Arch Linux working environment for developers

The best operating system for developers. Program in fast motion with this working environment 🚀.

Note: If you already have an Arch Linux installation with any other desktop environment than Hyprland, this installation will not conflict with your current Arch, i.e. you can have this working environment in parallel without compromising your current operating system.

Default shortcuts

• Super+Enter Open terminal (default = wezterm)
• Super+Space Open the laucher
• Super+q Kill focussed window
• Super+0-9 Switch to workspace
• Super+v Open the clipboard history
• Print Takes a screenshot of the selected area
• Shift+Print Takes a screenshot of the selected monitor
• Super+-/+ Volume down/up (it can also be done from the polybar slider)
• Super+←/↑/→/↓ Move the workspace to the left/right monitor
• Super+Ctrl+←/↑/→/↓ Resize focussed window (it can also be done with right click + drag)
• Super+Alt+←/↑/→/↓ Move focussed window (it can also be done with left click + drag)
• Super+Shift+←/↑/→/↓ Move the focus to another window
• Super+Shift+b Open the browser (default = brave)
• Super+Shift+e Open the file manager (default = ranger)
• Super+Shift+c Open the code editor (default = neovim)
• Super+f Toggle floating window
• Super+p Toggle pseudo window
• Super+s Toggle vertical/horizontal split (2 or more windows)

🗁 Install guide

Prerequisites:

• Arch Linux (actually you can install it on any Linux distro, but it is focussed and tested on Arch)
• An AUR helper (yay, paru...)

Install the necessary packages:

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm --needed hyprland hyprpaper zsh alsa-utils vlc waybar polkit-kde-agent xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland xdg-desktop-portal-gtk gnome-themes-extra fastfetch wl-clipboard wtype ranger wezterm discord dunst fontconfig zip unzip p7zip lsd bat

paru -S --noconfirm --needed brave-bin ulauncher clipse hyprshot spotify visual-studio-code-bin adwaita-qt5-git adwaita-qt6-git

chsh -s /bin/zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

Clone the arch4devs repository

git clone https://github.com/SoyAlejandroCalixto/arch4devs.git

And put all its contents in your /home/<user> folder (except the readme, the license and the .gitignore)

Then, restart your computer and in your display manager change the session to Hyprland and log in.

That is all. However, there are some additional adjustments you could make:

Configure multiple screens

Run hyprctl monitors all and check the name of your monitors, for example, if you have a monitor connected by HDMI, it is probably called HDMI-1.

Go to ~/.config/hypr/monitors.conf, delete the auto config and replace it with this format: name,resolution,position,scale

For example, if you have two monitors with the names HDMI-1 and DP-1, this would be a standard configuration:

monitor=HDMI-1,1920x1080@75,0x0,1
monitor=DP-1,1920x1080@60,1920x0,1

Change wallpaper

Go to ~/.config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf and replace the paths of preload and wallpaper:

preload = /your/wallpaper/path
wallpaper = , /your/wallpaper/path

Change key binds

Go to ~/.config/hypr/binds.conf and follows the structure of the other key binds in the file:

bind = SUPER SHIFT, K, exec, any-command