ML4W dotfiles

This is the configuration of my Arch linux based installation for Hyprland (Wayland) and Qtile (Xorg).

Common Packages

• Terminal: alacritty
• Editor: nvim
• Prompt: starship
• Icons: Font Awesome
• Menus: Rofi
• Colorscheme: pywal (dynamic)
• Browsers: brave, chromium
• Filemanager: Neutilus, ranger, Thunar
• Cursor: Bibata Modern Classic
• Icons: Kora-Icon-Theme
• Theme: Breeze-dark
• Virtual Machine: qemu (Windows 11 with looking glass and xrdp)

Hyprland

• Status Bar: waybar
• Screenshots: grim & slurp
• Clipboard Manager: cliphist
• Logout: wlogout
• Screenlock: swaylock-effects

Qtile

• Compositor: picom
• Status Bar: polybar
• Screenshots: scrot

Templating

Included is a pywal configuration that changes the color scheme based on a randomly selected wallpaper. With the key binding SuperKey + Shift + w you can change the wallpaper. SuperKey + Ctrl + w opens rofi with a list of installed wallpapers for your individual selection. See also the .bashrc and the key bindings on Hyprland and Qtile for more alias definitions.

Screenshots & Video

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Getting started

To make it easy for you to get started with my dotfiles, here's a list of recommended next steps.

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR EXISTING .config WITH YOUR DOTFILES BEFORE STARTING THE SCRIPTS.

# Make sure that you're in your home directory
cd

# Clone the repository from your home directory
git clone https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles.git

# Or download the lastest version and unzip into ~/dotfiles folder

# Change into the new dotfiles folder
cd dotfiles

# Install all required packages
./1-install.sh

# Install hyprland window manager
./2-install-hyprland.sh
# OR/AND Install qtile window manager
./2-install-qtile.sh

# Install dotfiles
./3-install-dotfiles.sh

Please note that every Arch Linux system is different and I cannot guarantee that everything works fine on your system.