A guide to replicating my riced Arch Linux set-up.
It's my personal setup and what I'm using at the time of writing. If you want more, this guide will teach you the basics and provide a set-up to 'improve' on with your own needs in mind.
Visit r/unixporn to see what others have created.
Before we get to the ricing, we need to install a few things first.
sudo pacman -S dmenu vim rofi ranger feh
To use Dmenu, press mod+d. Only packages that have a GUI will appear if selected through Dmenu, otherwise it'll seem as if it's not working. This is normal.
To Use Ranger, run ranger.
cd ~
mkdir -p /tmp/yay_install
cd /tmp/yay_install
sudo pacman -S base-devel
sudo pacman -S expac yajl git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
cd ~
rm -r /tmp/yay_install
cd ~
mkdir -p ~/Pictures
mv ~/blackpanther-arch-rice/wal ~/Pictures
First you'll need to install the dependencies and then Polybar itself:
sudo pacman -S cairo libxcb python2 xcb-proto xcb-util-image xcb-util-wm xcb-util-xrm jsoncpp
yay -S polybar-git
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/kavirakesh14/blackpanther-arch-rice.git
cp -r ~/blackpanther-arch-rice/config/ ~/
cp -r ~/blackpanther-arch-rice/.Xdefaults ~/
Refresh i3 by pressing mod+r.
Only terminals and windows opened after this point will have those two changes applied to them.
yay -S otf-nerdfonts
Refresh i3 to load changes.
Read through the whole config file and understand what's happening. Change anything that's necessary. The comments will give you hints as to what you may want to change. Do not skip this step. It'll teach you got to use i3.
neofetch --w3m --source ~/Pictures/wal/icon2.jpg
To customise what is displayed when you run neofetch or the above command, comment in/out lines in ~/.config/neofetch/config
Your set up should be identical to mines now.