volcain-io / dotfiles

Dotfiles for Arch LInux, ZSH, VIM and other stuff

dotfiles

These are my dotfiles! I am using these files currently on Manjaro Linux. So these files should work on Arch Linux based distros. I didn't test the Makefile file yet. So use it on your own risk. Below you will find a couple of screenshots and more details which programs I use on my machine.

Install

Caution: Not tested. Use at your own risk.

cd ~
git clone http://github.com/volcain-io/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
cd .dotfiles && make

Screenshots

Three monitor setup

This is actual my setup at home with three monitors in total.

Left monitor is connected via HDMI. Right monitor via VGA. Middle screen is my laptop monitor, which is also the main screen.

Main screen

Network

WiFi

Setup of connecting and disconnecting to a WiFi network is pretty simple and straightforward. I simply start wifi-menu on left mouse click and the terminal opens up to configure my network connection. See [module/wifi] inside polybar config file for more details.

Wireguard

The flag inside polybar turns on/off accordingly to show me the status of wireguard. I use a simple script to start/stop wireguard (wg-status inside the .localbin folder), which needs to run as sudo. Therefore the script will prompt for sudo password, if you want to start or stop the service.

State	Description	Screenshot	How To
On	Service is running.		Left mouse click on off
Off	Service not running.		Right mouse click on on

Battery

There are three states for tracking the battery state.

State	Description	Screenshot
Charging	Battery is charging. Animate text from left to right.
Discharging	System is running on battery power. Animate text from right to left.
Full	Battery fully loaded. No animation.

Dropbox

A custom script checks periodically the state of dropbox.

State	Description	Screenshot
Down	Dropbox isn't running. Daemon down.
Dead	Dropbox isn't responding.
Syncing	Files are being indexed and synchronized
In sync	All files are in sync.

System updates

A custom script checks periodically for available updates.

State	Description	Screenshot	How To
Latest	System up to date		-
Upgrade	Updates/Upgrades available		Left mouse click on upgrade (XX)

Notifications

Programs

Default Programs (=must haves)

	Name
Shell	Zsh
Zsh Framework	Oh-My-Zsh
Window Manager	i3-gaps
Terminal	st
Status Bar	polybar
AUR Helper	yay
App Launcher	rofi
System Info	ufetch
Text Editor	vim
Code/Org Editor	Spacemacs
Notifications	dunst
Screenshot	maim
Image Viewer	sxiv
Image Viewer	feh
Video Player	mpv
PDF Reader	mupdf
Password Manager	pass
Browser (main)	Firefox
Browser (secondary)	Chromium
Git browser	tig
Mail	Thunderbird
Cloud Storage	Dropbox
Image Editor	GIMP
Vector Processing	Inkscape
WYSIWYG Publishing	Scribus
RSS Client	newsboat
Document Converter	pandoc

Alternatives (=better defaults)

Original	Alternative	Usage
grep	ripgrep	Fully
cat	bat	Fully
find	fd	Evaluating
ls	exa	Fully
notify-send	dunstify	Fully
git diff	diff-so-fancy	Fully
top	htop	Fully
man	tldr	Partly

Optional Programs (=nice to have)

	Name
Flash OS images	etcher
MAC Changer	macchanger

Extras

	Name
Font (main)	Hack
Font (Spacemacs)	Adobe Source Code Pro
Font (Powerline)	Powerline Fonts
Zsh Theme	Spaceship
VIM Config	SpaceVim

Config

i3

• no auto login
• disabled login manager (lightdm)
• $mod+c opens clipboard manager
• $mod+p opens password manager
• $mod+0 opens session menu
• $mod+Print opens screenshot menu

Wallpaper

The script set-random-wallpaper sets randomly the wallpapers on start. It can be invoked from the command line, too. The script checks, how many monitors are connected and chooses randomly a wallpaper for each monitor. To set the wallpaper on each monitor feh is used. The wallpapers are stored inside the wallpapers directory.

Taking Screenshots

Custom Script: take-screenshot

Power Management

Custom Script: session-menu