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• Install all the Programs
  • Arch
    • For pacman:
    • Set up paru:
    • For paru(AUR):
  • Flatpaks
    • Set up flatpaks and Flathub
      • Arch
    • Important Flatpaks
• Configuring the dotfiles
  • KDE
    • Base Settings
    • Window Decorations
    • Colours
    • Keyboard Layout
  • Emacs
    • Base Doom Emacs
    • Custom Doom Emacs
  • Terminal
  • Everything else
• Install Programming Languages
  • Arch
  • Rust

Install all the Programs

Arch

After doing all of this, do a full system update with paru -Syu and reboot.

For pacman:

sudo pacman -S git base-devel stow  btop emacs-wayland eza fish hyprland hyprpaper kitty nvim qtile python-pywlroots starship swaync waybar wofi yazi archlinux-xdg-menu qt6ct qt5ct kvantum udiskie ttf-firacode-nerd lazygit zoxide misfortune cowsay lolcat --needed

Set up paru:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

For paru(AUR):

paru -S wlogout konsave ttf-alegreya

Flatpaks

Set up flatpaks and Flathub

https://flathub.org/en/setup

Arch

Restart after this:

sudo pacman -S flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Important Flatpaks

• Bazaar - Flatpak Store GUI (if none is preinstalled)

  • flatpak install flathub io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar
• Zen Browser - Default Browser
• Rewaita - GTK Theming
• OnlyOffice - Office Suite
• Arduino IDE v2 - Arduino Development
• Ear Tag - Music Tagging

• USB Flasher App

  • ISO Image Writer - KDE
  • Impression - GNOME
  • Popsicle - COSMIC
• ytDownloader - Download Videos or Music from YouTube
• Fragments - Torrent
• Gear Lever - Manage App Images

Configuring the dotfiles

KDE

Base Settings

Log out and back in after this

konsave -i ~/dotfiles/kde/test1.knsv
konsave -a test1

Window Decorations

• Download Klassy here: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Apaul4us&package=klassy
• Extract the file
• sudo cp -r Downloads/<klassy name>/usr/ /
• Apply Klassy in System Settings -> Global Theme -> Window Decorations
• Open the Klassy Settings App
• Replace Icons with Breeze
• Open the Button Colors Dialogue
• Replace "Accent Colour with traffic lights" with "Titlebar text colour"
• Close the Dialogue
• Go to the Window tab and increase corner radius to 5,00
• Open the Window Outline Style Dialogue and increase Window Outline Thickness to 5,00
• Go to the Window-Specific Overrides tab
• Add a rule
• For Regular Expression to match: enter .*
• Check Hide Window titlebar
• Apply

Colours

• Apply "Catppuccin Red Mocha" in System Settings -> Global Theme -> Colors

Keyboard Layout

• Go to System Settings -> Keyboards
• Enter the Key Bindings section on the top
• Check Configure keyboard options
• Choose "Make Caps Lock an additional Esc" and "Position of Compose Key -> Menu"

Emacs

make sure to remove ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/ if present

Base Doom Emacs

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs
~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

Custom Doom Emacs

rm -rf ~/.config/doom
cd ~/dotfiles
stow emacs

Terminal

cd ~/dotfiles/
stow kitty/
rm -rf ~/.config/fish/
stow fish/
chsh -s $(which fish)

Everything else

cd dotfiles
stow <name>

Install Programming Languages

Arch

paru -S cmake graphviz python python-isort python-pipenv python-pytest shellcheck js-beautify stylelint tidy python-flask python-flask-cors python-pydantic python-requests jdk-openjdk npm --needed

Rust

# Remove rust needed for building paru
paru -R rust

# Install rust from the official sources
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh