My dotfiles

Arch Linux setup centered around practicality and minimalism.

i3-gaps + i3lock + i3bar + i3status
zsh (no oh-my-zsh), powerlevel10k prompt
alacritty
nvim
bemenu
dunst
picom (no weird forks, just normal picom)
gruvbox is life

Use at own risk, or actually don't use this at all, dotfiles are a very personal thing, write your own 😛. The config can serve as inspiration, however, many hours of my life have been spent editing these files.

Installation

Prerequisites

Fresh Arch install (no xorg installed yet)
Basic packages like neovim, zsh, mlocate, network manager, man pages are installed
User is created with zsh as login shell
User is a sudoer
Internet connection

Download Installation Scripts

sudo pacman -S wget tar
cd ~
wget https://api.github.com/repos/pabloariasal/dotfiles/tarball/master -O dotfiles.tar.gz
tar -xzvf dotfiles.tar.gz
rm dotfiles.tar.gz

there is now a directory pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx containing installation scripts and setup files.

Install Xorg

cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx
./install install_xorg

Setup xinit and zprofile

In order to launch i3-wm xinit needs to be setup. startx is called from zprofile.

sudo pacman -S xorg-xinit
cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-XXX
cp configs/xorg/.xinitrc ..
cp configs/zsh/.zprofile ..
cp configs/env/.env ..

Install git

sudo pacman -S git

Install i3-wm

cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx
./install install_i3_wm

Install bemenu

sudo pacman -S bemenu

Select option "x11"

Install paru

cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx
./install install_paru

Install google-chrome

paru -S google-chrome

Install alacritty

It's important to install a terminal before booting into i3-wm

sudo pacman -S alacritty

Boot into i3-wm

Now we should be able to boot into i3-wm:

Logout (Ctrl-d) and login back again
Create a default config
mod+enter opens a alacritty

Generate ssh keys

sudo pacman -S xclip
cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx
./install create_github_personal_ssh_key

Add ssh public key to github account

open a terminal
start google chrome
Login into google and github
enter public key in the clipboard in github account

Start ssh Agent and add ssh key

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/github_personal

Clone dotfiles

cd pabloariasal-dotfiles-xxx
./install clone_repo
cd ..
rm -rf pabloariasal-dotfiles-XXX

The dotfiles repo is now cloned to the home directory

Shell Configuration

rm ~/.xinitrc ~/.zprofile ~/.env
cd dotfiles
sudo pacman -S stow
stow --verbose=2 -d configs -t ~ zsh
stow --verbose=2 -d configs -t ~ env

close and reopen terminal

xorg configuraton

rm ~/.xinitrc
cd dotfiles
install_config xorg
./install install_keyboard_conf

i3-wm configuration

rm -r ~/.config/i3/config
cd dotfiles
install_config i3
install_config i3status

Reload i3

Fonts

cd dotfiles
./install install_nerd_fonts

git Configuration

cd dotfiles
install_config git

Install Scripts

cd dotfiles
./install install_scripts

Install CLI Goodies

./install install_command_line_goodies
install_config vifm

Terminal Configuration

intall_config alacritty

NeoVim Configuration

sudo pacman -S words
intall_config nvim

Compositor

sudo pacman -S picom
install_config picom

`ssh-agent` service

cd dotfiles
install_config systemd
./install enable_agent_service

Tlp

sudo pacman -S tlp
sudo systemctl enable tlp.service

Wallpaper

sudo pacman -S nitrogen
cd dotfiles
sag
./install install_wallpapers

Open nitrogen and add ~/wallpapers as wallpaper directory (recursively), select a wallpaper.

System Monitoring

sudo pacman -S htop

Pdfs, Image Viewer and Window Swallowing

sudo pacman -S zathura zathura-pdf-mupdf eog
cd dotfiles
./install install_devour

iv and za in command line can be use to open pdfs and images!

Clipboard Manager

./install install_greenclip
install_config greenclip

Screenshots

sudo pacman -S flameshot

Notifications

sudo pacman -S dunst libnotify gnome-themes-extra
install_config dunst

Brightness and Audio Control

sudo pacman -S brightnessctl playerctl

Pulseaudio

./install install_pulseaudio

Flatpak

sudo pacman -S flatpak

Spotify

sudo pacman -S xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
flatpak install spotify

Anki

flatpak install anki

Development Tools

C/C++

cd dotfiles
./install install_cpp_dev_tools

Python

cd dotfiles
./install install_python_language_server

Lua

cd dotfiles
./install install_lua_dev_tools

pabloariasal/dotfiles