Dotfiles

Environment

• Hardware: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13
• OS: Arch Linux
• Window Manager: Sway (Wayland)
• Terminal: foot
• Shell: zsh
• Bar: waybar
• Editor: nvim config

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Sway

• Configuration: Separate files for appbinds, rules, startup, swaybinds, and visuals

• Core:

  • Window navigation: vim style | $mod+ h j k l | alt+tab
  • App Launcher: sway-launcher-desktop | $mod+d
  • Logout Menu: wlogout | $mod+Control+l
  • Volume/Brightness/Media: hardware keys + waybar signal refresh

• Utility:

  • Screenshot: grim + slurp | PrtSc
  • OCR Screenshot: tesseract to clipboard | $mod+Shift+o
  • Screen Record: wf-recorder toggle | $mod+Shift+r
  • Speech to Text: hyprvoice toggle | $mod+z
  • Clipboard History: cliphist | $mod+c
  • Color Picker: wl-color-picker | $mod+Shift+p
  • Transparency: toggle | $mod+a
  • Bluetooth/Wi-Fi: bluetuith/nmtui via fzf | $mod+b

• Misc:

  • No borders, no desktop, no animations
  • Custom wallpaper
  • Disabled mouse acceleration and caps lock
  • Mouse scroll factor 0.5

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Waybar

Based on cjbassi

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Zsh

antidote plugin manager, powerlevel10k prompt

• Configuration: Separate files for aliases, binds, core, custom, exports, history_config, p10k, and zsh_plugins
• Commands: saveshot (save screenshot), dupe (duplicate terminal)
• Core Plugins:
  • sudo: Esc twice to repeat command with sudo
  • vi-mode: enter normal mode with Esc
  • zsh-history-substring-search: cycle through history substring matches
  • copyfile copypath extract

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Foot

Gruvbox theme, JetBrainsMono Nerd Font size 13

Install foot-terminfo for extended terminal capabilities.

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Scripts

Custom scripts for power management, screen recording, lock screen, and build config.

See scripts/README.md

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lf

Terminal file manager — switches to selected directory on exit, file previews.

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wlogout

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System Configuration

Settings outside ~/.config worth documenting for reinstalls.

• makepkg (~/.makepkg.conf) — tracked in scripts/, symlinked. Parallel compilation, builds in /tmp/makepkg, zstd with -T0.
• TLP (/etc/tlp.conf) — battery thresholds 75-80%, PCIE_ASPM_ON_BAT=powersupersave, Bluetooth USB excluded from autosuspend.
• Filesystem (/etc/fstab) — btrfs subvolumes (@, @home, @swap), noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,discard=async,space_cache=v2.
• PAM (/etc/pam.d/swaylock) — includes login config, fingerprint auth via swaylock-fprintd + fprintd.

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Other Programs

• easyeffects — audio presets for PipeWire
• mako — notifications
• wl-mirror — screen sharing mirror
• lazygit — git TUI (config tracked, delta as pager)
• git-spice — git PR stacking
• zoxide — smart cd
• croc — file sharing
• obsidian — notes
• qalculate — calculator