oasis-dots

Oasis-themed dotfiles for Arch Linux and Hyprland using Quickshell.

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🖥️ Overview

An Arch Linux desktop on Hyprland, driven from the keyboard with vim binds and modes; no need for a mouse.

• Hyprland, configured in Lua, with HyprVim for Vim-modal window management and which-key hints.
• A Quickshell desktop shell: per-monitor bars, popups, notifications, pickers, a workspace overview, a Settings panel and the lock screen.
  • It comes in swappable styles, from a clean modern look to multiple different retro gaming eras.
• Oasis color themes across everything.
• A greetd login screen that reuses the lock screen's look, with tuigreet as a fallback.

Note

Managed with GNU Stow; packages live under home/.

Requirements: Arch Linux and a Hyprland build with the Lua config API (the hl global) and the start-hyprland launcher. The current hyprland package from the Arch repos, which the installer pulls in, provides both. The Quickshell config is tested with Quickshell 0.3.1; the installer warns when qs is older.

🎹 Keyboard First, for Vim Users

Manage your GUI, TUI, and everything in-between with just a keyboard and vim modes/motions.

Oasis brings Vim to Hyprland with HyprVim and takes it even further beyond with virtual cursors, mouse emulation, and full keyboard navigation. Every menu, picker, and setting is accessed and controlled by vim modes/binds.

Screenshot, Video Recorder, Color Picker

Even the screenshot/video recorder/color picker can be steered with nothing but your keyboard.

Screenshot region selector: move, anchor and resize with hjkl, zoom with i/o

Which-key and keybind search/run

Learn the keybinds like you do in NeoVim with which-key upon submap entry. Search/run any keybind with SUPER + /:

Which-key Submaps list their keys (PSX style)

Keybind Search/Run SUPER + / fuzzy-searches binds in the mode you are in and runs the one you pick

HyprVim Command Mode

And control Hyprland via :, like Vim's Command Mode:

HyprVim Command Mode with fuzzy completion

Includes flag hints to teach arguments as you use

And Even More

• Mouse from the keyboard: SUPER + C enters the Cursor submap: hjkl moves the pointer (SHIFT for fast, CTRL for single pixels), SPACE clicks, e/y scroll, and f or t drop wl-kbptr hint labels on screen to click anything in a couple of keystrokes.
• Screen sharing: the share picker opens the workspace overview with only shareable windows, so you pick a window, a whole monitor (s) or a region (r) by keyboard.
• Scrolling capture: grab a page longer than the screen and OCR it to text in one pass.
• Displays: arrange monitors in Settings with hjkl, with a countdown that reverts anything you don't confirm.

🎨 Styles

Pick from over 15 different styles including Oasis, Modern, NeoVim, and more.

Powered by the Oasis colorscheme palettes from NeoVim, also includes over 15 different styles to choose from in combination.

Styles transform the appearance of the bar, popups, menus, pickers, fonts, sounds, transitions, and the lock screen too. Every sound can be swapped for your own: see Custom sounds and music.

Pick a style in Settings > Style (SUPER + SPACE then S) and it swaps live.

Note

Styles include: Oasis, Modern, Neovim, Terminal, CRT, NES, Game Boy, SNES, PSX, FF7, GoldenEye, PS2, TIE Fighter, Half-Life, Metroid and Reticle.

🍫 Bar Style Examples

Just a few example bars:

Oasis Default
Modern Rounded
Neovim Lualine-style
Metroid Combat visor
PSX Retro PSX

🌦️ Weather Module Examples

Just a few example weather modules:

NES Dragon Quest bars

FF7 Materia orbs

Half-Life HEV suit readout

🌤️ The weather popup in every other style

Oasis	Modern	Neovim
Terminal	CRT	Game Boy
SNES	PSX	GoldenEye
PS2	TIE Fighter	Metroid
Reticle

🔊 Volume Mixer Examples

The volume mixer in three styles:

Oasis

CRT

PSX

📸 Tour of Some Other Modules

Styles influence every popup. Each card below shows a different popup and a different style.

Settings (CRT) Settings menu: styles, colors, bar, displays, apps, power, etc	Workspace Overview (PSX) Monitors and workspaces selected via Metal Gear scope
Calendar (Gameboy) Calendar inside a Game Boy screen with time zones	Notifications (PSX) History with Do Not Disturb, filters and inline actions like Join, Open and Focus

🔒 Lock screens

Each style can bring its own lock screen, and the login screen reuses it. The skins are Oasis Gear Solid 2, The Legend of Oasis, Final Fantasy VII, GoldenEye 007 (the pause watch), CRT terminal and TIE Fighter.

