dot-files

Repository for all of my dot files.

These are pretty exclusively used on Arch/EndeavourOS but most are compatible with Fedora, RHEL, and even macOS.

I prefer EndeavourOS over basic Arch these days due to:

• Calamares makes installation fast.
• Inclusion of yay, inxi, etc. upfront.
• Easy post-install configuration scripts.
• dracut by default.
• MDNS with Avahi is preconfigured.
• Cleanup scripts.

Basically, if you're a long-time Arch user, EndeavourOS has sensible defaults that a large majority of the community already rely on.

EndeavourOS i3 Checklist

My i3 environment in EndeavourOS uses the xfce4 bar instead of another bar. Assuming you are on a fresh EndeavourOS install of i3, these commands install requirements. Pure Arch installs may require additional packages and configuration.

From pacman:

pacman -Sy alacritty blueman dex dunst fcitx5-im feh keychain nerd-fonts networkmanager network-manager-applet libpulse picom polkit polkit-gnome rofi seahorse thunar tmux ttf-fira-code unicode-emoji xfce4 xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin xfce4-screenshooter xss-lock

From AUR:

yay -Sy betterlockscreen gtk-engine-murrine pamac-aur qogir-gtk-theme rofi-power-menu

Configure:

• Blueman: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blueman
• Fcitx5: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fcitx5
• NetworkManager: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager
  • Don't forget to configure firewall!
• Polkit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit
• Betterlockscreen: https://github.com/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreen

Add to .profile:

eval $(keychain --eval --quiet id_ed25519)

Add to .xprofile:

# fcitx5 configuration
GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx

# Pass XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to systemd for user units
systemctl --user import-environment XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

This would also be a good time to install and configure satpaper and Jetbrains Toolbox.

For satpaper, you need to copy over the systemd user unit and scripts/update_wallpaper.sh.

Do all of this before you copy over .config/i3/config and .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/* from dot-files. These should be the last things you copy.