Arch-Based Desktop Environment

• Hyprland: Wayland compositor and window manager. 🔗
• Kitty: Terminal emulator. 🔗
• Jiffy: Application launcher, window switcher, emoji picker, basic calculator, Hyprland's keybinds browser, and custom command menus (e.g., power menu, screenshot capture). 🔗
• Kitty Panel: Terminal-based system panel for real-time system monitoring. 🔗
• VSCode: IDE. 🔗
• NVIM: Text editor. 🔗
• Lazygit: Version control. 🔗
• Foxpanel: GUI system panel for system control and utilities (screen brightness control, system volume control, WiFi and Bluetooth connection management, etc.), plus various web-based widgets (screen recorder, wallpaper browser, music player, weather updates, calendar, etc.). 🔗
• WallRizz: System wallpaper and theme manager. 🔗

There are currently three different system themes and configuration here which can be change dynamically.

Default system configuration and theme

Matte color system theme and wallpapers

matte.mp4

Anime based system theme & config

anime.mp4

Tools

Setup rust

Run curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Starship

Installed using curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

Kitty

Installed using curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin. Then run these for desktop integration:

# Create symbolic links to add kitty and kitten to PATH (assuming ~/.local/bin is in
# your system-wide PATH)
ln -sf ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitten ~/.local/bin/
# Place the kitty.desktop file somewhere it can be found by the OS
cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
# If you want to open text files and images in kitty via your file manager also add the kitty-open.desktop file
cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty-open.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
# Update the paths to the kitty and its icon in the kitty desktop file(s)
sed -i "s|Icon=kitty|Icon=$(readlink -f ~)/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
sed -i "s|Exec=kitty|Exec=$(readlink -f ~)/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
# Make xdg-terminal-exec (and hence desktop environments that support it use kitty)
echo 'kitty.desktop' > ~/.config/xdg-terminals.list

Neovim

Build from source

zoxide

Run cargo install zoxide --locked

Setup golang

For Ubuntu: sudo snap install go --classic For Arch: ``

Fzf

Run the following to install the latest bin from github:

curl -sL `curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/junegunn/fzf/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name | contains("linux_amd64.tar.gz")) | .browser_download_url'` | tar -xz && sudo mv fzf /usr/local/bin/

js

Run the following commands:

curl -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/5hubham5ingh/js-util/releases/latest | grep -Po '"browser_download_url": "\K[^"]+' | grep js) -o js
chmod +x js
sudo mv js /usr/local/bin/

docker engine

Follow instructions in the official doc.

ripgrep

Run $ cargo install ripgrep