Personal linux configuration files

These are my config files. I use linux with suckless's dynamic window manager (dwm), it's nothing too fancy, just a nice wallpaper and a black status bar on the bottom to show basic information.

To write code generaly I use vim (neovim) and tmux, here is a screenshot debugging 6502 emulator

Lockscreen

As a lockscreen I use a script (wrapper of i3lock) that I made to mimic the lockscreen of Win 11:

Applications that I use

OS: Arch linux
Shell: Zsh for user, dash linked to /bin/sh
Window manager: dwm fork
dwm status: dwmblocks-async
Application launcher: dmenu fork
Term: kitty and my fork of suckless's simple terminal (st) on my laptop
Term font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
dwm bar (and dmenu) font: Victor Mono Regular and JoyPixels for emojis
Editor: vim (neovim)
vim colorscheme: gruvbox
Web browser: Firefox
Login manager: none, autologin on tty1 and starting Xorg from zsh with the following statement:

# Starts the X server only on tty1
if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
	startx 2> /dev/null
	logout
fi

Lockscreen: i3lock custom script
Notifications: Dunst
Blue light filter: redshift
Compositor: jonaburg's picom fork (adds animations when changing workspaces in dwm)
Applications theme: adwaita
Video player: mpv
pdf viewer: zathura

Arch linux package installation

Display server and graphics libraries

Starting from a vanilla arch linux installation you will need, first Xorg server and some basic fonts

# pacman -S xorg xorg-server xorg-xinit ttf-dejavu ttf-joypixels

also make sure to install your graphics card drivers as well as common graphics libraries, in the case of integrated intel hd graphics:

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa mesa-utils

System

# pacman -S zsh dash base-devel ssh git openssh xss-lock xbindkeys xcape dunst \
man-db man-pages

read more about why dash on the arch wiki

Zsh plugins installation

Run the following commands to clone the plugins into the zsh plugged folder, then it should be sourced automatically from the .zshrc file

zsh-autosuggestions

$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions \
	~/.config/zsh/plugged/zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-history-substring-search

$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search \
	~/.config/zsh/plugged/zsh-history-substring-search

zsh-syntax-highlighting

$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
	~/.config/zsh/plugged/zsh-syntax-highlighting

User applications

Official repositories

These are some packages from the offical repos that I use

# pacman -S neovim tmux kitty firefox dolphin dolphin-plugins gvfs gvfs-mtp \
gvfs-smb kio kio-extras kio-fuse adwaita-qt5 zathura zathura-pdf-mupdf \
zathura-pdf-djvu mpv xclip gnome-calculator redshift lxappearance qt5ct \
nitrogen feh translate-shell ueberzug scrot udisks2 gtk2 gtk3

Arch linux User Repositories

These are packages from the AUR (make sure you have an AUR helper installed)

$ yay -S betterlockscreen nerd-fonts-jetbrains-mono picom-jonaburg-git gitmux

mjkloeckner/dotfiles