dotfiles/README.md

Linux Rice

TODO:

• WM
• Basics
  • Workspaces
  • Wallpaper
  • Compositor
  • Tiles
  • Layout hotkeys
• Input
  • Keyboard
    • Layout
    • Caps → ESC
  • Touchpad
    • Tapping
    • Speed
    • Gestures
• Bluetooh
  • Base
  • Audio
• Notifications
  • Standard
  • Battery
  • Disks
• Launcher
  • dmenu
  • Fancy alternative to dmenu
  • Application search
• Status bar
  • basics
  • Adjust icon inconsistencies
  • Applet handlers
• Terminal
  • Color scheme
  • Copy / Paste actions
  • Spacing
  • Font
  • Icons
  • Shell
  • Prompt
  • Scroll
• Power
  • Screen lock
  • Lock and suspend on lid close
  • TLP
  • Dim or off screen after X
  • Lock after Y

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WM - [bspwm]

Configured with the command line utility bspc or at ~/.config/bspwm, since it's a shell script MUST have x permissions.

Window information

• xprop: informs you about the selected window.

Input

Hotkeys - [sxhkd]

Configured at ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc. While using bspwm will also serve as the WM hotkey manager.

Touchpad

Both touchpad and mouse are managed directly with xinput. The touch motions, such as 3 finger swap or weird lateral movements, are manages with libinput-gestures.

Basic configuration done at:

• /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf
• [DEPRECATED] /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

Not yet used but there is an script with a simple example of live configuration at github/dqnid/scripts.

Sound - [PipeWire]

Pipewire works with my old pulseaudio config but offers easy bluetooth headset connections. The hotkeys call pulseaudio-ctl. But should be replaced to the new PipeWire system.

Screen / Display

To manage display changes I use x-on-resize and a simple custom script.

Dim on battery

To dim the screen on battery mode I use acpid and modify the file /etc/acpi/handler.sh.

NOTE: modify the case condition to match any AC o AD: AC|ACAD|ADP0|AC*|AD* (the 2 last ones alone cover everything but who cares).

Lid close

The display management when the lid is closed is on the scrip side, but detecting that lid close to run the script is managed with acpid.

• The script run is auto_xrandr.sh but is copied into /usr/bin to allow easy access. Tried a symlink strategy but was clumsy and did not end up working.
• To avoid the system suspend I modified /etc/systemd/logind.conf to ignore HandleLidSwitch and HandleLidSwitchExternalPower.
• To allow running x programs, such as xrandr, inside the script y must define DISPLAY environment variable: export DISPLAY=":0"

Screen lock

• xset to configure DPMS (display power management signaling). This will set the timeout for the lock.
• xss-lock to configure what actions will be ran once the timers set with xset end.
• [NOT USED] xautolock to configure the actual lock time. xautolock -time 5 -locker "script" -detectsleep will lock the screen after 5 minutes.
• betterlockscreen as the lock utility. betterlockscreen -l -u ~/.config/wp will lock the screen with the desired wallpaper, but it is better to launch it as betterlockscreen -l -w to use the cached image. Configured at ~/.config/betterlockscreen/betterlockscreenrc.

Notifications - [wired]

The notifications are listened and displayed by wired.

Bluetooth - [bluez]

I'll use the main driver and a minimal approach. blueberry will be the GUI to manage everything. To make the audio management easy (or at least working) im using pipewire. Did not configure anything tho.

• Create a simple rofi/eww widget to manage connections.

Terminal - [st]

Switched back to st with a custom build. Configured at source file in ~/Packages/st.

• [DEPRECATED] urxvt was configured at ~/.Xresources, must be applied manually running xrdb ~/.Xresources. This means the file could be located elsewhere but kept there as default.

Extensions

Written in PERL

Tricks

• Scratchpad utility written in bash at ~/.config/utils/scratch

Arch utlities

• pacman -Ssq name : list every element of a group of packages