Qtile dotfiles

My first Arch Linux custom desktop, made from scratch with QtileWM. If you want to use these dotfiles, please keep in mind that you need every package installed. I will keep on adding commits to this repo as I change stuff in my personal desktop. Feel free to change any config file to your heart's content.

Note: The display server I use is Xorg, none of this has been tested on Wayland

Packages needed

Fonts used are:

• JetBrains Mono Nerd Font

Themes used are:

• breeze
• breeze-gtk

Dependencies:

• qtile
• qtile-extras
• zsh
• zsh-completions
• alacritty
• rofi
• feh
• picom
• pamixer
• betterlockscreen
• flameshot
• dunst

If you are using an Arch based distro you can install these using your favourite AUR helper:

paru -S qtile qtile-extras alacritty pamixer rofi feh picom betterlockscreen flameshot nerd-fonts-jetbrains-mono zsh zsh-completions dunst breeze breeze-gtk

Qtile uses some third-party libraries that you will also need to install using pip:

pip install dbus-next iwlib

Login

If logging in from the tty is not your thing, you may want to check some login manager. I use sddm with an astronaut theme (https://github.com/joe733/sddm-theme-astronaut).

Keybinds

Keyboard

• mod + enter : Spawn terminal
• mod + arrows : Change window focus
• mod + shift + arrows : Move window
• mod + tab : Toggle layouts
• mod + w : Kill focused window
• mod + control + r : Reload Qtile
• mod + control + q : Shutdown Qtile
• mod + m : Launch Rofi
• mod + shift + "plus" : Grow window (Tiling layouts only)
• mod + shift + "minus" : Shrink window (Tiling layouts only)
• mod + "plus" : Volume +5%
• mod + "minus" : Volume -5%
• mod + v : Toggle Mute
• mod + l : Lock screen
• mod + [1-7] : Switch between workspaces
• mod + s : Select screenshot area
• mod + shift + s : Full screenshot

Mouse

• mod + LeftClick: Drag window (Converts it into floating window)
• mod + RightClick: Resize window (Converts it into floating window)
• mod + CenterClick: Bring window to front
• Scroll (on the volume module): Pulseaudio volume +-5%

BetterLockScreen

In order to use betterlockscreen you will need to update its cache with the image you want to use. You can also specify a directory with a few images in it and betterlockscreen will randomly choose one to update. To do this use this command:

betterlockscreen -u <path>

To lock the screen from a terminal you can use:

betterlockscreen -l <effect> -q

But I already set a keybind in config.py. Just do [mod] + l

You will also need to enable the service if you want it to lock the screen when the system sleeps/suspends. First copy the .service file to /usr/lib/systemd/system/ (The AUR package does this for you)

cp betterlockscreen@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/

Then enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable betterlockscreen@$USER.service

For more info check their repository: https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen

Shoutouts

• LunarVim: https://www.lunarvim.org/