Nokz Dotfiles

Step-by-step setup for new Manjaro i3wm installation.

Prerequisites

1. sudo pacman -Syyu
2. sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
3. yay -S google-chrome
4. sudo pacman -S alacritty
5. sudo pacman -S pcmanfm
6. sudo pacman -S flameshot
7. sudo pacman -S compton
8. sudo pacman -S nitrogen
9. sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-cjk

Set correct time and date

1. sudo ntpd -qg
2. sudo pacman -S ntp
3. sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Setup i3wm initially

1. Copy and Paste .i3/config
2. Copy and paste .i3status.conf
3. mod+shift+r

Swap Caps lock and Left ctrl key

1. xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap Generates .Xmodmap file
2. Copy and paste .Xmodmap dotfile from this repo.

Setup Tmux

1. sudo pacman -S tmux
2. Clone TPM Just need the tpm folder to exist
3. Copy .tmux.conf from this repo. Create your own file if it doesn't exists
4. Quit and open tmux again, or source the newly created .tmux.conf.
5. prefix(ctrl+b)+I Install plugins

Setup Terminal

1. Setup ohmyzsh
2. Reboot to set default shell
3. Setup starship
4. Setup zsh-syntax-highlighting
5. Setup zsh-autosuggestions
6. Setup zsh-history-substring-search
7. Copy and paste .zshrc
8. Install diff-so-fancy
9. Execute commands:

git config --global core.pager "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX"
git config --global interactive.diffFilter "diff-so-fancy --patch"

App Runner (mod+space)

1. sudo pacman -S rofi
2. sudo pacman -S rofi-calc
3. Setup rofi themes
4. Change in .i3/config if you want to change the style.

Set default apps

Copy .profile

Set config for pcmanfm

Copy .pcmanfm.conf

Setup Neovim

1. Install fzf
2. Install node
3. Install vim-plug:

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

4. Copy vim config files from this repo.
5. :PlugInstall

Setup color emoji

1. sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji
2. sudo nvim /etc/fonts/local.conf
3. C/P the following:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <alias>
  <family>sans-serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Sans</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Serif</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
   <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Mono</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

4. fc-cache -f -v to regenerate font cache.
5. Restart browser.

Fix sounds

1. sudo pacman -S alsa-utils pulseaudio
2. sudo pacman -S pa-applet
3. reboot

Bloats to Uninstall

sudo pacman -Rss clipit

References:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations