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ML4W dotfiles 2.7 RC4
This is my configuration of Hyprland (Wayland) and Qtile (Xorg & Wayland) for Arch. This package includes an installation script to install and setup the required components.
PLEASE NOTE: This branch is the rolling release of my dotfiles and includes the latest changes. Please be aware that this version is not a tested release.
The released dotfiles are tested with Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux, EndeavourOS and Arco Linux. (Arco Linux: Please install hyprland-git run my dotfiles.)
You can find the video on YouTube: Dotfiles Configuration and Installation
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Installation
To make it easy for you to get started with my dotfiles, here's a list of recommended next steps. The script will try to create a backup from an previous dotfiles installation.
PLEASE BACKUP YOUR EXISTING .config FOLDER WITH YOUR DOTFILES BEFORE STARTING THE SCRIPTS FOR INITIONAL INSTALLTION. PLEASE READ THIS README until the end before starting the installation.
Please note: To get the default Linux folder structure incl. Downloads, etc please install the packages xdg-user-dirs and run xdg-user-dirs-update.
Installation with GIT (Rolling Release of main branch)
# 1.) Change into your Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads
# 2.) Clone the dotfiles repository into the Downloads folder
git clone https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles.git
# 3.) Change into the dotfiles folder
cd dotfiles
# 4.) Start the installation
./install.sh
Update with GIT (Rolling Release of main branch)
# 1.) Change into your Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads/dotfiles
# 2.) Pull the latest version and update the repository
git stash; git pull
# 3.) Start the installation to update
./install.sh
Update with GIT (Rolling Release of main branch) (fresh update)
You can also update by deleting the ~/Downloads/dotfiles folder and clone again.
# 1.) Change into your Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads
# 2.) Delete existing dotfiles folder from Downloads folder
rm -rf ~/Downloads/dotfiles
# 3.) Clone the dotfiles repository into the Downloads folder
git clone https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles.git
# 4.) Change into the dotfiles folder
cd dotfiles
# 5.) Start the installation to update
./install.sh
Installation by downloading the latest release
If you don't want to use the rolling release, you can download the latest release the latest release https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/releases or choose the the latest tag https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/tags and download the zip.
# 1.) Change into your Downloads folder where you have downloaded the release to
cd ~/Downloads
# 2.) Unzip
unzip dotfiles-2.6.zip
# 3.) Change into the new dotfiles folder
cd dotfiles-2.6
# 4.) Start the installation to update
./install.sh
You can also use the dotfiles installer script to download and install the latest release: https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/installer
Installation Hook
The installation script will prepare the configuration files in a folder ~/dotfiles-versions/[version] before copying into the final destination in ~/dotfiles
If you want to modify the installation files just before the copy procedure starts, you can create a file hook.sh in the folder ~/dotfiles-versions
You can delete folders and files or update existing configurations.
#!/bin/bash
rm -rf ~/dotfiles-versions/$version/vim/
rm -rf ~/dotfiles-versions/$version/nvim/
This script will for example remove the vim and nvim folder before the installation. The symbolic link will not be created because the source folder doesn't exits.
You can find a template in .install/templates/hook.sh
Hyprland & NVIDIA
There is no official Hyprland support for Nvidia hardware. However, you might make it work properly following this page. https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/
That's why NVIDIA GPUs are currently not supported by my dotfiles. But in upcoming releases, I will try to setup Hyprland for NVIDIA based on the article above.
Display Manager SDDM
The suggested method to start Hyprland is with the tty with the command Hyprland. But I made good experiences with the Display Manager SDDM (https://github.com/sddm/sddm) but you can also install a custom issue to improve the tty based login.
Important is that you use the package sddm-git. You can replace sddm with sddm-git with
yay -S sddm-git
The dotfiles installation script will offer to deactivate the installed display manager and to activate SDDM.
The dotfiles package also includes a configuration for the SDDM theme sdd-sugar-candy (https://github.com/Kangie/sddm-sugar-candy) and a configuration to run SDDM in X11 mode to get the best compatibility.
With the Hyprland settings script you can copy the current wallpaper into SDDM and use it as a background.
Installation in a KVM virtual machine
Qtile X11 works fine in a KVM virtual machine. The Hyprland performance is low but it's enough for testing new features.
In virt-manager please make sure that 3D acceleration is enabled in Video Virtio and the Listen type is set to None in Display Spice.
