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Install zsh:
sudo pacman -S zsh
Change the shell for the current user:
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
Zoxide will make your life easier on the command line. Installation:
paru -S zoxide-bin
Add this to your zshrc:
eval "$(zoxide init zsh)"
Use it like this:
cd grandparent-folder/parent-folder/child-folder
cd different/path/to/another/folder
z child-folder
The last command will take you back directly inside the directory called child-folder. Zoxide automatically updates itself as you use it, so it will always know the path of the folders you visited. Makes it much faster to move around in the filesystem.
Neovim is a highly extensible refactor of Vim.
To automatically install vim-plug, add this to your init.vim file and restart the editor:
if ! filereadable(expand('~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim'))
echo "Downloading junegunn/vim-plug to manage plugins..."
silent !mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/autoload/
silent !curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim" > ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim
autocmd VimEnter * PlugInstall
endif
To make the usage of vim or nvim more comfortable, I recommend swapping the CapsLock and Esapce keys functionality, as CapsLock is kind of a useless key, but in an easily reachable position on the keyboard, while Escape is used fairly often if you use vim bindings. To make this happen, autostart the following command (eg. with .xinitrc):
setxkbmap -option 'caps:swapescape'
Vifm is a terminal file manager. It uses vim like keybindings. To apply color schemes, download and place it inside .config/vifm/colors/ . Then open .config/vifm/vifmrc and add this line (replace themename):
colorscheme themename
By default vifm won't show image previews. To make that work, you need to add the following configuration to vifmrc:
fileviewer *.pdf
\ vifmimg pdfpreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer *.epub
\ vifmimg epubpreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer *.avi,*.mp4,*.wmv,*.dat,*.3gp,*.ogv,*.mkv,*.mpg,*.mpeg,*.vob,
\*.fl[icv],*.m2v,*.mov,*.webm,*.ts,*.mts,*.m4v,*.r[am],*.qt,*.divx,
\ vifmimg videopreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer *.bmp,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.xpm
\ vifmimg draw %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer *.gif
\ vifmimg gifpreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer *.ico
\ vifmimg magickpreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer <audio/*>
\ vifmimg audiopreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
fileviewer <font/*>
\ vifmimg fontpreview %px %py %pw %ph %c
\ %pc
\ vifmimg clear
Then clone this repo: https://github.com/cirala/vifmimg and place the vifmimg and vifmrun scripts in a folder that is included in your $PATH variable. From now on, you have to launch vifm with the vifmrun script to have image-, pdf-, video thumbnail-, etc. previews.
I have a workspace deticated to Spotify in my DWM build. By default Spotify is not following the rules specified in DWM's config.h file, so the window won't be moved to the right workspace when you launch the program. Here's the fix for this problem:
Install a little program called spotifywm. This will help us to give Spotify a classname when it starts up, so DWM will be able to apply the rules to the Spotify window.
git clone https://github.com/dasJ/spotifywm.git
cd spotifywm
make
The make command will build a binary file called spotifywm.so.
Now create a file called spotify under this location: /usr/local/bin/ with the following content:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libcurl.so.4:/home/<USERNAME>/spotifywm/spotifywm.so /usr/bin/spotify
Replace <USERNAME> with your username, then save the file and make it executable. Now if you launch Spotify it should open on the workspace it's assigned to.
VSCodium is the community driven, free-licensed version of VSCode (no Microsoft telemetry/tracking).
If you want to use vim keybindings with this editor, you have to install an extention called VSCodeVim. To be able to use the CapsLock key as Escape, like with Neovim, add the following line to your settings.json:
{
... ,
"keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode",
...
}