After totally transfer Operating System of my home desktop from Windows back to Arch Linux, it has been about 3 months. Although I have tried to go back to Windows once for gaming experiences, the general experiences in other usage was uncomfortable, so just 2 days after I went back to Arch Linux.
This post is just for a simple memory.
The applications I am using for daily usage are as below:
DWM ¶
For window manager i use dwm. It’s just because of the Stack tilling logic comparing to i3 and ease of install and configuration comparing to Xmonad. Patching dwm is the thing I mostly don’t want to do for using it. However, thanks to the bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch Repo on Github, this also becomes easy.
Status bar ¶
I use the built-in status bar of dwm. Also thanks to the Repo dwm-flexipatch, the issue of confliction of alpha and systray was perfectly solved, and plus the autostart patch, it is a just status bar providing enough information and functions for normal use.
st ¶
The same as dwm, for terminal I also use the solution provided by Suckless.org. However, for st I would like to recommend patching it manually by yourself. What’s more, I choose nord color theme for st.
sum up list ¶
- file manager: ranger
- screenshot: flameshot
- game: Lutris, steam
- browser: librewolf
- text editor: neovim
- shell: zsh
- dynamic menu: dmenu
- notification: dunst
- password manager: pass
- cloud storage & sharing: Nextcloud
- email: neomutt + isync + msmtp + notmuch +abook (easy installationa and configuration with mutt-wizard by Luke Smith)
- RSS: newsboat
By the way, I don’t use a display manager to login into X. I configured the .zprofile to let it auto run startx after login on tty.
All of them are easy-to-config software, especially if you are a programmer. However, because many of them are terminal-based software, if you are also a non-programmer like me and have any questions, Arch Wiki and Youtube will help you solve almost all problems.
Enjoy the Linux!