minimal dotfiles

simply keeping track of my dotfiles and packages.

Hyprland 0.55+ with the Lua config (.config/hypr/*.lua — the old hyprlang .conf files are kept for reference only), plus a custom desktop shell built on Quickshell that replaces waybar, rofi, dunst, nm-applet and blueman-applet.

install

Core:

pacman -S hyprland hypridle hyprlock hyprpolkitagent quickshell matugen brightnessctl power-profiles-daemon networkmanager pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber kitty dolphin kate firefox vlc vlc-plugin-ffmpeg archlinux-xdg-menu

Everything comes from the official repos — the shell deliberately needs no AUR packages, no npm/pip, and no extra groups (input/i2c are intentionally not used).

Optional GUIs (not autostarted; the shell has its own network/bluetooth/audio controls): nm-connection-editor blueman pavucontrol-qt

systemctl enable --now power-profiles-daemon for the power-profile toggle.

shell (quickshell)

Config in .config/quickshell/shell, started from Hyprland autostart as qs -c shell. Provides:

• top bar: workspaces, clock, tray, status icons
• quick settings panel: bluetooth / wi-fi / power-profile / mute toggles with expandable device pickers, volume + brightness sliders, media player card, notification history, session buttons
• notification daemon (owns org.freedesktop.Notifications — do not run dunst or mako alongside)
• app launcher (fuzzy search)
• wallpaper theming: setwallpaper.sh picks a wallpaper (awww), runs matugen, and the shell restyles itself live from ~/.local/state/quickshell/colors.json

Keybinds (see .config/hypr/configs/keybinds.lua):

key	action
SUPER+R	launcher
SUPER+N	quick settings
SUPER+SHIFT+N	clear notifications
SUPER+W	random wallpaper + retheme

IPC from scripts: qs -c shell ipc call panel toggle, ... panel launcher, ... notifications clear.

others

• fonts ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols (shell icons), adwaita-fonts (shell UI)
• mount android devices kio-extras
• mount usb devices udisks2 udiskie
• keepassxc

shell prompt (starship)

Powerline "bubble" prompt, multiline, Catppuccin Mocha.

Install (the Nerd Font is required for the separators/icons):

sudo pacman -S starship ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd

Set the terminal font to JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, then hook starship into bash by adding this line to ~/.bashrc and restarting the shell:

eval "$(starship init bash)"

The config is tracked in this repo at .config/starship.toml (hardlink it to ~/.config/starship.toml).

AUR

• Hardinfo2
• qview
• awww instead of swww

follow this gist for screen sharing

inspired from:

• https://github.com/sameemul-haque/dotfiles/tree/master
• https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz/dotfiles/tree/master
• layout ideas from https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland (shell written from scratch against the Quickshell 0.3 API)

kdenlive GPU rendering

• Install drivers/tools: sudo pacman -Syu intel-media-driver libva-utils libva ffmpeg

• Ensure user in video group: sudo usermod -aG video $USER newgrp video

• Verify VAAPI and driver: vainfo

screenshots

source https://knng.de/blog/hyprland_screenshots/

sudo pacman -S grim slurp wl-clipboard

Bound to PRINT in .config/hypr/configs/keybinds.lua:

hl.bind("PRINT", hl.dsp.exec_cmd([[grim -g "$(slurp)" - | wl-copy]]))