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WARNING

The installation guide is under construction, try it at your own risk!

It is also ment only for Arch based systems. All other distros are not supported and I will not be helping with issues related to them.

📁 Cloning the dotfiles ​

bash
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://github.com/Skiftstar/dotfiles.git
cp -r dotfiles/* ~/

NOTE

The names of the packages are from the AUR and Arch Repos; adapt them to your system. Most of the packages are available on other distros official repos (most of the time out-to-date).

WARNING

Make sure to enable multilib in pacman first! edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment multilib block so it looks like this:

bash
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

💿 Install yay ​

bash
sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

📦 Base Packages ​

bash
yay -Sy hyprland hyprlock hypridle xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland hyprpicker \
        swww rofi-wayland swaync wl-clipboard cliphist \
        swayosd-git gnome-disk-utility devify polkit-gnome playerctl \
        grim slurp imagemagick cargo bluez blueman unzip \
        kitty pavucontrol nemo mirage zathura-pdf-mupdf \
        mpv fastfetch fzf nano lite-xl hyprpolkitagent obsidian

NOTE

If hyprland is installed via archinstall, you might need to remove dunst as notification manager

bash
sudo pacman -R dunst

🌐 Browser ​

bash
yay -Sy zen-browser-bin

Change Default Browser:

bash
unset BROWSER
xdg-settings set default-web-browser zen-alpha.desktop

Extensions see here

🎮 Gaming (and Discord, etc) ​

NOTE

Steam option: lib32-vulkan-radeon

bash
yay -Sy discord discord-canary steam gamescope \
    wine spotify spicetify-cli telegram-desktop \
    modrinth-app youtube-music-bin heroic-games-launcher-bin

🔧 Development ​

bash
yay -Sy neovim code python \
    nodejs python-ipykernel python-pip \
    ctags nvm teams-for-linux ripgrep \
    pyenv docker bruno

🔊 Audio Service ​

Firstly, install these dependencies:

bash
yay -Sy pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber alsa-utils

Now enable pipewire and wireplumber systemd services:

bash
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire wireplumber

NOTE

If Audio is not working but pipewire is running, maybe restart the whole Audio stack

bash
systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse

🎨 Color Theme ​

To install the color theme for GTK and QT apps use the following command:

bash
yay -Sy catppuccin-gtk-theme-macchiato catppuccin-cursors-macchiato \
        qt5ct qt5-wayland qt6-wayland kvantum kvantum-qt5 nwg-look

📸 Icon Theme ​

First off, we have to download the icon package from the releases page of their repo. You can do it very easily by using curl.

bash
curl -LJO https://github.com/ljmill/catppuccin-icons/releases/download/v0.2.0/Catppuccin-SE.tar.bz2

Once you have that, its time to extract the compressed package.

bash
tar -xf Catppuccin-SE.tar.bz2

And finally, move them to the ~/.local/share/icons directory.

bash
mv Catppuccin-SE ~/.local/share/icons/

🗛 Fonts ​

Install the following fonts:

bash
yay -Sy noto-fonts ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono \
        ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common ttf-font-awesome noto-fonts-cjk ttf-ms-win11-auto

After that, be sure to refresh the font cache:

bash
fc-cache -fv

➕ Post Installation ​

Post Installation make sure to run the post-install script:

bash
chmod +x ~/.config/install-scripts/install.sh
~/.config/install-scripts/install.sh

This will handle:

  • Enabling bluetooth
  • Settings Git crednetials manager to "store"
  • Running Spicetify setup
  • Removing MiHoYo Telemetry
  • Firefox themeing (to remove topbar, etc) (DISABLED RN)

Reboot! ​