My linux setup. At home, this is Arch. A work in progress.
- wm: i3
- bar: polybar
- lock: xautolock, i3lock
- composite manager: compton
- terminal: urxvt
- app launcher: rofi
- image viewer: feh
- pdf viewer: zathura
WARNING: this will overwrite any existing dotfiles, so back them up first.
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/avanpo/.env.git
./.env/setup.sh
# or if setting up a server...
# ./.env/setup_server.shInstalling to ~/.env is required, all configs assume this to be the location
of scripts and various media.
All configuration custom to a machine should go into a file located at
~/.config/bashrc. This file is sourced at the end of ~/.bashrc.
For local machine installed using setup.sh, this file should contain the
following environment variable:
export SETUP=laptop
Optional vars:
# for the polybar weather script
export OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY=key
Some useful packages:
$ sudo pacman -S usbutils
To troubleshoot keyboard mappings and i3 configuration, use xmodmap -pke to
get current keycode mappings and sudo evtest to get the codes when certain
keys are pressed.
On the Zephyrus G14, the mute mic button didn't map as expected. This should be fixed in a future kernel release.
Both xorg-backlight and acpilight packages provide the tool xbacklight,
which controls brightness.
This requires root but both packages install udev rules that allow users to change them. Note that they are different rules, so installing one over the other will require a restart.
On the Zephyrus G14, xorg-backlight didn't work (or show any errors). Installing
acpilight fixed the problem (after rebooting).
Note that acpilight does not appear to work with polybar's xbacklight module,
but it's possible to use the backlight module instead (by setting the card).
One can use i3lock for screen locking and xautolock to auto lock after some
period of inactivity.
My 'lock.sh' script also uses scrot to take a screenshot and convert
(imagemagick) to edit it.
$ sudo pacman -S pulseaudio
Restart for pulseaudio and pactl to start working.
$ sudo pacman -S mpd mpc ncmpcpp
$ systemctl --user enable mpd.service
Note that to check status with systemctl, the --user flag must also be used.
We use ranger for browsing files, and w3m for image previews.
$ sudo pacman -S ranger w3m
We use zathura for PDFs and other documents.
$ sudo pacman -S zathura zathura-djvu zathura-pdf-mupdf
$ xdg-mime default org.pwmt.zathura.desktop application/pdf
I use vim for all text editing. vim-plug is used for plugins. Some useful commands:
:PlugInstall // install new plugins
:PlugUpdate // update plugins
:PlugUpgrade // upgrade vim-plug
- Pip install in setup.