gh0stzk/dotfiles
Dotfiles
This project is a collection of configuration files for managing a personalized Linux desktop environment. It provides a comprehensive bundle for a tiling window manager, a Zsh shell environment, and a Neovim editor setup to synchronize software settings across different machines.
The configuration focuses on unified system theming, utilizing a cross-application theme suite to sync color palettes and visual styles across the terminal, browser, and system utilities. It includes a visual settings editor for immediate theme switching and wallpaper management without requiring session restarts.
The environment incorporates a developer toolchain with language server integration and a lazy-loading plugin system for the text editor. System navigation is handled through keyboard-driven window tiling, workspace navigation control, and the use of temporary scratchpad windows.
Additional utilities cover system control through hotkey application launching, screen capture tools, and a menu-driven interface for managing network and power applets.
Features
- Tiling Window Managers - Provides configuration files for a BSPWM-based tiling window manager with keyboard-driven window management and workspace navigation.
- Desktop Environment Theming - Switches between 18 pre-configured desktop themes instantly, changing colors across the entire environment.
- Cross-Application Theme Synchronization - Synchronizes a central color palette across all desktop applications for visual consistency.
- Virtual Desktop Organizers - Provides keybindings to switch between virtual desktops or workspaces.
- Keyboard-Driven Workflows - Controls window management, application launching, screenshots, and system actions entirely through keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys.
- IDE Configurations - Ships a pre-configured Neovim environment with LSP, completions, and file navigation for development.
- Preconfigured IDE Setups - Provides a preconfigured Neovim setup with LSP, Treesitter, completions, and file navigation for immediate code editing.
- Optimized Shell Configurations - Provides an optimized Zsh shell environment with autocompletion, syntax highlighting, history search, and fzf-tab completions.
- Text Editor Configurations - Provides a pre-configured Neovim setup with LSP, completions, and file navigation.
- Focus Navigation Controllers - Provides keyboard-driven focus navigation between adjacent windows in a tiling layout.
- Tiling Window Managers - Toggles between tiled and monocle layout modes for managing window arrangement.
- Hotkey Daemons - Runs a background daemon that maps keyboard shortcuts to shell commands for system control.
- Tree-Based Window Layouts - Arranges windows in a binary space partitioning tree for keyboard-driven tiling management.
- Application Menu Systems - Displays a graphical application menu via Rofi for launching installed applications.
- Keyboard-Driven Menu Systems - Provides a keyboard-driven graphical menu for launching applications and system controls.
- Desktop Color Palette Theming - Propagates a handcrafted color palette across all supported applications and system components for consistent visual appearance.
- Theme Application & Switching - Switches between 18 handcrafted themes with a single click, applying changes immediately without restarting the session.
- Desktop Visual Theming - Switches between handcrafted themes instantly and adjusts visual settings through a dedicated editor without manual file editing.
- Keyboard Navigation Shortcuts - Controls window management, theme switching, application launching, screenshots, and system actions through keyboard shortcuts.
- Desktop Panel Systems - Provides a keybinding to show or hide the desktop panel or bar.
- Multi-Monitor Workspace Managers - Automatically detects and configures up to 4 displays on launch or reload, adapting workspace layout to multi-monitor setups.
- Scratchpads - Provides a scratchpad overlay for quick access to applications or notes without disrupting the workflow.
- Window State Toggles - Provides keybindings to toggle windows between tiled, floating, fullscreen, and pseudo-tiled states.
- Desktop Screenshot Capture - Provides keybindings to capture the screen, area, or active window with optional delay.
- Multi-Monitor Workspace Assignments - Automatically detects monitors and assigns workspaces to each display on startup.
- Floating Terminal Toggles - Provides a keybinding to toggle a floating terminal that appears above other windows.
- Orchestration Scripts - Uses shell scripts to load and apply configuration files across applications on startup or theme switch.
- Window Sticky Features - Makes a window visible on all workspaces.
- Rofi-Based Applets - Ships a suite of Rofi-based applets for wallpaper selection, network control, clipboard, and system management.
- Lazy Loading - Defers Neovim plugin initialization until first use to improve editor startup performance.
- Browser Theme Integration - Applies a consistent OneDark color scheme to Firefox, matching the desktop environment's appearance.
- Theme-Adaptive Widgets - Ships Eww-based widgets for music player, profile card, and cheatsheet that adapt to the active theme.
- Floating Desktop Widgets - Renders functional widgets as floating windows that adapt to the active theme colors.
- Desktop Wallpaper Managers - Selects a new desktop wallpaper from a collection using a Rofi-based applet.
- Theme Customization - Provides a dedicated application to adjust visual and configuration aspects of the current theme without manual file editing.
- Per-Theme Wallpaper Configurations - Configures wallpapers per theme using random, custom directory, static image, animated video, or slideshow methods.
- Bspwm Configurations - Comprehensive and highly customized tiling setup.
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