Installing required packages and other stuffs:
Install the following packages
sudo nala install curl polybar rofi zsh tmux feh vim exa neofetch fzf git brightnessctl flameshot picom bat ripgrep fd-find fonts-font-awesome acpi arandr
Careful when installing sddm
installing nix package manager
sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
Also if nix is not available system wide after installing the deamon, here is the fix .
Install themes and icons separately by copying them into .icons and .themes.
Libinput-gestures for touchpad gestures
Alacritty building from source
Just few commands that I seem to forget overnight:
xinput --list | xinput --list-props <id>
xev
showkey -[k|a]
rg -> ripgrep
fc-cache -v
fc-list
First installing oh-my-zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
And zsh plugins
zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
Also configure zsh-syntax-highlighting catppuccin theme
git clone https://github.com/catppuccin/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
cd zsh-syntax-highlighting/themes/
cp -v catppuccin_mocha-zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh ~/.zsh/
Finally copy the .config/.zshrc to ~/.zshrc and source .zshrc.
sudo nala install tmux or nix-env -iA nix-pkgs.tmux
Installing TPM
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
We need i3 version 4.22^. Check if it is present in native pkgs otherwise, first download i3 tar and then build from source
Copy the i3 folder to $USER/.config/i3
and if i3 is not in the session, copy the i3.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions/
Then setup Lazyvim or
apt install lazygit ripgrep fd-find
then simply copy-pasta the nvim-lazy to $USER/.config/nvim
In the crontab -e:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/bgw.sh