- some .config was copied manually: either write a build script to ln -s this or manage with home-manager.
A customized tiling window manger configuration for X11 linux, using Penrose. Also utilizing dmenu app launcher, alacritty, and nitrogen background manager.
You'll likely want to disable login managers for simplicity. On NixOS,
this config should suffice for configuration.nix:
# Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
services.libinput.enable = true;
services.xserver = {
enable = true;
displayManager.startx.enable = true;
xkb.layout = "us";
xkb.variant = "";
};nix develop
cargo build --release
Then follow the configuration section below.
To run, startx from a shell where you have run nix develop.
The nix-build work is a work-in-progress; currently it still
needs to have the local repo for things like .xinitrc, scripts,
and wallpapers. It can be tested by running nix profile install
and setting WHICH_PENROSE to ON_PATH.
You'll need to install dmenu-rs separately; currently this involves building from source and copying the executables to the PATH.
At this time, you'll want to be sure you have unifont installed, as a fallback to rendering certain
glyphs from other font packages. This may be fixed in more recent versions of libXft2; see
this issue.
Install dependencies (arch):
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S cmake pkg-config fontconfig python3 cairo pango xorg-xinit xorg-server nitrogen firefox dmenu acpilight fzf rust-analyzer picom htop barrier neofetch openssh tree clang nvtopNow install rust based software, (assuming those software specific dependencies are satisfied)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
rustup install nightly
cargo install alacritty lsd ripgrep nu starship rusty-rain gitui skim tokei bottom zellij bat rua ttyper taplo-cli lfs consoletimer onefetch oxker
cargo install cargo-udeps cargo-multi cargo-outdated cargo-semver-checks cargo-expandPlace config files to appropriate location
cp -r .config ~Prepare wallpapers:
cp -r wallpapers ~/Build and compile in this repos directory
cargo build --releaseNow copy the compiled file to where it can be executed globally
sudo cp ./target/release/penrose-personal /usr/bin/Now link the (possibly modified) '.xinitrc' to '~/.xinitrc'
cd $HOME
ln -s /path/to/dotpenrose/.xinitrcNow the desktop environment is ready for usage with the 'startx' command from a raw command line
Here are the most important keybindings to control the window manager
'Meta' + ['h', 'j', 'k', 'l'] to navigate between windows
'Meta' + [ 1 .. 9 ] to switch between workspaces
'Meta' + 'Enter' to spawn alacritty terminal
'Meta' + 'q' to quit window
'Meta' + ',' to spawn dmenu prompt for application runner
'Meta' + 'Shift' + ['Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right'] to change tiling layout
For a complete binding list, check out 'src/main.rs'
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Don't run
cargo clean, ideally (you shouldn't need to anyway, most likely). -
Related to that, to be extra safe, if you are working on an experimental branch, you could check that out to a different directory, e.g.:
$ git worktree add $HOME/workspace/dotpenrose_dev penrose_issue_302You could even start this on a different X server if you wanted to experiment at runtime.
Or, you can swap out the current binary with the new dev binary by running
./use_dev_penrose.sh(still need topkill dotpenroseafter).