Dotfiles for Arch Linux

general windows management

• i3-wm
• polybar
• i3lock-color - i3lock with more customisation

fonts and colouring

• mixture of gruvbox and base16-tomorrow-night
• gtk theme
• regular font - overpass
• terminal font - FuraMono Nerd Font

browser

• browser is firefox, customised with userChrome.css

terminal

• emulator is urxvt
• shell is zsh
• shell prompt is custom, see zshrc

utilities

• editors - vim
• pdf viewer - zathura
• notifications - dunst
• launcher - rofi

packages

• for a recorded list of all installed packages:
  • pacman -Qqen > ~/dotfiles/packages/packages.txt for official Arch packages
  • pacman -Qqem > ~/dotfiles/packages/aurpackages.txt for aur packages

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Symlinking

a useful guide for explaining symlinks with stow

• install gnu stow to allow simple symlinks

• put config files into a single (git) folder in the structure above

• change into repo and use stow [package name] to link into config location e.g. stow zathura creates a symlink to ~/.config/zathura