.dotfiles

Minimalist, clean, and fast Hyprland setup. My goal was to create a focused workspace that stays out of the way while remaining functional and aesthetically pleasing.

✨ Features

• Dynamic Palettes: All system colors (terminal, bar, launcher) are automatically generated from your current wallpaper via pywal16.
• Highly Scripted: A lot of different QoL scripts, like screenshot, powersaver mode(works only on my laptop for now), selectors and much more.
• Efficient Workflow: Thoughtful keybindings and powerful tools like zsh, rofi to boost your productivity.
• As little bloat as possible: Only the essential tools needed for daily use.

🛠️ The Setup

This configuration is built for performance and simplicity on Arch Linux. Instead of heavy "eye-candy" widgets, it uses smart scripting to maintain a cohesive look.

• Theming: pywal16 (Dynamic color generation from wallpapers)

• Wallpaper: swww (Fast and efficient wallpaper daemon)

• Status Bar: Waybar (Lightweight and CSS-customizable)

• Launcher: Rofi-Wayland (Minimalist app launcher with image thumbnails)

• Terminal: Kitty (GPU-accelerated, configured for speed)

• File manager: Thunar (simple, reliable)

🚀 Installation

Installation script is currently under development, so until that, do everything manually

Step 1: Clone the Repository and install packages

First, clone this repository to your local machine and navigate into the directory.

git clone https://github.com/soldred/dotfiles && cd dotfiles

Then install packages provided in packages.txt file

Step 2: Copy configs

Go inside dotfiles/configs folder, copy everything from here to ~/.config/ folder. Also, do not forget to copy dotfiles/configs/zsh/.zshenv to your home directory.

Step 3: Final Setup

A few final steps are needed to complete the installation.

1. Set Zsh as default shell:

   chsh -s $(which zsh)

   You will need to log out and log back in for this change to take effect.

2. Reboot: Reboot your system to apply all changes and start your new Hyprland session.

   sudo reboot
   
   start-hyprland

3. To be able to set the wallpaper using a script(with rofi), be sure to save it in ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/

⌨️ Keybindings

This setup uses SUPER (Windows/Command key) as the main modifier.

Description	Keybinding	Alternative
Window & Workspace Management
Kill active window	SUPER + Q
Toggle floating mode	SUPER + T
Toggle fullscreen mode	SUPER + F
Move focus	SUPER + h,j,k,l
Resize window	SUPER + SHIFT + h,j,k,l
Switch between workspaces	SUPER + 1..9, 0
Move active window to workspace	SUPER + SHIFT + 1..9, 0
Toggle special workspace (scratchpad)	SUPER + S
Applications & Utilities
Open terminal (kitty)	SUPER + ENTER
Open file manager (thunar)	SUPER + E
Open browser (firefox)	SUPER + B
Open application launcher (rofi)	SUPER + SPACE
System & Theming
Take a screenshot (interactive)	SUPER + SHIFT + S
Open animation style selector	SUPER + A
Open wallpaper selector	SUPER + W
Reload waybar	SUPER + SHIFT + W
Clibpoard history	SUPER + V
Lock screen	SUPER + DELETE
Exit Hyprland session	SUPER + SHIFT + DELETE
Mouse Bindings
Move window	SUPER + Left Mouse Button	Mouse Button 5 (if available)
Resize window	SUPER + Right Mouse Button	Mouse Button 4 (if available)