# Hyprland

## Hyprland

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```bash
# TODO
# i did the following in chroot

sudo pacman -S sddm weston xdg-user-dirs plymouth hyprland kitty firefox dunst pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse pavucontrol xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland xdg-desktop-portal-gtk polkit-gnome qt5-wayland qt6-wayland hyprpaper hyprlock nwg-look qt5ct qt6ct waybar wofi rofi-wayland nautilus noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-extra noto-fonts-cjk cliphist wl-clipboard grim slurp flatpak

# AUR
wl-clip-persist wlogout auto-cpufreq batsignal poweralertd-git

# commands to run
# within the $HOME directory
xdg-user-dirs-update
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service

# install paru and install above aur packages here

# import dotfiles here

# if on nvidia fix the hyprland.conf env vars

reboot # next install, yolo it all in chroot ig

# atuin login and sync
# install tmux plugins, C-a I
# nwg-look, qt5ct, qt6ct stuff
# copy only after nwg-look
sudo cp -r .icons/. /usr/share/icons
sudo auto-cpufreq —install

# plymouth install
nvim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# must be before systemd and crypt
HOOKS=(... plymouth ...)
# change theme
plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt #does it need sudo?
cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf

sudo mkinitcpio -P
# later on look into that smooth transition thing arch wiki talks about. Apparently GDM has it by default.

# install sddm theme
# i use this https://www.pling.com/p/2011322/
# import theme
sudo cp -r where_is_my_sddm_theme/ /usr/share/sddm/themes
sudoedit /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf
```

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## Paru

```bash
# base-devel is installed already using my installation steps
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel

cd ~/Downloads
# I use paru.git on main PCs, but paru-bin installs much faster so I use it on VMs
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
cd paru
makepkg -si
```

## Dotfiles

```bash
# Dotfiles (ideally install after Hyprland/DE is installed)
cd ~/
paru -S stow
git clone https://github.com/specarino/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
cat PACKAGES.md
# install all packages from there
rm ~/.zshrc
stow .
# remove any conflicting packages

# refreshes font cache, idk if needed
fc-cache -f -v

# fix bat theme
bat cache --build

# prep the dotfiles repo properly
gh auth login

cd dotfiles
./scripts/init.sh

# ensure all the changes are pushed
git config --global user.email "<email>"
git config --global user.name "<name>"
git add .
git commit -m "updated"
git push

./scripts/update.sh
# if there are updates
git push
```

## To-Do

* Figure out how to login and sync `atuin`.
* Make `nwg-look`, `qt5ct` and `qt6ct` configs.
* Application icon packs and themes for GTK & Qt, store them in dotfiles repo and source them from the above config.
* Maybe use Catppuccin [GTK](https://github.com/catppuccin/gtk) and [Qt](https://github.com/catppuccin/qt5ct) themes for applications.
* Maybe automatically detect NVIDIA and turn the environment values for it in `hyprland.conf` on?
* Hyprlock is laggy on NVIDIA, tested on 1060.
* Switch to `rofi` as `wofi` is unmaintained.

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```bash
# Interesting stuff to look at

# maybe poweralertd, unsure yet
# https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/#share-picker-doesnt-use-the-system-theme
# https://wiki.hyprland.org/Useful-Utilities/Other/#wireless-settings
# https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Environment-variables/#theming-related-variables
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hyprland
```

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