dotfiles

Personal configuration files for running a stylish Arch Linux desktop environment

Table of contents

• Rice info
• Installation
• Window management tips
• Monitor settings
• Network settings
• Bluetooth settings
• Audio settings

HDMI-0	DVI-I-1

Rice info

• Operating System: Arch Linux
• Window Manager: bspwm
• Display Manager: lightdm
• Task Bar: polybar
• Launcher: rofi
• Compositor: picom (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/picom-rounded-corners)
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: zsh
• File Manager: thunar
  • gvfs required for usb devices
  • xarchiver required for creating and extracting zip files
• Email Client: thunderbird
• Lockscreen: betterlockscreen (https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen#how-it-works)
  • Regenerate lockscreen images with betterlockscreen -u <path-to-image>

Installation

1. Clone repo into hidden directory

git clone git@github.com:joeyshi12/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles

2. Move themes, fonts, icons into local data folder and create symlinks
   • Configure assets with lxappearance
   • Terminal fonts: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro
   • Reload fonts: fc-cache -v

~/.dotfiles/bootstrap.sh

3. Install native packages

pacman -S $(cat ~/.dotfiles/pkglist)

4. Install yay

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

cd yay
makepkg -si

5. Install foreign packages

yay -S $(cat ~/.dotfiles/pkglocallist)

Window management tips

• Focus desktop: super + {1-6}
• Focus desktop on both monitors: super + alt + {1-3}
• Close focused window: super + w
• Focus window: super + {h,j,k,l}
• Swap focused window: super + shift + {h,j,k,l}

Hotkey bindings configured in .config/bspwm/sxhkd/sxhkdrc

Monitor settings

• Look up resolutions of available monitors with xrandr
• Monitor orientation and resolution settings can be configured in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/52-resolution-fix.conf:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "HDMI-0"
    Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1440"
    Option "Primary" "1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "DVI-I-1"
    Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
    Option "RightOf" "HDMI-0"
EndSection

• Workspace allocation across monitors is configured in ~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc:

bspc monitor HDMI-0 -d 1 2 3
bspc monitor DVI-I-1 -d 4 5 6

Network settings

• Run nmcli dev wifi to scan for networks
• Run nmtui to open user interface for connecting to networks

Bluetooth settings

1. Enable bluetooth services if not done so already

systemctl enable --now bluetooth

2. Automatically power on bluetooth adapter on boot by adding the following to /etc/bluetooth/main.conf:

[Policy]
AutoEnable=true

3. Scan for bluetooth devices and connect

bluetoothctl scan on &
bluetoothctl connect <dev>

Audio settings

• Audio mixer: pulsemixer
• Sound server controller: pactl
• Terms: Output = Sink, Input = Source

Manage Sound Devices

• Find current sink/source with pactl get-default-(sink|source)
• List all available sinks/sources with pactl list (sinks|sources)
• Set sink/source with pactl set-default-(sink-source)