dotfiles/SETUP.md

Setup after pulling (Arch)

Everything needed to bring the Cursor Dark theme up on a machine that has just pulled these changes.

1. Packages

sudo pacman -S --needed papirus-icon-theme ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono

Package	Why
papirus-icon-theme	rofi, dunst and the GTK configs all reference Papirus-Dark
ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono	the tmux status bar uses powerline separators (U+E0B0–E0B3), and kitty.conf maps that range to Symbols Nerd Font Mono

Not in the repos: Berkeley Mono (kitty.conf) and Hack JBM Ligatured (waybar, rofi, hyprlock) are installed by hand.

2. Deploy

cd ~/.dotfiles
stow fish kitty tmux nvim hypr waybar rofi dunst gtktheme

The README suggests stow *, which now also picks up SETUP.md. Use stow */ or an explicit list.

3. Reload

# fish  - close every running fish session BEFORE pulling (see notes)
exec fish

# tmux  - plugins now bootstrap themselves, no prefix+I needed
tmux kill-server && tmux

# nvim  - installs vscode.nvim, drops everforest
nvim --headless "+Lazy! sync" +qa

# desktop
hyprctl reload
killall -SIGUSR2 waybar
killall dunst              # respawns via dbus

kitty: ctrl+shift+F5 to reload, or restart it. rofi has no daemon.

4. GTK theme

The configs are set to Orchis-Dark-Compact (Material Design, accent #1A73E8).

sudo pacman -S orchis-theme xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

libadwaita ignores gtk-theme-name, so GTK4 apps also need the portal settings and Orchis' own GTK4 stylesheet linked in:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme   'Papirus-Dark'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme    'Orchis-Dark-Compact'

mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-4.0
ln -sf /usr/share/themes/Orchis-Dark-Compact/gtk-4.0/gtk.css ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css
ln -sf /usr/share/themes/Orchis-Dark-Compact/gtk-4.0/assets  ~/.config/gtk-4.0/assets

nwg-look can do the symlink step for you — nwg/.config/nwg-look/config already has export-gtk4-symlinks: true. Set the gsettings values above first, then run nwg-look and hit Apply; it writes .gtkrc-2.0, both settings.ini files and the GTK4 symlinks from those values.

Window buttons

Both settings.ini files set gtk-decoration-layout=close,minimize,maximize: — everything left of the : sits on the left, which is macOS placement and order. That is client-side decoration, so it is all Hyprland apps use.

Orchis' --tweaks macos is not useful here: it only replaces xfwm4 and metacity-1 assets (Xfce / Marco window managers) and touches no GTK CSS, so it would change nothing under Hyprland — and it requires building from source, giving up the packaged theme. Circular red/yellow/green buttons are not available from Orchis for GTK client-side decorations.

Notes

• fish universal variables. The colours live in fish/.config/fish/fish_variables, which fish rewrites from memory whenever any universal variable changes. Close running fish sessions before pulling so an old session can't write the previous palette back over it.
• cat is broken on Arch. config.fish defines cat as batcat …, which is the Debian binary name. Arch's bat package installs /usr/bin/bat. Either sudo pacman -S bat and rename the call, or add an alias.
• nwg-look overwrites GTK config. It regenerates .gtkrc-2.0 and the settings.ini files. Run it before editing these by hand, or re-apply after.
• gtktheme/.gtkrc-2.0 line 4 includes /home/n0x/.gtkrc-2.0.mine, a stale path from a previous username. Harmless, but dead.
• ~/.tmux/plugins/nord-tmux is no longer used or tracked. Safe to delete.