Beginner Question

[awalvie]

Hi,

I have a very basic rice on my (KDE Plasma) Manjaro right now and have been contemplating to move to i3 for a while now. The thing is, I really like your dotfiles, but I don't really know how I am supposed to start, in that, what *nix am I supposed to have and how to go about installing this on a fresh machine. Could you please help me out by pointing out the steps that I should take to go about installing it in a beginner friendly fashion ?

[szorfein]

no problem, what theme would you like to try first?

[awalvie]

The first one, anonymous

[szorfein]

first version:

install on manjaro linux

1st, Open a terminal

just open a terminal :)

2nd dependencies

Official packages:

sudo pacman -S stow awesome xorg-xinit git rofi compton feh

From AUR (with manjaro:

sudo pamac build nerd-fonts-iosevka nerd-fonts-roboto-mono xst-git 

my repos

cd
git clone https://github.com/szorfein/dotfiles
cd dotfiles

stow

stow config
stow images
stow awesomewm
stow theme-anonymous

if a file alrealy exist, stow will show you what you have to move, example:

stow config
WARNING! stowing config would cause conflicts:
  * existing target is neither a link nor a directory: .Xresources
  * existing target is neither a link nor a directory: .xinitrc
All operations aborted.

Here, you have to backup the files .Xresources and .xinitrc

mv ~/.Xresources ~/.Xresources-BACKUP
mv ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc-BACKUP

And relaunch stow to see if it's right now.

stow config

shell

If your shell is bash, edit the file ~/.bashrc, for zsh, edit ~/.zshrc and add xst or the terminal than you use:

TERMINAL=/usr/bin/xst

Kill current X session

pkill X

Start with my files

startx

[awalvie]

First of all thank you for writing such detailed instructions, I'll try this as soon as possible

[szorfein]

np, just let me know if something is wrong or doesn't work :)

[awalvie]

I'll try this out in just a couple of days, I have super crap internet right now.

[awalvie]

Tried it out and it works perfectly.