Max Moser's Dotfiles

This repository is a collection of configuration files that improve the handling of some applications for me personally.
Its aim is to provide an efficient keyboard-centric workflow, while not being too hard on the eye.

Probably one of the highlights is the small desktop environment that it builds with sway, including the following features:

• Nord theme
• Background image straight from the Tyrolean Alps
• Keyboard-centric operation (including moving the cursor via hotkeys)
• Hotkeys for managing multiple monitors
• Hotkeys for connecting to Wi-Fi or VPN
• Screenshots
• Screen locking
• Night-time color correction
• etc.

Do I need to use all configs together?

Even though some of the configurations are meant to be used together (e.g. sway and waybar), others can be used completely stand-alone (e.g. tmux and vim).

Note about outdated configs

I've been using sway (Wayland) over i3 (X11) for quite a while now, so the configuration for the latter has become a bit stale. At some point these outdated configs might fall victim to some clean-up operation.

Installation

This repository is designed to be easily usable with GNU Stow.
To install the dotfiles for any of the applications, simply issue the command:

$ stow -t ~ <TARGET>

zsh

Before installing the zsh dotfiles, make sure that Oh My Zsh is installed.

Usage

sway

Many of the following hotkeys work with i3 as well as sway, but the former has been neglected for quite a while now.

Note: For many of these hotkeys, both Win and Alt can be used as modifier.

Applications

• Win+d: Application launcher
• Win+Shift+d: Executable launcher
• Win+Enter: Launch terminal emulator
• Win+e: Launch file explorer (via xdg-open)

Windows

• Alt+h/j/k/l: Select window to the left/up/down/right
• Alt+Tab: Select next window
• Alt+Shift+Tab: Select previous window
• Alt+Shift+h/j/k/l: Move selected window to the left/up/down/right
• Alt+a: Focus parent container
• Alt+Shift+a: Focus child container
• Alt+Shift+f: Toggle fullscreen
• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+f: Toggle fullscreen (over all screens)
• Alt+Shift+q: Kill window

Workspaces

• Alt+[1-9]: Select workspace by number
• Win+[1-9]: Select workspace by number (with no auto-back-and-forth)
• Alt+Shift+[1-9]: Move selected window to workspace
• Alt+n: Select next workspace on focused monitor
• Alt+p: Select previous workspace on focused monitor
• Alt+Shift+n: Create new workspace

Notifications

• Control+Shift+Comma: Dismiss current notification
• Control+Shift+Grave: Restore previous notification
• Control+Shift+Period: Choose action for current notification

Screenshots

• Print: Current screen (to new file)
• Control+Print: All screens (to clipboard)
• Shift+Print: Selected area (to new file)
• Alt+Print: All screens (to new file)
• Control+Shift+Print: Selected area (to clipboard)
• Control+Alt+Print: All screens (to clipboard)

Menus

• Alt+r: Resize windows (with h/j/k/l)
• Alt+m: Monitor management (move focused monitor, ...)
• Alt+Shift+m: Mouse management (move cursor, click, ...)
• Alt+Esc: Power/Session management (logout, lock screen, power off, ...)
• Alt+Shift+v: Simple VPN management
• Control+Alt+Shift+v: Manual VPN management
• Control+Alt+Shift+w: Select wi-fi connection

Container Layouts

• Alt+Shift+s: Stacking layout
• Alt+Shift+w: Tabbed layout
• Alt+Shift+e: Split layout (toggle horizontal/vertical split)
• Ctrl+Alt+i: Split orientation: horizontal
• Ctrl+Alt+o: Split orientation: vertical
• Ctrl+Alt+p: Split orientation: toggle (horizontal/vertical)

Floating Windows

• Alt+Space: Toggle focus floating windows
• Alt+Shift+Space: Toggle floating layout for current window

Other

• Alt+Shift+p: Select an output and mirror/present it

Requirements

sway

Default Programs

• foot: Terminal Emulator
• mako: Notification Daemon
• kanshi: Multihead Profile Manager
• waybar: Status Bar
• rofi: Application Launcher
• swaylock: Screen Locker
• swayidle: Automatic Screen Locking
• pulseaudio: Audio Control
• playerctl: Audio Player Control
• brightnessctl: Backlight Control
• gammastep: Color Correction
• dex: Autostart applications launcher

Script Dependencies

• bash: Interpreter for scripts
• python3: Scripting Language
• imagemagick: Image manipulation (screen locking)
• python-pillow: Imaging Library (for splitting screenshots for swaylock)
• grim: Screen Capture Utility
• slurp: Screen Area Selection Utility (screenshots)
• wl-copy (wl-clipboard): Clipboard Utility (screenshots)
• jq: JSON Processor (for parsing IPC messages)
• polkit: Authorization Manager (for allowing normal users to reboot, etc.)
• geoclue: Geoinformation service (for color correction)
• wl-mirror: Tool for mirroring outputs

waybar

• pavucontrol: PulseAudio GUI
• brightnessctl: Backlight Control
• networkmanager: Network Manager

Further Steps

GTK Theme

To install the Nordic (bluish accent) GTK theme, the packaged files have to be extracted into ~/.themes:

$ mkdir ~/.themes
$ tar -xf Nordic-bluish-accent.tar.xf -C ~/.themes

Note: To install the theme system-wide, extract it into /usr/share/themes instead.

Then, the GTK settings for both GTK 2 and 3 have to be updated:

~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-theme-name="Nordic-bluish-accent"

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
gtk-theme-name = Nordic-bluish-accent