💻 Sharad's Arch Linux Dotfiles

My personal Arch Linux setup running Sway on an ASUS VivoBook 14. Built around an immersive, vibrant Tokyo Night theme, lightweight Wayland utilities, and a clean tiling workflow.

📸 Screenshots

SDDM Login Screen

Top Bar (Waybar)

Desktop & Workspaces

Core Utilities (Launcher & Terminal)

Application Launcher (rofi)	Terminal (foot)

Rofi Scripts & Workflows

Clipboard Manager	Power Menu

🎨 Theme & Appearance

• Window Manager: Sway (1920x1080 @ 1.5x scale on eDP-1)
• Palette: Tokyo Night (#1a1b26 dark background, #7aa2f7 blue & #bb9af7 purple accents)
• Status Bar: Waybar (Top bar with pill-style Tokyo Night modules)
• Login Greeter: SDDM (Custom Tokyo Minimal QML theme)
• Launcher: Rofi (Customized compact Tokyo Night launcher & scripts)
• Terminal: Foot (JetBrainsMono Nerd Font @ 11.5pt with Tokyo Night colors)
• Editor: Zed / Neovim
• UI & Bar Font: Netflix Sans Medium (9.5pt) (Bundled under .local/share/fonts/)
• GTK / Icons: Materia-dark + Adwaita

🛠️ Hardware & Essential Fixes

Laptop Specs

• Device: ASUS VivoBook 14 (X415EA_X415EA)
• CPU: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7
• GPU: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

🎤 ASUS Vivobook Mic Fix (ALC256)

The internal microphone on this Tiger Lake laptop doesn't work out of the box on Arch. It needs explicit driver routing via /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel model=alc256-asus-aio
options snd-intel-dspcfg dsp_driver=1

⌨️ Custom Keybindings & Workflow

Keybinding	Action
Mod + Return	Open foot terminal
Mod + d	Open Rofi launcher
Mod + t	Open Thunar file manager
Mod + v	Open Rofi Clipboard history (cliphist)
Mod + Shift + e	Open Rofi Power Menu
Print	Capture full screen to ~/Pictures/Screenshots/
Shift + Print	Select region with slurp to ~/Pictures/Screenshots/
Mod + Shift + s	Select region with slurp directly to Clipboard
Mod + Print	Capture full screen directly to Clipboard

📂 What's In Here?

dotfiles/
├── .config/
│   ├── easyeffects/     # Audio processing & EQ
│   ├── foot/            # Foot terminal configuration (Tokyo Night)
│   ├── gtk-3.0/         # GTK3 dark theme settings
│   ├── gtk-4.0/         # GTK4 dark theme settings
│   ├── mako/            # Notification daemon
│   ├── rofi/            # Compact Tokyo Night launcher & custom scripts
│   │   └── scripts/     # todo, clip, powermenu scripts
│   ├── sway/            # Sway config, keybinds, Tokyo Night borders, wallpapers
│   ├── swayimg/         # Image viewer configuration (Tokyo Night theme)
│   ├── swaylock/        # Screen locker
│   ├── waybar/          # Waybar config and Tokyo Night CSS tokens
│   └── zed/             # Zed editor config
├── .local/
│   └── share/
│       └── fonts/       # Custom Netflix Sans font family
├── etc/
│   └── modprobe.d/      # Audio fix for ASUS Tiger Lake mic
├── sddm/
│   └── tokyo-minimal/   # Custom Tokyo Minimal SDDM login greeter theme
├── screenshots/         # Desktop & login previews
├── pkglist.txt          # Native pacman package dump
└── aur_pkglist.txt      # AUR package dump

🚀 How to Restore on a Fresh Install

1. Grab Packages

# Sync native packages
sudo pacman -Syu --needed - < pkglist.txt

# Sync AUR packages (if using yay)
yay -S --needed - < aur_pkglist.txt

2. Copy Configs, Fonts, and SDDM Theme

cd ~/dotfiles

# Copy user configs
cp -ur .config/{easyeffects,foot,gtk-3.0,gtk-4.0,mako,rofi,sway,swayimg,swaylock,waybar,zed} ~/.config/

# Copy custom fonts and update cache
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cp -ur .local/share/fonts/* ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -fv

# Install SDDM Theme system-wide
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/sddm/themes/tokyo-minimal
sudo cp -r sddm/tokyo-minimal/* /usr/share/sddm/themes/tokyo-minimal/

# Ensure scripts are executable
chmod +x ~/.config/rofi/scripts/* ~/.config/waybar/scripts/* 2>/dev/null

(Note: Don't forget to set Current=tokyo-minimal in your /etc/sddm.conf to activate the login theme!)

3. Apply Mic Fix

sudo cp -r etc/modprobe.d/* /etc/modprobe.d/

🔄 Quick Update Commands

When making changes locally, sync back to this repo and push:

cd ~/dotfiles

# Sync updated configs and fonts
cp -ur ~/.config/{easyeffects,foot,gtk-3.0,gtk-4.0,mako,rofi,sway,swayimg,swaylock,waybar,zed} .config/
cp -ur ~/.local/share/fonts/NetflixSans .local/share/fonts/ 2>/dev/null || true
cp -ur /usr/share/sddm/themes/tokyo-minimal/* sddm/tokyo-minimal/

# Refresh package snapshots
pacman -Qqen > pkglist.txt
pacman -Qqem > aur_pkglist.txt

# Commit
git add .
git commit -m "style(dotfiles): add SDDM Tokyo Minimal theme and update snapshots"
git push