beyond9thousand dotfiles

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• Information
• Specifications
• Showcase
  • Tokyo Night Colorscheme
  • Application Launcher
  • Right-click Application Menu
  • Notifications
  • Drop-down Systray
• Fonts
• Configuration
• Dependencies
  • Packages
  • Environment Variables
  • Miscellaneous
• Troubleshooting
• Credits

:pencil: Information

My configuration is personalized to utilize keyboard shortcuts as well as mouse actions to keep my workflow meaningful and flexible under varying conditions.

:mag: Specifications

:camera: Showcase

##### Tokyo Night Colorscheme Tokyo night colorscheme ported from [zatchheems](https://github.com/zatchheems/tokyo-night-alacritty-theme) for alacritty ##### Application Launcher A slightly modified version of the fancy rofi app launcher found on [siduck's repo](https://github.com/siduck/chadwm/tree/main/rofi) ##### Right-click Application Menu

The menu is spawned with the help of [xqp](https://github.com/baskerville/xqp) (or X Query Pointer) which prints the ID of the window under the pointer. This is used to check if RMB is being triggered on an empty space, which then calls `jgmenu` to spawn out from the position of the pointer. This method works most accurately since it allows you to spawn the application menu even if your current desktop is occupied (assuming you have gaps between windows)

##### Notifications Dunst for a simple notification daemon. ##### Drop-down Systray

Stalonetray is run at bootup and hid right after using [xdo](https://github.com/baskerville/xdo). [`system_tray.zsh`](https://github.com/beyond9thousand/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/eww/shell/system_tray.zsh) is integrated into the eww bar to hide or unhide the tray icons on demand.

:ab: Fonts

:gear: Configuration

Create a backup of your dotfiles (if any). Take a look at this article for a more long term solution, thank me later. Now clone this repository and symlink the respective files.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beyond9thousand/dotfiles $HOME/Downloads/b9k_dotfiles
ln -s $HOME/Downloads/b9k_dotfiles/.config/* $HOME/.config/

Mark binaries as executable

chmod u+x $HOME/.bin/* $HOME/.local/bin/*

Install the fonts mentioned in the previous section.

:pushpin: Dependencies

Environment Variables

Copy the .profile to your $HOME directory to set the correct environment variables at startup

• Refer to XDG Base Directory for more details

Packages

:warning: The following instructions have only been written for arch-based distros Install an AUR helper of your choice

• Using the yay helper

yay -S --needed \
sxhkd bspwm alacritty zsh neovim stalonetray \
plank dunst rofi jgmenu xprintidle i3lock-color zathura \
broot fzf mpv neofetch ranger ueberzug xdo perl cava \
xbanish xss-lock pavucontrol nitrogen flameshot exa bat copyq \
maim ant-dracula-kvantum-theme-git ant-dracula-theme-git \
papirus-icon-theme kvantum pacman-contrib xorg-xbacklight \
imagemagick

• Install eww by following the instructions here

Miscellaneous

• powerlevel10k as a prompt theme for zsh

:rotating_light: Troubleshooting

Topics mentioned in this section may not necessarily be relevant to the ricing setup. It includes obscure erros that I have run into in my time using linux.

Backlight

To allow users in the video group to change the brightness, a udev rule such as the following can be used:

#/etc/udev/rules.d/backlight.rules
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", RUN+="/bin/chgrp video $sys$devpath/brightness", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w $sys$devpath/brightness"

• Refer to Backlight for better coverage on the subject

:sparkles: Credits

• pagankeymaster for his extensive research on bspwm & eww
• elkowar for his fantastic work on the eww widget framework
• Excellent neovim config by NvChad bspwm scripts
• Beautiful wallpaper artwork created by BisBiswas
• Some configs have been derived from axyl-os