README.md

   1 # My Dotfiles
   2
   3 This is the collection of dotfiles that I use on my laptop for ricing pourposes
   4
   5 ## Getting Started
   6
   7 Most of these files will go in your home directory. See [Installing](#Installing) for a brief description of where to put each file in this repository.
   8
   9 ### Prerequisites
  10
  11 You should know how linux works at least a little bit, but you can use this setup as your starting point, so Bash is a must.
  12 I use [Slackware](http://www.slackware.com/) since 2006, so you'll have to adapt everything if you're using another distro. As for the software used here you have it:
  13
  14 * [i3](https://i3wm.org/) - My window manager of choice.
  15 * [feh](https://feh.finalrewind.org/) - wallpaper setter. Fast and lightweight.
  16 * [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) - Extremely customizable dmenu replacement, I use the git version.
  17 * [picom](https://github.com/yshui/picom) - Lightweight compositor.
  18 * [polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/) - Lightweight but highly configurable bar.
  19
  20 ### Installing
  21
  22 The **bin** directory is where we'll store all executables, so you may want to add it to your path, otherwhise you could use something like `/usr/local/bin`, but make sure to fix every reference to your executables in the other files.
  23
  24 **i3**, **conky**, **rofi** and **polybar** directories must go inside your `~/.config` directory, this is standard and you shouldn't have any problems with it.
  25
  26 **Xresources**, **bash_profile**, **bashrc** and **xinitrc** are all hidden files and you should place them in your home prepending a dot to their names, so everything should look like this:
  27 ```
  28 $> ls /home/danix
  29 .Xresources
  30 .bash_profile
  31 .bashrc
  32 .xinitrc
  33 [...]
  34 ```
  35
  36 Here's how it looks for me on a fresh install:
  37
  38 ```
  39 $> tree /home/danix
  40 ├── .Xresources
  41 ├── .bash_profile
  42 ├── .bashrc
  43 ├── bin/
  44 │   ├── blackpearl-appsmenu.sh
  45 │   ├── blackpearl-powermenu.sh
  46 │   ├── blackpearl-runner.sh
  47 │   ├── blackpearl-scrotmenu.sh
  48 │   ├── blackpearl-sshmenu.sh
  49 │   ├── blackpearl-utilsmenu.sh
  50 │   ├── blackpearl-window.sh
  51 │   └── executors/
  52 │       ├── caps
  53 │       ├── inet
  54 │       ├── mail-check
  55 │       ├── psuinfo.py
  56 │       └── wifi-name
  57 ├── .config/
  58 │   ├── compton.conf
  59 │   ├── i3/
  60 │   |   └── config
  61 │   ├── conky/
  62 │   |   └── qlocktwo.conkyrc
  63 │   ├── rofi/
  64 │   |   └── blackpearl/
  65 │   |       ├── appmenu.rasi
  66 │   |       ├── i3exit.rasi
  67 │   |       ├── powermenu.rasi
  68 │   |       ├── runner.rasi
  69 │   |       ├── scrotmenu.rasi
  70 │   |       ├── shared/
  71 │   |       │   ├── reset.rasi
  72 │   |       │   └── settings.rasi
  73 │   |       └── utilsmenu.rasi
  74 │   └── tint2/
  75 │       ├── i3status.tint2rc
  76 │       └── minima.tint2rc
  77 └── .xinitrc
  78 ```
  79
  80 ## Authors
  81
  82 * **danix** - [danix.xyz](https://danix.xyz)
  83
  84 ## License and Acknowledgments
  85
  86 This project is free to use as it is, if you need help you can contact me on my site and I'll try and help you, but you maybe luckier asking your questions on the [unixporn thread on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/), which is where I found the inspiration and most of the links to make all this work.