Table of Contents

1. Dependencies
2. Installing the dependecies
   1. Basic packages from official repositories
   2. other packages that are not in the official repositories
      1. xkblayout
      2. albert
3. Clone the dotfiles
4. Sytem fonts and theme
   1. Fonts(Icons and text)
   2. System theme, system icons and cursors
5. Set up Basic components of de
   1. Emacs
      1. Create the emacs service to start the emacs server
      2. Install the packages that are not in melpa
      3. mu4e set up
   2. QuteBrowser
      1. install the dracula theme

Dependencies

The following packages are needed:

• python
• i3
• xautolock
• NetworkManager
• pulseaudio
• pavucontrol
• emacs
• alacritty
• qutebrowser
• pcmanfm
• i3blocks
• i3lock-fancy-rapid
• light
• playerctl
• blueman
• nitrogen
• picom
• albert
• xf86-input-synaptics(not available for fedora)
• rclone
• acpi
• dunst
• xkblayout-state-git
• xprop
• xset
• scrot
• git
• isync
• mupdf
• maildir-utils
• libtool
• mpv
• fonts

Installing the dependecies

Basic packages from official repositories

Run the following as root. Replace dnf install with the package manager command of the distro in use.

# run this as sudo
dnf install i3 python xautolock NetworkManager pulseaudio pavucontrol emacs alacritty qutebrowser pcmanfm i3blocks light playerctl blueman nitrogen picom albert rclone acpi dunst xprop xset scrot git mupdf isync mu4e libtool libvterm mpv

other packages that are not in the official repositories

xkblayout

To install xkblayout run the following as root

git clone https://github.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state
cd xkblayout-state
make
cp ~/xkblayout-state/xkblayout-state /usr/bin/xkblayout-state

albert

To install albert launcher follow the instructions on their webpage

Clone the dotfiles

Using a git bare repositoriy, so that I will be able to manage dotfiles more easily. More on this here: The best way to store your dotfiles

#!/bin/bash
#create the  directory to host the bare repostitory
mkdir .dotfiles
#
echo  "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> .bashrc
git clone --bare https://github.com/PKpers/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
function config {
   /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
}
mkdir -p .config-backup
config checkout
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
    echo "Checked out config.";
else
    echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
    config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
fi;
config checkout
config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

Sytem fonts and theme

Fonts(Icons and text)

Fonts folder is in the repo so when the config-install script runs, fonts are downloaded and placed in the correct path.

System theme, system icons and cursors

System, icons and cursor themes are configured in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini . Once the dotfiles repo is cloned, one has to just install the fonts so that setttings.ini can read them:

cd ~
#System theme installation
mkdir ~/.local/share/themes
git clone https://github.com/dracula/gtk ~/.themes/dracula-theme 
#Icon theme installation
wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh
mv ~/.icons ~/.local/share/icons
#install the cursor theme
cd ~/.themes/dracula-theme/kde/cursors/
chmod a+x build.sh
./build.sh
cp Dracula-cursors ~/.local/share/.icons/

Set up Basic components of de

Emacs

Create the emacs service to start the emacs server

To install the service do the following, Not as root:

cd ~
cp ~/services/emacs.service ~/.config/systemd/user/emacs.service
systemctl enable --user emacs
systemctl start --user emacs

More about emacs service: Emacs as Daemon

Install the packages that are not in melpa

To install the packages that are not in melpa, simply do:

cd ~/.emacs.d
git clone https://github.com/crocket/dired-single
git clone https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection
git clone https://github.com/org-mime/org-mime

mu4e set up

script that sets mu4e up. More about mu4e can be found here: Emacs-mail

#Prepare the enviroment
cd ~
echo "Please enter your email address"
read email
echo "please enter you email password"
read password
echo "$password" >> ~/.pswd #put password to this folder so mbsync can read it 
mkdir -p ~/Mail/Gmail/Inbox #Create the directories where the mail will be stored 
#Start the initial sync
mbsync -a
#Setting up mu to index the mailbox
mu init --maildir=~/Mail --my-address="$email"
mu index

QuteBrowser

install the dracula theme

git clone https://github.com/dracula/qutebrowser-dracula-theme.git ~/.config/qutebrowser/dracula/
echo ".config/qutebrowser/dracula/" >> .gitignore #dracula is a git repository