILES_USER set to your current user.

For both of these processes, the environment variables are only needed once, and upgrading is as simple as upgrading the package.

Does it work?

Yes, I tested it on a fresh install of Artix and worked out all the kinks!

Per-Machine Configuration (NEW)

My DWL and somebar builds now support having differing configurations between machines without having to re-compile everything. You simply need to install dconf-editor

sudo pacman -S dconf-editor

From there you can navigate into the dotfiles folder and change various settings from there!

Configuration changes are applied instantly and don't require restarting the supported apps

Colors

Colors in the configuration are expressed as Strings, and are interpreted by a CSS parser which supports much of CSS Color 4 and CSS Color 5

Helix QueryAtoms

You can use this syntax in the application launcher to match application names

enum QueryAtomKind {
    /// Item is a fuzzy match of this behaviour
    ///
    /// Usage: `foo`
    Fuzzy,
    /// Item contains query atom as a continuous substring
    ///
    /// Usage `'foo`
    Substring,
    /// Item starts with query atom
    ///
    /// Usage: `^foo`
    Prefix,
    /// Item ends with query atom
    ///
    /// Usage: `foo$`
    Postfix,
    /// Item is equal to query atom
    ///
    /// Usage `^foo$`
    Exact,
}

Services behavior

These dotfiles and my DWL build leverages s6 in order to run user services. My DWL build will also use the logind API to facilitate a graceful shutdown. Basically, when you run the shutdown command directly, everything will stop and be killed by the shutdown daemon. However, if you use loginctl poweroff, DWL will gracefully shutdown all s6 user services, and then proceed with the shutdown

Basically, don't just run shutdown or reboot, use loginctl instead.

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