not-mynumbness/swaydotfiles

Welcome to the repository for my minimal Arch Sway rice! In this setup, I aim to create a clean and efficient desktop environment using the Sway window manager, which is a tiling compositor compatible with the i3 configuration file format.

Minimal Arch Sway Rice That Just Works.

• Terminal - kitty
• Menu - fuzzel
• Power Menu - wlogout
• Bar - waybar
• ScreenShot - grim
• Notification - dunst
• Music - mpd
• Video - mpv
• NightLight - gammastep

Screenshots

How to get this setup?

Install yay (AUR Helper)

  sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
  cd /tmp/
  git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
  cd yay-bin
  makepkg -si

Make pacman faster

  sudo pacman -S --needed reflector
  sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bkp
  sudo reflector --country 'India' --latest 5 --age 2 --fastest 5 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  sudo sed -i 's/^#ParallelDownloads/ParallelDownloads/' /etc/pacman.conf

Dependencies

  yay -S --needed sway waybar fastfetch gnome-keyring git libsecret gvfs-mtp papirus-icon-theme autotiling qogir-gtk-theme zsh kitty wlogout swaylock-effects polkit-gnome sddm-git thunar thunar-archive-plugin file-roller p7zip pavucontrol brightnessctl lxappearance xdg-user-dirs dunst swww-git swayidle qogir-icon-theme grim ttf-font-awesome-5 otf-font-awesome-5 xorg-xwayland mpd mpc ncmpcpp firefox ttf-dejavu inter-font fuzzel bluez bluez-utils blueman network-manager-applet xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr xdg-desktop-portal-gtk vim nano htop qt5-wayland qt6-wayland qt5ct

ohMyZSH setup

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

MyApps

  yay -S --needed brave-bin kdenlive gimp visual-studio-code-bin obs-studio google-chrome qbittorrent gammastep mpv flatpak aria2 yt-dlp radeontop libva-mesa-driver droidcam-obs-plugin ff2mpv-native-messaging-host-git zenmonitor3-git geekbench openssh nodejs-lts-hydrogen npm python flatseal tk python-pip ytfzf ueberzugpp fzf peerflix ani-cli-git notflix-git

Now Just copy the.config/ folder from this git to your ~/.config/

Note : Make sure all dependencies are installed !!

  mkdir -p ~/.config/
  mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/
  mkdir -p ~/walls/
  cd /tmp/
  git clone https://github.com/xtremeandroid/swaydotfiles.git
  cd swaydotfiles
  cp -vr .config/* ~/.config/
  cp -vr .local/bin/* ~/.local/bin/
  mv ~/.config/backgrounds/wall5.png ~/walls/
  cp .zshrc .zprofile ~/

That's it, Enjoy !!