- paru or your preferred aur helper (adjust instructions accordingly if you choose your own).
- git
The package list in this repo contains all of the packages that I like to install. Feel free to edit this list as you wish before installing from the list. You can add comments by starting the line with a # and you can add blank lines to separate blocks of packages.
The command below will install everything separated by a newline. The grep part of the command is excluding all of the comments that are prefixed with a # and it is excluding all blank lines.
paru -S $(grep -Ev '^#|^$' nescafe-dotfiles/packagelist.txt) --needed
You should already have zsh installed as it is the default on arch and if you used my install script.
First you will need to copy the zshenv file over to your home folder.
Usually your .zshrc and the plugins (which are just .zsh scripts that are sourced in the .zshrc) would also go directly into your home folder. However, I try to keep my home folder de-cluttered, when I can be bothered. Therefore, my zshrc and plugins are located in ~/.config/zsh.
The reason why the .zshenv file is directly in the home folder is because without it being there, it wouldn't be possible to move a config file/directory to a different location than what the program is expecting.
The way I move the zshrc and other programs' config files is through the use of environment variables that were programmed into the applications themselves. These variables are usually just a path to another location of the config file/directory.
For example, the .zshenv file has only the following variable inside: ZDOTDIR=$HOME/.config/zsh
This variable is telling zsh to look inside ~/.config/zsh for the .zshenv, .zshrc, etc. file(s).
- Copy the config file, which contains the zsh configuration inside of $HOME/.config/zshrc, to your home directory. The zsh configuration folder contains a file where I define all of my environment variables, it is located in $HOME/.config/zsh/cfg_parts/env.zsh
NOTE TO SELF. ADD BLING MODULE ETC AS SUBMODULES
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nescafe-gold/nescafe-dotfiles.git ~/
cd dotfiles && git submodule update --remote --merge
- Source your szhenv file, so that the environment variables defined there are applied to your current zsh shell session
source $HOME/.zshenv
Now that the ZDOTFIR variable points to $HOME/.config/zsh, we can source the .zshrc, which will source all of the other files in $HOME/.config/zsh/cfg_parts
source $HOME/.config/.zshrc
mkdir -p $HOME.local/share/fonts XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME GEM_PATH GEM_SPEC_CACHE NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG GNUPGHOME _JAVA_OPTIONS GTK2_RC_FILES ZDOTDIR CARGO_HOME FFF_TRASH GEM_HOME GOPATH NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG NPM_PACKAGES NODE_PATH $HOME/.cargo/bin $HOME/.local.bin XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_STATE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_DIRS XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_DESKTOP_DIR XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR XDG_MUSIC_DIR XDG_PICTURES_DIR XDG_VIDEOS_DIR FFF_TRASH MANPATH INFOPATH GNUPGHOME GTK2_RC_FILES
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rxyhn/dotfiles.git ~/
cd dotfiles && git submodule update --remote --merge
I chose to install LightDM as my display manager (login manager). My settings are extremely basic because I've never riced a display manager before. I will update the settings over time.
- Copy my lightdm settings.
sudo cp -r nescafe-dotfiles/lightdm /etc/lightdm
- start and enable lightdm service once I have got it set up
You have already downloaded a lot of fonts earlier from the package list; however, I have some more that can no longer be downloaded from the repos. I still have the files and they are in the font folder of this repo.
- Copy the fonts to a font directory
cp -r nescafe-dotfiles/fonts/* ~/.local/share/fonts
- Sync all of the newly installed fonts
fc-cache -fv
- Make instructions on making sure your shell is set to zsh
- Copy the config folders found in the repos to your .config folder
cp -r nescafe-dotfiles/.config/* ~/.config
I have configured the config so that it is split up into multiple parts.
The .zshrc file is setup like an index file that sources files in the cfg_parts directory. Each file in this directory is a segmenmt of the zsh config that I split up for modularity and the index file (.zshrc) puts the parts together in the necessary order.
The aliases directory is where multiple types of aliases are stored. Again, each type of alias is split up into its own file, such as applicationaliases and gitaliases. These aliases are sourced by the aliases.zsh file located in cfg_parts.
The plugins directory is where plugins not managed by Pacman and Paru are stored. At the moment z.lua is the only plugin that fits this category. The plugins in this directory are sourced by the plugins.zsh file located in cfg_parts.
The zsh-completions directory is full of files that contain autocomplete data.
history is the history file. This file is where all of your commands are stored. This allows you to scroll through the history in your terminal by using the arrow keys.
- You already copied the ZSH config to your .config earlier, when you copied the config directory located in this repo. As with any of the config files, feel free to edit them to your liking.
The file .Xresources is a config file for colorscheme information
cp nescafe-dotfiles/.Xresources ~/
sudo cp -rf themes/gtk/Aesthetic-Night/* /usr/share/themes
Add this line on ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini for left controls
gtk-decoration-layout=close,maximize,minimize:men
## libinput touchpad settings
cp 30-touchpad.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
## Install Lunarvim
1. Install lunarvim and say yes to the options
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lunarvim/lunarvim/master/utils/installer/install.sh)
Copy the config file to overwrite the default one that is created
cp nescafe-dotfiles/config/lvim/config.lua ~/.config/lvim/
## Install Xanmod kernel
Designed to detect your CPU so that it only installs your CPU info. I have set the xanmod custom option to not compile dual CPU code to save even more time compiling and reduce the kernel size.