Password entry works like Vim. While nothing is typed you are in NORMAL mode, where h/j/k/l move through a skin's menus. i or any other printable key starts typing and shows -- INSERT -- bottom-left; Esc on an empty password goes back to NORMAL.

Oasis Gear Solid 2 Title, menu, options, memory card load, then a wrong password and a retry

The Legend of Oasis The sky runs from night to dawn, then file select, options, and a wrong password before the retry

🍭 More lock screens

Final Fantasy VII New Game, Continue?	CRT terminal A phosphor system lock
TIE Fighter Targeting computer and clearance code	GoldenEye 007 The pause watch, raised on the arm before you type

🌅 Wallpapers That Follow the World Outside

The wallpaper picks itself by the season, the time of day and the current weather from the bar. Sort your own art into <Season>/<Period>/<Weather>/ folders, such as Fall/Evening/Rain, and on a rainy fall evening each monitor has a 60% chance (weather_chance) of a rainy fall evening scene. No images ship with this repo; see the wallpaper extension to set up a collection.

_{Haunted Ruins by Mark Ferrari}

📦 Full Install (Automated)

Clone the repo to ~/dotfiles; topgrade's git step pulls it from there. ~/.config/hypr and ~/.config/quickshell are symlinks into this checkout, so keep it in place and do not move or delete it after installing (uninstall.sh also expects it at ~/dotfiles).

git clone https://github.com/uhs-robert/oasis-dots.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./install.sh        # full install (Arch only)
./install.sh -m     # minimal (skip AUR, Rust, system files and services)
./install.sh --server # headless: shell/CLI/dev packages and configs only
./install.sh -y     # auto-confirm all prompts
./uninstall.sh      # remove symlinks

Installs system packages, AUR packages, fonts, and dev tools, then stows dotfiles into ~/. Prompts for optional components (greetd, Steam, Nvidia, dev runtimes).

When it finishes, reboot. Without greetd you can instead log out and run start-hyprland from a TTY, unless you installed Nvidia drivers or xone.

What the installer touches outside your home directory

It uses sudo for these; the flags in brackets skip them.

• Packages through pacman and paru [--no-aur for paru], the rustup toolchain with both stable and nightly [--no-cargo] and the latest Maple Mono NF release, unpinned, in /usr/local/share/fonts.
• /etc: vtrgb-oasis, keyd/default.conf and two pacman hooks; /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share/betterbird-autoconfig for the voxtype GPU and Betterbird autoconfig helpers, which also patch /opt/betterbird when it exists [--no-system-files].
• /root: links root's .zshrc, .zsh_plugins.txt, Neovim and Yazi config to yours, and adds yazi-root and a /usr/local/sbin/yazi wrapper, after a prompt [--no-system-files].
• greetd, after a prompt: /etc/greetd, /etc/tuigreet, /usr/local/bin/tuigreet-oasis, the Quickshell greeter in /etc/greetd/quickshell, /usr/local/bin/qs-greeter and /var/lib/qs-greeter, then enables greetd [--no-services]. Save a picture as ~/.face first and it becomes your avatar on the login screen.
• Your login shell is changed to zsh, and keyd and power-profiles-daemon are enabled [--no-services].
• Steam, after a prompt: native Steam enables [multilib] in /etc/pacman.conf and runs a full pacman -Syu, Flatpak Steam installs flatpak and adds a system-wide Flathub remote; the optional xone driver builds a DKMS kernel module [--no-services].
• Nvidia drivers, after a prompt [--no-services].
• voxtype adds you to the input group [--no-services].
• An SSH server, after a prompt that -y never answers: installs tailscale and openssh, adds /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/10-tailnet-only.conf (key login only, no root, Tailscale addresses only) and enables tailscaled and sshd [--no-services]. Run it later with just ssh-server.

If stow reports a conflict with an existing file, the installer shows stow's error and carries on; move the conflicting files aside and run just stow <package>. Never use stow --adopt, which moves your files into the repo.

Flags: --no-aur, --no-cargo, --no-system-files, --no-services, --dev, --server.

