Dependencies and other details

i3

• Launch picom, volnoti, nm-applet, fcitx, xfce4-notifyd and some desktop applications in .local/wm/on_i3_startup script.
• Screenshots are handled using scrot.
• feh is used to set the background.
• rofi is used as an application launcher (and other usages such as shutdown menu)
• playerctl is used to add media player control abilities.
• parcellite as clipboard manager.
• pcmanfm as file manager (don't forget gvfs for trash management)
• polkit-gnome and gnome-keyring for keyring.

TODO: i3status-rust

https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust

i3blocks

• perl
• mpstat (from sysstat packet) for CPU usage
• i2c-tools for temperature
• acpi for battery level
• pulseaudio for volume
• light is used to manage screen light on laptop

Fonts: ttf-fira-mono and ttf-font-awesome

openSUSE: refresh repos on startup with systemd

For i3blocks updates blocklet to work, repos need to be refreshed at some point.

Write the following to /etc/systemd/system/zypper-refresh.service

[Unit]
Description=Refresh zypper repos at startup
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=zypper refresh
RestartSec=7200

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then reload systemd by running systemctl daemon-reload and enable the new service with systemctl enable zypper-refresh.service

rofi

From https://github.com/Lomadriel/dotfiles

zsh

I'm using oh-my-zsh to facilitate customization. Please install it before using stow. Follow these instructions for zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin.

This config uses starship cross-shell prompt.

For emojis support in starship prompt, follow this guide. tl;dr: just download Google Noto Color Emoji and EmojiOne Android, drop them to ~/.local/share/fonts/ and run fc-cache -v -f. Terminal should be restarted.

xinit

Dependencies: - gnome-keyring

Notes

• To send notifications, there is notify-send.
• To see symbolic key name there is the program xev (xorg-xev).
• stow is a good software to manage dotfiles (stow -t ~ -S FOLDER_NAME to symlink content of FOLDER_NAME into home)

Programs

• rofi - application launcher (and other usages such as shutdown menu)
• playerctl - add media player control abilities
• pcmanfm - as graphical filemanager
• nnn - (n³) as terminal filemanager
• feh - for background management
• network-manager-applet - for network connection (executable name: nm-applet)
• lxappearance - to configure GTK applications
• xfce4-notifyd - for notifications management (/usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd to run)
• rofi - as application launcher and focus switch (rofi -show run, to launch application)
• pavucontrol - to manage audio stuff.
• seahorse - to manage keyring.
• file-roller - as archive manager.
• calcurse - curse calendar
• sxiv - Simple X Image Viewer
• foliate - A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

Rust

• ripgrep - grep replacement
• alacritty - as terminal emulator
• exa - ls replacement
• rg - grep replacement
• bat - cat replacement (with synthax highlighting)
• fd - find replacement
• hexyl - as a cat-like colored hex viewer
• xxv - interactive hex viewer
• zoxide - A faster way to navigate your filesystem (similar to autojump)
• zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included (replaces tmux and screen)
• procs - ps replacement
• sd - sed alternative with simpler syntax (tr on steroids)
• dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
• tokei - Count your code, quickly
• hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool
• bottom - top alternative
• tealdeer - tldr implementation
• bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool, display current network utilization by process, connection, remote IP, hostname…
• grex - A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
• nushell - A new type of shell (pipeline-based, similar to PowerShell)
• ddh / fclones - Fast duplicate file finder
• eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)
• delta - A viewer for git and diff output
• diskonaut - Terminal disk space navigator
• rusty-man - Command-line viewer for rustdoc documentation
• broot - Get an overview of a directory, even a big one (better than tree)
• gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git
• git absorb - git commit --fixup, but automatic
• mdcat - cat for markdown
• shotgun - Minimal X screenshot utility
• terminal-typeracer - An open source terminal based version of Typeracer written in rust.
• oha - HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation.
• kmon - Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
• battop - Interactive batteries viewer
• csview - A high performance csv viewer with cjk/emoji support.
• pipe-rename - Rename your files using your favorite text editor
• git-trim - Automatically trims your branches whose tracking remote refs are merged or stray
• cargo sweep - A cargo subcommand for cleaning up unused build files generated by Cargo Resources
• cargo wipe - Cargo subcommand that recursively finds and optionally wipes all "target" or "node_modules" folders that are found in the current path.
• lfs - A thing to get information on your mounted disks

To consider

• xfce4-power-manager (Power Management - very handy for a laptop)
• pasystray (full pulseaudio control from the system tray)
• dotenv-linter - checks .env files for problems that may cause the application to malfunction
• neomutt - NeoMutt is a command line mail reader (or MUA). It’s a fork of Mutt with added features.
• newsboat - An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
• sent - Creates a presentation immediately from a plain text file https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
• meli - Experimental terminal mail client
• https://direnv.net/
• https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/the-way
• https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad
• https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/ruplacer
• https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/the-way

openSUSE: codecs quickstart

sudo zypper install opi && opi codecs

Good japanese font

sudo zypper install adobe-sourcehansans-jp-fonts

URLs

• https://blog.burntsushi.net/system76-darter-archlinux/
• https://suckless.org/rocks/
• https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md
• If partitions are ro after suspend with Lemur Pro