You can set a background image using feh. You can just replace them with text if you want! The spotify script is obtained from this repo. I can’t display the characters denoted by on my blog because I’m not using a patched version for fonts that support glyphs. Below is a screenshot of my setup:Īs you can see, I have multiple terminal windows open, as well as Spotify, neatly tiled into bifurcated windows (as I’ll explain later, you can adjust the size of the windows beyond the fixed $rac' ]] || gsimplecal & What is i3? It’s a tiling window manager that allows you to place windows efficiently on your screen, allow simple navigation through keystrokes, separating windows into workspaces, and much more.

To install yay, simply run the following: For example, all the time Ubuntu users struggled to set up steam and Spotify on their machines, Arch users were chilling. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Throughout this blog, I’ll be using pacman to install bare necessities, and yay otherwise. Enable snaps on Arch Linux and install Carrier Command (DOS) Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. With that said, let’s dive in! Preliminary

I’m not going to explain how boot loaders work, how to set up Pacman (the package manager for Arch), setting up locale, etc.

This blog is meant to illustrate how I set up my Arch Linux environment after I’ve set up the appropriate UEFI, swap, and filesystem partitions. I figured since the next few C++ blogs I’ll be writing are going to be done with the linux toolchain, I’d start using my workstation again. I’ve set up my Arch Linux environment for over a year now and I haven’t made significant changes to it due to the fact that all of my work is through my company’s Macbooks (with SSH into remote compute resources, of course).

Arch install spotify