dotfiles

My dotfiles for my Arch Linux setup. It makes your desktop look beautiful, and has lots of useful custom hotkeys.

Installation and setup

Install the official packages

Using pacman:

sudo pacman -S calcurse cmus firefox keepassxc mpv ranger redshift rofi rxvt-unicode vim zsh

Install the secondary packages

These can be downloaded from the Arch User Respositories, or you can download them from their git repositories.

• castero
• compton-tryone-git
• i3-gaps-rounded-git
• pywal
• youtube-viewer

Using yay

yay -S castero compton-tryone-git i3-gaps-rounded-git python-pywal youtube-viewer

todo.txt setup

You will need to make some manual changes if you want to use my todo.txt setup.

In your todo.cfg file located in ~/Scripts/todo/todo.cfg change

export TODO_DIR="/home/cody/Sync/Todo"

to whatever directory you will be using for your todo.txt files.

Hotkeys

Rebound i3 hotkeys

Change focus

• Super + h: Change focus to left window
• Super + j: Change focus to right window
• Super + k: Change focus to lower window
• Super + h: Change focus to upper window

Move windows

• Super + Shift + h: Move focused window left
• Super + Shift + j: Move focused window down
• Super + Shift + k: Move focused window up
• Super + Shift + h: Move focused window right

Horizontal/Vertical splits

• Super + i: Split window vertically
• Super + o: Split window horizontally

Custom hotkeys

• Ctrl + Super + Esc: put your computer in hibernation (see: Arch Wiki: Power Management#Hibernation)
• Ctrl + Super + c: open calcurse
• Ctrl + Super + e: open Vim
• Ctrl + Super + f: open Firefox
• Ctrl + Super + k: kill polybar
• Ctrl + Super + m: open cmus
• Ctrl + Super + p: open castero
• Ctrl + Super + w: change your wallpaper (and keyboard LEDs if using my msi-pywal-keycolors script). Unless you have an MSI laptop like I do, you will want delete or comment out this line from ~/.local/bin/wal-scripts:

  sh keycolors 
  

• Ctrl + Super + y: open youtube-viewer video search (videos open in mpv)
• Ctrl + Super + z: open youtube-viewer channel search (videos open in mpv)