Welcome to my dotfiles

This is a backup of my configuration files! Maybe (most probably not, but maybe) you’ll find something neat here.

Right now, and after a few years of using Tiling Window Managers I’m using KDE Plasma 5! Yeah, weird, I know. I keep my configuration for a lot of programs here though. I’m using Arch Linux btw.

This README is just the list of programs I’m using right now. Here’s some links to the configs, I think, are the most interesting (not all of them are org files yet).

• Emacs configuration
• Herbstluftwm configuration
• Polybar configuration
• Sway configuration
• Dwm configuration

Plasma Desktop Environment

Though it’s possible to just install the plasma group and the kde-applications metapackage, that will get a lot of undesired applications, so I narrowed the list of applications I want to install.

plasma-meta
dolphin
konsole
ark
dolphin-plugins
kcalc
kcolorchooser
kio-extras
spectacle
sddm-kcm
plasma-pass

• Plasma-meta: All the core packages for plasma. This includes some bloat, like the thunderbolt configuration, a firewall configuration and the discovery application, but I can live with it.
• Dolphin: The default file manager for KDE. Most of the time I use dired, but sometimes a good graphical manager is useful
• Konsole: The KDE terminal. I use Alacritty most of the time, but some KDE applications expect konsole
• Ark: An archive program. Again, if I need to compress something from dolphin
• Dolphin-plugins: Plugins for dolphin
• Kcalc: A simple graphical calculator, I use this sometimes
• Kcolorchooser: When I need to pick a color from the screen I normally use gcolor2, but let’s use the Qt alternative better.
• Kio-extras: Extra support for KIO
• Spectacle: The KDE screenshot application
• sddm-kcm: Adds sddm to the settings
• Plasma-pass: An applet for the pass password manager.

Extensions

I use a lot krunner extensions, Plasma themes and icon packs that are only available from the AUR:

plasma5-applets-window-buttons
krunner-pass-git
plasma5-runners-symbols
lightly-qt
flattery-icon-theme-git
fluent-icon-theme-git

Some extensions and plasmoid are downloaded using the Plasma “get more” button.

Other applications

I use a lot of other programs, most of them not part of KDE

Multimedia programs

mpv
sxiv
pqiv
gimp
krita
ffmpeg
playerctl
youtube-dl

Office, documents and archives

libreoffice-still
libreoffice-still-es
zathura
zathura-pdf-mupdf
poppler
unzip
p7zip
unzip
zip
unrar
nextcloud-client

Nerd stuff

htop
brightnessctl
pamixer
pass
pass-otp
passff-host
libnotify
wmctrl
xclip
rofi
alacritty
kdeconnect
zsh
zsh-theme-powerlevel10k
zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-completions
zsh-syntax-highlighting

Fonts

ttf-liberation
ttf-joypixels
ttf-opensans
ttf-fira-code
ttf-fira-sans
ttf-fira-mono
ttf-font-awesome

Standalone Window Managers

If I return to stand alone window managers, then I’ll need this applications:

dunst
sxhkd
nitrogen
clipmenu
redshift
lxappearance
picom
pavucontrol

Why do you tangle those *.pkgs files?

I’m glad you ask, those are simple text files with a list of programs I want in three categories:

• plasma.pkgs: plasma packages
• misc.pkgs: Miscelaneous packages that I’ll install not matter what desktop environment I’m using
• wm.pkgs: Packages I need only if I use an standalone window manager.

  To install one of those lists just need to run the command sudo pacman -S $(cat <list>) where <list> is the file I want (the plasma.pkgs list needs to be installed with yay instead).