_{Last nix update: may 29, 2024}

Kaizen

 
 Overview 
    
 Installation 
    
 Acknowledgements 
 

A linux desktop environment configuration using Aylur's Gtk Shell.
The japanese word kaizen is a philosophy to improve continuously and change for the better.

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This configuration is designed to improve daily workflow and productivity with an intuitive minimal design that includes smart widgets and powerful development tools.

🔥 Showcase

showcase.mp4

🪟 Windows

Topbar

• Left Buttons
  • Logo Icon: Toggles launcher window
  • Workspace: Toggles workspaces overview window
  • Dashboard: Toggles dashboard
  • Extend Button
    • Window Options
      • Fullscreen, Toggle Float, Center Layout, Quit
      • Floats Only: Pin and Center
    • Developer Tools
      • Terminal: Toggles scratchpad terminal.
      • AI Tools: Opens API Tools Side Menu.
      • Windows 11: Opens Windows 11 VM. view my setup
• Middle Indicator and Searchbar:
  • Indicates brightness, audio and mic Adjustment.
  • Also shows current song playing in Spotify, and visualizer when Popup Media is open.
  • Overview and search applications and workspace management
• Right Buttons:
  • Extend Button
    • Draw: Starts annotation/drawing tool.
    • Colors: Toggles color popup widget.
    • Keys: Key/keyboard options.
    • Zoom: Zoom toggle options.
    • Record: Screen record options.
    • Snip: Screenshot options.
  • System Tray Applications
  • Control Button: Toggles quicksettings side menu widget
  • Date Button: Toggles Date sidemenu widget
  • Power Button: Opens Powermenu window

Popups

• Indicator
• Notifications
• Dock (dock)
• Color Tool (color)
• Media Player (media)
• Keyboard (keyboard)
• Annotation Tools (annotation)

Fullscreen

• Launcher
• Overview
• Shortcuts
• Power Menu

Side Menus

• API Tools (apis)
  • Google Gemini
  • OpenAI ChatGPT
• Date menu (date):
  • Calendar
  • Weather and Forecast
  • Agenda/Todo List
  • Pomodoro
  • Events
• Quick settings (quicksettings):
  • Notification List
  • Wifi List
  • Bluetooth List,
  • Sound and Audio Settings
  • Display Settings

Background

• Menu Item Options:
  • Terminal: Opens Terminal
  • Browser: Opens Browser
  • Files: Opens File Manager
  • Refresh: Refresh Hyprland
  • Dashboard: Opens Dashboard Window
  • Tools
    • Draw: Runs annotation tool
    • Keyboard: Toggle Keyboard Popup
    • Color Wheel: Toggle Color Wheel Popup

Lockscreen

Login Manager/Greeter (TODO)

How to toggle?

Note

use "ags" instead of "kaizen" if you installed this manually
The contents of Side Menus and Popups window with parenthesis are the <widget-name>

Toggle a window: kaizen -t <window-name>

Toggle a widget: kaizen -r "toggleWidget('<widget-name>');"

Example: ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf

bind=SUPER, f4, ags -t powermenu # Window
bind=SUPER, m, ags -r "toggleWidget('media');" # Widget

🫕 How to cook?

Manual Installation

Note

This list may be incomplete, so please check the packages inside the default.nix file.

Dependencies

• Utilities: bun, dart-sass, fd, gtk3
• Cava - Audio visualizer
• Gromit-mpx - Annotation Tool
• Matugen - Color generation tool
• Hyprpicker - Wayland Color Picker
• Swww - Animated Wallpaper Daemon
• Aylur's Gtk Shell - A customizable and extensive shell
• Hyprland - Dynamic Tiling Manager Wayland Compositor

Theme

• GTK: Matcha Dark Sea
• Icon Theme: White Sur
• Cursor: Bibata Modern Ice
• Font: Ubuntu Nerd Font Regular

Setup

git clone https://github.com/thericecold/kaizen
cp -r kaizen/desktop ~/.config/ags
ags -c ~/.config/ags/config.js

Add this line exec-once = ags to .config/hypr/hyprland.conf to execute on startup.

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❄️ Nix Installation

• Try it without installing nix run github:thericecold/kaizen

• Nix flake profile install nix profile install github:thericecold/kaizen

• Flake Input Installation

  flake.nix

  {
    inputs = {    
      nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
      home-manager = {
        url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
        inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
      };
      kaizen.url = "github:thericecold/kaizen";
    };
  
    outputs = { nixpkgs, kaizen, ... } @ inputs: let
      system = "x86_64-linux";
    in {
      homeConfigurations."your_username" = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
        pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
        extraSpecialArgs = { inherit kaizen; };
        modules = [ ./home.nix ];
      }
    };
  }

  home.nix

  { kaizen, ... }: {
    imports = [ kaizen.homeManagerModules.default; ]; 
    programs.kaizen = {
      enable = true;
      # // TODO:
      # options = {
      #   theme = {
      #     gaps = 1.5;
      #     padding = 4;
      #     radius = 16;
      #     blur-size = 4;
      #     shadows = true;
      #     border-width = 1;
      #     colorscheme = "poimandres";
      #   };
      #   font =  {
      #     size = 10;
      #     name = "Ubuntu Nerd Font";
      #   };
      # };
    };
  }

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Joey Mckur Developer/Owner of Ags
• end-4 Widget Ideas and AI tools