🌙 dotfiles, btw

My daily driver desktop config running Niri + Noctalia Shell on CachyOS.

🖥️ Setup

Component	Choice
Distro	CachyOS (Arch-based)
Compositor	Niri
Shell/Bar	Noctalia (Quickshell)
Terminal	Ghostty
Shell	ZSH + Oh My ZSH + Powerlevel10k
Launcher	Rofi
Lock Screen	Hyprlock
File Manager	Nautilus
Theme	Tokyo Night
Font	JetBrains Mono

📁 Structure

.
├── ghostty/          → ~/.config/ghostty
│   └── config
├── hypr/             → ~/.config/hypr
│   └── hyprlock.conf
├── niri/             → ~/.config/niri
│   └── config.kdl
├── noctalia/         → ~/.config/noctalia
│   └── settings.json
├── rofi/             → ~/.config/rofi
│   ├── config.rasi
│   └── tokyonight.rasi
└── install.sh

🚀 Installation

git clone https://github.com/daniel-phage/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

The install script symlinks config directories to ~/.config/. Existing configs are backed up with a timestamp before being replaced.

📦 Dependencies

pacman -S niri ghostty rofi nautilus

# AUR / manual install
paru -S hyprlock noctalia-git quickshell-git

Note: Adjust AUR package names as needed — check CachyOS repos first as some may be available there.

🔒 Lock Screen

Hyprlock with Tokyo Night colors, blurred screenshot background, and a dynamic time-based greeting.

⚙️ Niri Highlights

• Scrolling tiling window manager (Wayland-native)
• focus-follows-mouse enabled
• 3440x1440 @ 175Hz ultrawide config
• Window corner radius with shadows
• Polkit agent: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

📝 Notes

• Make sure to add the polkit agent to your Niri startup if apps like BTRFS Assistant need privilege escalation
• Rofi uses the tokyonight.rasi theme — adjust the path in config.rasi if your dotfiles location differs

📄 License

This repo is under a permissive MIT License that you can read about here.