To fix the mouse issue on Hyprland, open the Hyprland settings with SUPER + CTRL + S and select in Environments the variation kvm.conf
Base Hyprland installation with Hyperland Starter
If you want to install only the core packages of Hyprland as a starting point for your Hyprland experiments please also try my Hyprland Starter script: https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/hyprland-starter
Some important key bindings
- SUPER + RETURN: Alacritty
- SUPER + CMD + RETURN: rofi application launcher
- SUPER + SHIFT + W: Change wallpaper
- SUPER + PRINT: Screenshot
- SUPER + CMS + Q: Logout screen
All keybindings for Hyprland with right mouse click on Apps in waybar or here: https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/blob/main/hypr/conf/keybindings.conf
All keybindings for Qtile: https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/blob/main/qtile/config.py
Hyprland
You can find more screenshots here.
Wallpaper and Pywal
Included is a pywal configuration that changes the color scheme based on a randomly selected wallpaper. With the key binding SUPER + SHIFT + W you can change the wallpaper coming from the folder ~/wallpaper/.
SUPER + CTRL + W opens rofi with a list of installed wallpapers in ~/wallpaper/ for your individual selection.
Waybar themes and themeswitcher
In addition, you can switch the Waybar Template with SUPER + CTRL + T or by pressing the "..." icon in Waybar with the themeswitcher.
The templates are available in ~/dotfiles/waybar/themes. You can add your own personal themes into this folder.
More information here: https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/dotfiles/-/tree/main/waybar
Hyprland settings
You can open the settings script with SUPER + CTRL + S to select variations for your hyprland.conf and customize your desktop even more.
You can create custom variations by copying a file from the ~/dotfiles/hypr/conf subfolders like monitor/default.conf, give the file a custom name (e.g., mymonitor.conf) and select the variation in the settings script in the corresponding section.
You can also edit the file custom.conf which is included at the bottom of the hyprland.conf and can hold you personal configurations.
You can also edit the file directly in the settings script in the section Custom.
Screensharing and recording
In case you have issues with starting Waybar please make sure that only one xdg-desktop-portal-x is installed additionally to xdg-desktop-portal.
I had several issues with xdg-desktop-portal-wlr on Hyprland and Waybar. Please make sure that xdg-desktop-portal-wlr is uninstalled and xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland is installed.
More information you can find here: https://gist.github.com/PowerBall253/2dea6ddf6974ba4e5d26c3139ffb7580
Please note that every Arch Linux system is different and I cannot guarantee that everything works fine on your system.
Main packages
- Terminal: alacritty
- Editor: nvim
- Prompt: starship
- Icons: Font Awesome
- Launch Menus: Rofi
- Colorscheme: pywal
- Browsers: chromium (brave optional)
- Filemanager: Thunar
- Cursor: Bibata Modern Ice
- Icons: Papirus-Icon-Theme
- Status Bar: waybar
- Screenshots: grim & slurp
- Clipboard Manager: cliphist
- Logout: wlogout
- Screenlock: swaylock-effects
Qtile X11
Wallpaper and Pywal
Included is a pywal configuration that changes the color scheme based on a randomly selected wallpaper. With the key binding SUPER + SHIFT + W you can change the wallpaper coming from the folder ~/wallpaper/.
SUPER + CTRL + W opens rofi with a list of installed wallpapers in ~/wallpaper/ for your individual selection.
Qtile status bar switcher
With SUPER + SHIFT + S, you can switch between the Qtile standard status bar and Polybar and back.
Main Packages
- Terminal: alacritty
- Editor: nvim
- Prompt: starship
- Icons: Font Awesome
- Launch Menus: Rofi
- Colorscheme: pywal
- Browsers: chromium (brave optional)
- Filemanager: Thunar
- Cursor: Bibata Modern Ice
- Icons: Papirus-Icon-Theme
- Status Bar: Qtile status bar + Polybar (optional)
- Compositor: picom
- Screenshots: scrot
Wallpaper repository
You can find my wallpaper collection in the repository https://gitlab.com/stephan-raabe/wallpaper
Special Thanks
THANK YOU very much for all your support, contributions and ideas:
- Diana Ward: https://github.com/dianaw353
- Don Williams: https://github.com/dwilliam62
- Teodor Orzechowski: https://gitlab.com/sq6gtt
and many more...
Thanks to all YouTube subscribers for all your great feedback.
Inspirations
The following projects have inspired me:
- https://github.com/dianaw353/hyprland-configuration-rootfs
- https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots
- https://github.com/sudo-harun/dotfiles
and many more...