The dots for my "rice"

Some general info:

• This customization really was inspired a lot by https://github.com/AlexvZyl/.dotfiles, so many config files are similar and also the overall look.
• Current wallpaper is wallpapers/greencar.jpg.
• The Nvim configuration works for NvChad.
• I include weather using OpenWeatherMap API. If you want to use it you will have to create an account and ask for an API key, then substitute the key inside the ~/scripts/weather.py file.
• GTK theme is this.
• cronie runs ~/scripts/backup.sh every day at 12:00 and 20:00, and ~/scripts/update_alert.sh every Friday at 19:00, so if you want add these lines to crontab -e: 0 12,20 * * * /home/CHANGEME/scripts/backup.sh >> /home/CHANGEME/scripts/backup_log.txt 2>&1 and 0 19 * * FRI /home/CHANGEME/scripts/update_alert.sh. Please remember to change the username to yours, and to leave an empty line at the end of the file. Also, check cronie service is up and running, and is enabled (so that it starts with the system).

Tip

Install yay AUR helper (how to install yay?, yay repo) so that for the packages are not installable by pacman. Install these packages for smoother customization, as you will (should) have all pieces: cowsay cronie s-tui radeontop xfce4-genmon-plugin picom kitty dunst rofi yazi btop eza zsh oh-my-zsh git github-cli nvim. Nerd Font is JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.

Note

I have an AMD graphics card, so i use radeontop for getting the GPU data. For Spotify data at the bottom of the display, all the scripts are in ~/scripts/spotify-panel folder. sp.sh if from here, while spotify-panel.sh is custom.

Important

You have to add a line inside your sudoers file to allow the syncing of the installed repos without password. To do this add %yourusername% ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay, /usr/bin/s-tui, replacing %yourusername% with your actual username.

sudo s-tui is used for monitoring the cpu wattage, while sudo yay for displaying the Pacman updates count.

I suggest to shut down and turn on the pc to make this work, I found that yay still asks for passwords if you only modify with sudo visudo and save it. Once rebooted everything you put in this line shoud work without asking for passwords when using with sudo.

i know this is not really a safe thing to do but it is allowing just the syncing, not really installing stuff or any other.

By doing this the panel genmon plugin can automatically show the number of updates, using yay -Syy and yay -Qu.

Caution

If you fail to do so, all the genmon plugins that use sudo commands and update rather quickly (3s or so) will try to use the command without having sufficient permissions. You have only a finite amount of tries before the use of sudo is blocked due to too many failed attempts, forcing you to restart the system to reset this. Please first update accordingly the sudoers file using sudo visudo and LATER apply the scripts to the genmon plugin.

Showcasing desktop

Desktop with nvim, btop++ and kitty terminal running cbonsai:

Installation

Warning

Clone the repo and substitute the folders. I recommend to create backups of what you modify, so that you don't lose your configurations if something goes wrong

Key Bindings

A few notes on the bindings:

• Keys combined with the Super key are reserved for OS and WM-related actions.
• Arrows and hjkl keys are interchangeable.

Bindings table

Binding	Action
Super + d	File manager (yazi)
Super + t	Terminal
Super + n	Neovim
Super + b	BTop++
Super + Shift + Arrow	Move window between workspaces
Super + Number	Go to workspace
Super + w	Web browser

Note

...yeah I really like the new MarkDown blockquote function, as you may have noticed ahah.