dotfiles

My small dotfiles collection for development. I generally use OS like Debian and Ubuntu with KDE. Currently trying out Arch Linux with Sway WM.

Desktop Environment

• kde plasma (traditional DE when I'm lazy)

Window Management

• sway (tiling window manager -- loving it so far!)
• waybar (wayland status bar)
• ly (display manager)
• fuzzel (application launcher)

Support

• mako (wayland notification daemon)
• slurp (wayland region selector)
• swayidle (wayland idle daemon)
• swaylock (wayland lockscreen daemon)
• pamixer (pulse audio volume mixer)
• wob (wayland overlay bar)
• libinput-gestures (support trackpad gestures)

Fonts and Themes

• JetBrains Mono (goated monospace font)
• Poppins (general font frmo Google)
• Baekmuk (collection of Korean fonts because I'm a koreaboo)
• Font Awesome (for glyphs and things)
• Catppuccin Mocha Lavender (goated pastel theme)

General

• Firefox (web browser)
  • vimium (vim-like navigation)
  • adguard (hide the ads and block the trackers)
• Spotify (music player)
  • Spicetify (spiced up)
• Discord (socializing app)
• Thunderbird (email client)
• Zathura (document browser)
  • Install zathura-pdf-mupdf to view PDFs

Computer Management

• Nemo (GUI file browser)
• Filelight (disk examiner)
• Pulse Audio Volume Control (volume controller)
• Timeshift (backup manager)
• NetworkManager (network management daemon)
  • nmcli and nmtui

CLI

• zsh (shell)
  • oh my zsh (pimp out the zsh prompts and functionality)
• fastfetch (system information rundown)
• btop (tui system monitor)
• yazi (TUI file browser)
• imv (mage viewer)
• mpv (media player)
• wf-recorder (tui screen recorder)
  • pipewire and gst-plugin-pipewire as dependencies
• wiki-tui (wikipedia text user interface)
• diff-so-fancy (pretty git diffs)

Development

• tmux (terminal multiplexer)
• virt-manager (virtual machine manager)
• docker engine (containerization)
• glow (markdown notes management)
• soft-serve (self hosted git server)

Terminal Emulators

• alacritty (fast and has copy mode but doesn't support CLI image viewing)
• kitty (fast and supports CLI image viewing but doesn't have copy mode)
• foot (lightweight but doesn't have copy mode)

Text Editors

• vim
  • using VimPlug as the package manager
  • see the .vimrc for a list of relatively minimal extensions
• nvim (trying to migrate!)
  • tree-sitter-cli (an important dependency for syntax highlighting)
  • using lazy.nvim as the package manager and mason as the LSP manager
  • also a bunch of other extensions defined in kickstart.git
• vscode (goated text editor turned IDE)
• zed (trying as an alternative!)