--server is for headless machines: it installs the [CORE] [SYSTEM] [CLI] [DEV] sections of packages/arch.ini plus [SHELL] [CLI] from packages/arch-aur.ini, stows the [SERVER] list from packages/stow.ini, and skips fonts, Rust, greetd, and the desktop services.

⌨️ Getting Started, Your First Five Keys

Key	Does
SUPER + SPACE	Leader: a which-key menu of everything; SPACE then opens Start, S Settings
SUPER + /	Search and run the keybinds of the mode you are in
SUPER + O	Apps picker
ALT + TAB	Workspace overview, move around with hjkl. Press ? for help.
SUPER + V	HyprVim NORMAL mode for moving windows and workspaces; SUPER + ESCAPE leaves it

The Hyprland README and the Quickshell README have the rest. To rebind anything, see Changing keybinds.

🔗 External Repos

Some configs live in their own repositories, listed in packages/repos.ini: Oasis themes (oasis.nvim), HyprVim, keeptabs, rob-bin, the qutebrowser site styles, and the Neovim config. The installer clones them into repos/ inside this checkout (gitignored) and the dotfiles reference them from there, so nothing depends on where you keep your code.

./install.sh           # clone read-only copies into repos/ over HTTPS
./install.sh --dev     # clone into ~/Development over SSH and link repos/ to them, for editing
just repos             # set up repos/ only, without the full install (accepts --dev)
just update-repos      # pull the copies in repos/ (linked dev clones are skipped)

topgrade runs just update-repos as a custom command, so a normal topgrade keeps the repos current. HyprVim's own updater is turned off because its clone tracks main and is pulled the same way.

Forks can change the dev directory (default ~/Development) and the GitHub owner that --dev clones over SSH (default uhs-robert) with GITHUB_DIR and GITHUB_ORG, either in the environment (GITHUB_DIR=~/src ./install.sh --dev) or in an ignored install.local at the repo root holding plain GITHUB_DIR=... and GITHUB_ORG=... lines. The environment wins over the file.

A repo that already exists under ~/Development/<section>/<name> is always linked rather than cloned again. ~/.local/share/dotfiles/repos points at repos/ for shell and Hyprland configs that need a fixed path.

To use your own Neovim config, set NVIM_CONFIG_REPO to owner/name or a git URL before installing. An existing ~/.config/nvim is never replaced.

NVIM_CONFIG_REPO=you/nvim ./install.sh

🧩 Partial Install (Manual Stow)

If you don't want to install the full dotfiles then you may also manually stow the individual packages that you want. Theme files, HyprVim and the qutebrowser styles are symlinks into repos/, so run just repos first to set those up (see External Repos).

stow -d home <package>     # deploy a package
stow -d home -D <package>  # remove a package

The git package reads your [user] block from ~/.config/git/identity, which is gitignored so each machine can use its own address. ./install.sh prompts for it when missing; to write it by hand:

printf '[user]\n\tname = NAME\n\temail = EMAIL\n' > ~/.config/git/identity

📁 Yazi

Plugin management with ya pkg and a root Yazi that stays in sync with your keymap. See home/yazi/.config/yazi/README.md.

🛠️ Justfile

Common tasks are wrapped in a justfile (run with just). With just, you can just run:

just                  # list recipes
just stow <package>   # symlink one package
just unstow <package> # remove one package's symlinks
just install          # run install.sh
just uninstall        # run uninstall.sh
just sync-root-yazi   # regenerate root's Yazi keymap from the user's
just update-repos     # pull the external repos cloned into repos/
just ssh-server       # opt in to an SSH server reachable only over Tailscale

✉️ Betterbird / tbkeys

Vim-style keybindings for Betterbird through the tbkeys add-on, with a Neovim compose bridge. See home/thunderbird/README.md.

🍭 Extras

Configs you import into other apps by hand, and companion setups that live in their own repositories. None of them are stowed.

Tool	Extra
HeliBoard	oasis-termux/extras/heliboard
Tabliss	extras/tabliss
Termux	oasis-termux
Vimium	extras/vimium

📜 License

GPL-3.0. Bundled third-party pieces keep their own licenses: the fonts in the Quickshell config (SIL Open Font License, see its fonts/README.md), the weather icons (MIT, see assets/weather/LICENSE), the Bibata cursor themes (GPL-3.0), and the vendored tmux and Yazi plugins and flavors (see each one's own files).