D's Ultimate Desktop Environment

About it

Dude's principles:

• For X11, WM agnostic
• Plain text file (yaml) configurable
• Simple consistent UX - cli & GTK3 launcher
• Modular Monolith

Features

• GTK Launcher
• Brightness control - with AC/Battery brightness auto adjust
• Startup apps support (~/.config/autostart/)
• Display profiles
• Pass integration
• Bluetooth and WIFI (iwd) support

Dependencies

• feh - for background image
• picom - compositor for x11
• xss-lock - bridges an x screensaver to systemd's login manager
• xsecurelock - X11 screen lock utility designed for security
• acpi - for battery info and AC/Battery adjustments
• pass - password manager
• xdotool - command-line X11 automation tool - pass dependency for auto fill
• polkit-gnome - gtk polkit-agent
• brightnessctl - brightness control for X/wayland and driver agnostic
• tmux
• alacritty
• bluez/bluez-utils - bluetooth management
• iwd - wifi management
• udiskie/udisk2 - auto mount of removable media

Using dude with i3

Add the lines below to your ~/.config/i3/config:

set $dude /usr/bin/dude

## Start dude session
exec --no-startup-id $dude session
# Keybinds
bindsym $mod+space exec --no-startup-id $dude launcher
bindsym $mod+Return exec $dude terminal
bindsym $mod+l exec $dude lock-screen

bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec $dude brightness up
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec $dude brightness down

bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id $dude audio vol-up
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id $dude audio vol-down
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id $dude audio vol-mute
bindsym XF86AudioMicMute exec --no-startup-id $dude audio mic-mute

Credits

• Dude uses a modified version iwd.
• Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com/
• Icons used on Launcher are from FontAwesome and are under CC BY 4.0 License