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+# Various dotfiles for my [Void](https://voidlinux.org/) - [Qtile-Wayland](https://github.com/qtile/qtile) setup.
+A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.
+Please note that I use the latest Qtile from their GitHub repo which can be installed by following the installation instructions [below](#Installing-Qtile-Wayland).
+
+![ScreenShot](screenshot.jpg)
+
+## Details
+
+Below is a list of some of the packages that I use for my current setup which consists of two screens. A monitor as the main screen and the laptop screen as a slave and Kanshi is used to set the monitor as the left most. Please note that my config isn't perfect so your mileage may vary.<br />
+The wallpaper featured in the screenshots can be found here: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/554/914/large/artur-sadlos-to-sh300-ooh-as-05i.jpg
+<br />
+- **Operating System** --- [Void](https://voidlinux.org/)
+- **Boot Loader** --- [Grub](https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/index.html)
+- **Resource Monitor** --- [Btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)
+- **Window Manager** --- [Qtile](https://github.com/qtile/qtile)
+- **Status Bar** --- [Qtile's own](https://codeberg.org/qtile/qtile)
+- **Screen Detection** --- [wlr-randr](https://sr.ht/~emersion/wlr-randr/)
+- **Screen Hotplug** --- [Kanshi](https://sr.ht/~emersion/kanshi/)
+- **Screen Locker** --- [Swaylock](https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock)
+- **Screenshots** --- [Grim](https://sr.ht/~emersion/grim/)
+ --- [Slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp)
+- **Idle Management Daemon** --- [Swayidle](https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle)
+- **Shell** --- [Bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) using [Starship](https://starship.rs/)
+- **Completion** --- [Bash Completion](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion)
+- **Terminal** --- [Foot](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot)
+- **Notification Daemon** --- [Dunst](https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst)
+- **Application Launcher** --- [Fuzzel](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel)
+- **File Manager** --- [Ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger)
+- **Image Viewer** --- [Imv](https://git.sr.ht/~exec64/imv/)
+- **Document Scanner** -- [Simple-scan](https://github.com/GNOME/simple-scan)
+- **Editor** --- [Neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim)
+ - **Plugins**
+ - [packer](https://github.com/wbthmason/packer.nvim)
+ - [gruvbox](https://github.com/ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim)
+ - [nvim-tree.lua](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-tree.lua)
+ - [nvim-web-devicons](https://github.com/kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons)
+ - [mason.nvim](https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim)
+ - [mason-lspconfig.nvim](https://github.com/williamboman/mason-lspconfig.nvim)
+ - [nvim-lspconfig](https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig)
+ - [lualine.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim)
+ - [nvim-treesitter](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter)
+ - [nvim-colorizer.lua](https://github.com/norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua)
+ - [tagbar](https://github.com/preservim/tagbar)
+ - [alpha-vim](https://github.com/goolord/alpha-vim)
+ - [alpha-nvim-fortune](https://github.com/BlakeJC94/alpha-nvim-fortune)
+ - [nvim-cmp](https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp)
+ - [cmp-nvim-lsp](https://github.com/hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp)
+ - [luasnip](https://github.com/L3MON4D3/Luasnip)
+ - [cmp-nvim-lua](https://github.com/hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lua)
+ - [cmp-buffer](https://github.com/hrsh7th/cmp-buffer)
+ - [cmp-path](https://github.com/hrsh7th/cmp-path)
+ - [cmp-cmdline](https://github.com/hrsh7th/cmp-cmdline)
+ - [telescope.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)
