My dot files for setting up new laptops in the future

Emacs theme

Put the file ./emacs-theme/actraiser-theme.el under the folder ~/.emacs.d in order to use the theme.

Using keyd (key-daemon) to change out layout of multiple keyboards

keyd is a tool for managing layout of different keyboards. What you need to do is to install it and set up the config file under /etc/keyd/default.conf.

Check out the files in the repo for my version of the default.conf.

Here are some of the useful commands that keyd provides:

# run this after install keyd
sudo systemctl enable keyd && sudo systemctl start keyd

# this would monitor your key presses from multiple input sources
sudo keyd monitor 

# this would apply the changes to the system
sudo key reload 

sudo journalctl --pager-end --unit=keyd # check for errors with keyd

Keyboard layout for edge case scenerio (check the newer guide)

Persistent keyboard layout switch

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=262467

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58019772/need-to-toggle-layout-globally-instead-of-per-window-using-setxkbmap

https://askubuntu.com/questions/501659/how-to-swap-command-and-control-keys-with-xkb-step-by-step/501660#501660

The guide itself

Here is the guide to set up a custom keyboard layout (swap capslock with control and backspace with backslash):

Before doing anything, download the custom symbol file and put it under the folder /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols.

First, edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev, add the following entry under ! option = symbols:

custom:hhkb_layout                   = +custom(hhkb_layout)

Second, add the following under /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst:

custom:hhkb_layout                   Adapt HHKB layout for normal keyboards

Thirdly, get the device id of your desired keyboard to map on (you need to have xinput installed):

xinput -list | grep -i key

Here is an example output:

⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]                                                              [0/2167]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Topre Corporation HHKB Professional       id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ DELL0926:00 044E:1220 UNKNOWN             id=15   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel HID events                          id=16   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel HID 5 button array                  id=17   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=18   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=19   [slave  keyboard (3)]

If I want to remap device with id=15, I would do the following:

setxkbmap -device 15 -option custom:hhkb_layout

Finally, if you want to make the changes permanent, add the setxkbmap line to your startup script (.bashrc or .xinitrc)

Fonts

Iosevka

Programs for development

urxvt: terminal
tmux: terminal overlay (multiplexer)
vim: text editor
emacs: text editor
mypaint: paint utility
xournalapp: note taking app
i3: window manager
i3status: statusbar
i3lock: screen locker
flameshot: screenshoot tool
evince/mupdf: pdf viewer
chromium: web browser
feh: image viewer
ibus: for multiple language support
obs: screen recorder, streaming
alttab: alt-tab feature for x11
keyd: for changing out layouts of keyboards

build-essential
GLFW, GL, SDL
pulseaudio
autoconf
unzip
wget
libtool

Guide to install custom fonts without root priviledges

for Truetype fonts, the installation process would be like this:

mkdir ~/.fonts

Move your fonts to ~/.fonts

mv *.ttf ~/.fonts

Create the fonts.dir and fonts scale files

cd ~/.fonts
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts

The new font should now be available. Check if the font has been added by running fc-list

fc-list

You are all set

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