dotfile-notes.md

Dotfile Notes

• Themeing applications gets a bit complicated

  • GTK applications can be themed with lxappearance, but nwg-look seems to work better
  • KDE applications use qt6, qt applications can be themed with qt6ct
  • Would be wise to keep both on hand
  • KDE applications also can support kvantum themes, installed with kvantum
  • libadwaita-without-adwaita-git from the AUR makes libadwaita applications respect the system GTK theme

• Decide if I want mostly GTK applications or KDE applications

  • Get GTK apps

Misc packages

power-profiles-daemon for power profile management, integrates with Waybar

Required applications

• Look into the gnome suite - everything I can install without installing gnome itself

Useful applications

• hyprpicker Terminal color picker for Hyprland

Clipboard history

• cliphist
• wl-clip-persist enables clipboard history to be preserved after source application is closed
• wl-clipboard dependency
• wtype allows for automatic virtual keypresses if so desired

File browser

• Thunar
• Needs tumbler installed for image previews

Waybar modules I'm interested in for basic theme

• Left: Window title, application cycling thingy?
• Center: Workspaces
• Right: Volume, CPU, Temp, MEM, Brightness, Battery, date/time, tray (figure out how to style network & bluetooth? custom waybar modules? maybe check that guy's dotfiles)

Audio

• pipewire audio backend
• wireplumber audio server
• pipewire-pulse to connect pipewire to pulseaudio applications
• pavucontrol for GUI audio control

Clock

• ntp package has network time sync service. I would think this would get installed by default? whatever.

Styling for starter style

• Green-ish color for now 5BCE22
• Maroon for "off" or "bad" CC2014
• Yellow / goldenrod for "warning" FFD700 (Gold in CSS colors)
• Use a proportional nerd font to center icons correctly e.g. ZedMono NFP

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INSTALL SCRIPT ORDER OF OPERATIONS

• Install command line utilities
• Install and build yay
• Install hyprland core
• Install system bus applications & daemons (check what's installed already?)
• Install desktop accessories & customization
• Install other misc applications
• Stow dotfiles
• Modify sddm files - symlink background images folder to .backgrounds?
• Append bootloader conf - add "quiet splash"
• Modify / overwrite mkinitcpio
• Append ShowDelay=0 to /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
• Set Plymouth theme - will rebuild initramfs

APPS

Command line utilities

• git (No, need this to clone repo! will have to be installed manually)

• base-devel

• bash-completion

• btop

• neovim

• zsh

• stow

• sed

• yay (clone from aur)s

Base hyprland

• hyprland
• xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
• qt5-wayland
• qt6-wayland

System bus & daemons

• pipewire
• pipewire-pulse
• wireplumber
• blueman for bluetooth
• brightnessctl
• cliphist
• wl-clipboard
• wl-clip-persist (aur)
• polkit-gnome
• networkmanager
• network-manager-applet
• tumbler

Desktop accessories & prettying

• plymouth
• plymouth-theme-dark-arch (aur)
• waybar
• wlogout (aur)
• sddm
• sddm-theme-corners-git (aur)
• swww
• wofi
• mako
• grim
• swappy
• ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd
• ttf-zed-mono-nerd
• hyprpicker (aur)
• hypridle
• hyprlock
• ntp
• pywal-16-colors (aur)
• imagemagick
• starship

GTK utilities / desktop apps

• fileroller
• pavucontrol
• thunar
• thunar-archive-plugin (?)
• nwg-look
• qt6ct
• kvantum
• cutefish-icons
• gnome-text-editor
• cheese

Media and extras

• tidal-hifi-bin (aur)

• python-pyfiglet

• inkscape

• libreoffice-fresh

• loupe

• snapper

• snp (aur)