.dotfiles

A bunch of dotfiles for console style based desktop. The main purpose is to create a minimalist and comfortable environment with a focus on the use of console applications.

Prerequisites

Next software should be installed for only desktop session configuration:

Xorg
xorg-xinit - runs user's desktop session without display manager
awesome
compton
conky - system info monitor
terminus-font - maybe it is not enough to install, because different distributions have different names for this font. Anyway, fix font name in the config files, if it does not work.

Next software is configured with this dotfiles and recommended to be installed:

xorg-setxkbmap - I use it to set up keyboard layout switching with Caps Lock key. You can find its usage in .config/awesome/rc.lua
rxvt-unicode - I have configured clipboard and appearance for it. You can find nord color scheme I have used here in config files
unclutter - makes cursor invisible, if it is idle for a long time
vim
zsh - I have configured zsh with history, highlight and suggestion plugins. It looks pretty good.
ranger, w3m - console-like file manager, w3m is used for image preview
mpd, mpc, ncmpcpp - music daemon and his console frontends: first one for mpd configuration, second one is for interraction.
neofetch - system info fetcher
rtorrent - console-like torrent client
qutebrowser, ttf-droid - minimalist, based on Qt5WebEngine, convinient for only keyboard users browser.
feh - minimalist image viewer
mpv - minimalist video player
htop - cool process monitor
scrot - minimalist screenshot tool
xcursor-neutral
lxappearance - tool used for gtk configuration (if your system has no tool for gtk config; you can use this to config xcursor-neutral cursors)
yay-git - AUR-helper

Installation

Software

For Arch Linux users I have provided commands to install all packages needed for this configs.

Update pacman database:

sudo pacman --sync --refresh

Install base packages:

sudo pacman --sync xorg-server xorg-xinit awesome compton unclutter conky terminus-font

Install other packages:

sudo pacman --sync feh qutebrowser htop lxappearance mpd mpc ncmpcpp neofetch rtorrent scrot ttf-droid xcursor-neutral ranger rxvt-unicode vim zsh xorg-setxkbmap mpv

yay-git should be installed from AUR

Configs

Just clone this repo and copy all its contents to your home dir:

git clone --recurse-submodules -j4 https://github.com/kacejot/.dotfiles.git
cp -r .dotfiles/* ~/
cp -r .dotfiles/.* ~/

kacejot/.dotfiles