+ - [plenary.nvim](https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim)
+ - [indent-blankline.nvim](https://github.com/lukas-reineke/indent-blankline.nvim)
+ - [undotree](https://github.com/jiaoshijie/undotree)
+ - [Comment.nvim](https://github.com/numToStr/Comment.nvim)
+ - [lsp_lines.nvim](https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/lsp_lines.nvim)
+ - [bufdelete.nvim](https://github.com/famiu/bufdelete.nvim)
+- **Web Browser** --- [Qutebrowser](https://www.qutebrowser.org)
+- **Multimedia Framework**
+ - **PipeWire**
+ - [pipeWire](https://pipewire.org/)
+ - [alsa-pipewire](https://pipewire.org/)
+ - [libjack-pipewire](https://pipewire.org/)
+ - [wireplumber](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/)
+ - [libpulseaudio](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/)
+- **PDF Viewer** --- [Zathura](https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura)
+- **IRC** --- [Weechat](https://weechat.org/)
+- **RSS Feed Reader** --- [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/)
+- **Youtube Downloader** --- [Yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork)](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
+- **Video player** --- [mpv](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv)
+- **Email Client**
+ - [aerc](https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc)
+ - [isync](https://isync.sourceforge.io/)
+ - [msmtp](https://marlam.de/msmtp/)
+ - [dante](https://www.inet.no/dante/)
+ - [w3m](https://w3m.sourceforge.net/)
+ - [msmtpqueue](https://github.com/marlam/msmtp-mirror/tree/master/scripts/msmtpqueue)
+
+
+## Installing Qtile Wayland
+
+#### 1. Ensure the wlroots is installed
+
+On Void: `sudo xbps-install -S wlroots0.16 wlroots0.16-devel`
+
+#### 2. Clone the Qtile repo
+
+`git clone https://github.com/qtile/qtile.git
+cd qtile`
+
+#### 3. Install Qtile dependencies
+
+`python -m pip install dbus-next pywlroots pywayland "cairocffi >= 1.6.0" "cffi >= 1.1.0" "xcffib >= 1.4.0" wheel --no-cache-dir --force`
+
+#### 4. Install qtile for the first time
+
+`python -m pip install .`
+
+#### 5. Find FFI Names
+
+The following command lists the names of the system binaries we need copy
+
+`ls /usr/lib64 | grep "libxkbcommon\|libinput\|libwlroots"`
+
+The following command lists the names of the pywlroots binaries we need to replace
+
+`ls ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywlroots.libs | grep "libinput\|li bxkbcommon\|libwlroots"
+`
+#### 6. Patch the pywlroots FFI
+
+Symlink the relevant system binary to the pywlroot binaries. In my case
+
+```
+ln /usr/lib64/libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0 ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywlroots.libs/libxkbcommon-de59cad2.so.0.0.0 -fs
+ln /usr/lib64/libinput.so.10.13.0 ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywlroots.libs/libinput-a3c39512.so.10.13.0 -fs
+ln /usr/lib64/libwlroots.so.11 ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywlroots.libs/libwlroots-62d802e9.so.11 -fs
+```
+
+#### 7. Build qtile FFI
+This next command is super important, we need to build the ffi for the virtual enviroments qtile
+
+```
+cd ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
+python libqtile/backend/wayland/cffi/build.py
+```
+
+#### 8. Install Qtile for the second and (hopefully) final time
+
+```
+cd 'The location of your qtile git repo'/qtile
+python -m pip install .
+```
+
+#### 9. Start Qtile
+
+Either:
+
+`qtile start -b wayland`
+
+Or:
+
+`dbus-run-session qtile start -b wayland`
+
+## Keybindings
+### Window manager controls
+| Keys | Action |
+| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------- |
+| <kbd>CTRL + MOD + r</kbd> | restart Qtile |
+| <kbd>CTRL + MOD + q</kbd> | shutdown Qtile |
+| <kbd>CTRL + MOD + w</kbd> | Open window switcher |
+| <kbd>MOD + w</kbd> | kill window |
+| <kbd>MOD + RETURN</kbd> | spawn terminal |
+| <kbd>CTRL + Space</kbd> | Rofi menu |
+| <kbd>CTRL + MOD + p</kbd> | Rofi power menu |
+
+## To set the wallpaper
+
+From within ranger if you highlight a valid image file and enter "wp" it will set that image as the default wallpaper.