!!! I don't use this anymore, I switched to NixOS and Hyprland. Link to my NixOS config

SÅM's Åwesome Minimal Desktop Environment

Introduction

This is an Arch Linux post installation script that installs my desktop environment that uses of custom builds of suckless software: dwm, dmenu, st , dnote slstatus and slock. Additionally this script installs my dotfiles, gtk themes and my favorite programs.

Features

Dmenu-samde

This is a dmenu script that can be used to change various system settings, press super+ctrl+r to run it. Most of the changes are done through Xresources.

Here's some information on the options:

• Theme selector: The "themes" are also known as "rices".
• Color scheme: This changes the color scheme for all the suckless builds and any other program that supports Xresources. If you want more color schemes you can go to: this github repo and terminal.sexy.
• Toggles: It presents a list of togglable options for the suckless builds and picom.
• Font: This lists all the fonts that are installed. "System Font" changes the dwm bar, dmenu and dnote.
• Folder Colors: This changes the folder colors in the papirus icon theme.
• Monitor Profile: The "monitor profiles" are config files for various monitor sizes and resolutions.
• Pywal: Uses pywal to generate a color scheme from the current wallpaper.
• Reload Desktop: Merges Xresources and reloads all the suckless programs.

Tag icons

Nerdfont icons are used for tags instead of numbers. Dwm is configured to have my most used programs automatically open and switch to the appropriate tag. Tags that are being used are colored and the ones that are vacant are greyed out.

• Tag 1: Web browser
• Tag 2: Terminal emulator
• Tag 3: File manager
• Tag 4: Productivity
• Tag 5: Games and 2nd productivity tag

Border colors

Border colors are set in dwm's config file. It's configured to have the border colors match the tag icon color.

Sticky windows

Sticky windows are windows that are visible on every tag, it can toggled off and on with super+backspace. Programs can be made sticky by default in dwm's config file.

Scratchpad

The scratchpad keybind is super+t. The default size can be adjusted by changing the default number of columns and rows in the monitor profile that is being used. Kill the scratchpad window and reload Xresources for the change to take effect.

Programs

Suckless software

• Window manager: dwm
• Terminal emulator: st
• Launcher/menu program: dmenu
• Status monitor: slstatus
• Notification utility: dnote
• Screen locker: slock

Other programs

• Shell: zsh
• Prompt: starship
• Editor: neovim
• Compositor: picom (FT-Labs fork)
• TUI file manager: lf
• GUI file manager: thunar
• Web browser: librewolf
• Image viewer: nsxiv
• Video player: mpv
• Music player: ncmpcpp (with mpd+mpc)
• Wallpaper program: xwallpaper
• AUR helper: yay

Keybinds

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The keys are arranged so that the window manager keys are (mostly) on the home and bottom row and the keys to launch programs are on the top row.

Window manager keybinds

Keybind	Action
super + a,s,d,f,g	switch tag
super + shift + a,s,d,f,g	move to tag
super + ctrl + a,s,d,f,g	toggle tag view
super + q	exit program
super + t	scratchpad
super + b	toggle bar
super + z	toggle fullscreen
super + space	toggle floating window
super + backspace	toggle sticky window
super + tab	view previous tag
super + j,k	switch window focus
super + h,l	switch monitors
super + shift + h,l	move window to monitor
super + shift + j,k	resize floating window
super + ctrl + h,j,k,l	move floating window
super + alt + h,j,k,l	move floating window to corner
super + n,period	adjust window split (mfact)
super + m,comma	adjust number of master windows
super + ;	switch master window
super + 1,2,3	switch layouts (master,float,monacle)
super + -,=	adjust gaps
super + shift + =	sets gaps to 0
super + 0	view all tags
super + shift + 0	make window visible on all tags
super + F5	reload Xresources colors

Other keybinds

Keybind	Action
super + enter	st
super + shift + enter	st with tmux
super + w	librewolf or brave
super + e	thunar
super + shift + e	lf
super + control + e	dmenu-open
super + r	dmenu_run
super + ctrl + r	dmenu-samde
super + y,u,i,o,p	program launch script
super + Escape	power_menu
super + shift + q	xkill
super + control + q	dmenu_kill
super + control + alt + q	restart dwm
super + delete	slock
super + c	picom toggle
super + control + b	dmenu-bluetooth
super + control + t	theme selector
super + control + c	color scheme selector
audio {mute,lower,raise}	adjust volume
shift + audio {lower,raise}	adjust mpd volume
audio {prev,play,next}	mpc prev,toggle,next
super + shift + audio play	show current track(mpd)
shift + audio {prev,next}	mpc seek(rewind,foward)
brightness {down,up}	adjust brightness

Installation

Use this script after installing Arch with archinstall. Select the "xorg" profile in archinstall.

Run this script as a user with sudo privileges.

git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.com/SamDenton/samde.git
cd samde
./samde.sh

Credit

This is inspired by LARBS, DTOS and chadwm.

I would like to give big thank you to suckless and all the people who've made patches for the suckless programs.

Thank you to the creators of dmenu-bluetooth and lfub.

Also last but not least I would like to thank the FOSS community. This project is essentially a collection of software and ideas from the FOSS community and this project would not even exist without it.