🍙 My Ricing Dotfiles for Windows 11

Yes it's Windows

Introduction

❤️ For the Ricing and Unixporn Enthusiasts

Are you a ricing nerd or a unixporn enthusiast who has to use Windows but still misses the customizability of Linux? Look no further! This repository is a treasure trove of my ricing dotfiles tailored specifically for Windows.

⚙️ Custom Themes and Configurations

It includes a variety of custom themes, scripts, and configurations designed to bring the same level of aesthetic appeal and functionality to your Windows desktop that you love from your Linux setups.

⚡ Instant Theme Switching

Easily switch themes on the fly with just one press. Keep your desktop fresh and aligned with your mood or preferences instantly and effortlessly.

😍 Transform Your Windows Experience

Dive in, tweak to your heart's content, and transform your Windows environment into a beautifully riced masterpiece!

Core

• Terminal: Alacritty
• Shell: Zsh inside MSYS2
• Tiling Window Manager: Komorebi
• Bar: Zebar
• Package manager: Winget
• Dotfiles manager: Chezmoi

🎨 Themes

✨ meimei
Warming and caring

✨ tlinh
Sweet and mysterious

✨ mtram
Calming and peaceful

🕹️ arcade
⚠️ WARNING! Only For Truest Gamer!! May hurt your eyes!!!

✨ khanhoa
Joyful and adventurous

✨ khlinh
Gentle and wise, truly exceptional

💜 shuri
Radiant love for purple, deeply cherished soul, mah lovely queen 👑

⚙️ Current Configurable Settings

You can customize each theme inside ~/.rice-manager/rices and re-apply it (see Change theme below)

• ☑️ Alacirtty theme
• ☑️ Komorebi theme
• ☑️ Zebar theme
• ☑️ Desktop wallpaper based on rice
• ☑️ Vscode theme
• ☑️ Windows light/dark mode based on rice
• ❓ Windows color based on rice
• ❓ Discord theme
• 🚧 Btop theme
• 🚧 under construction

📑 Basic usage

Change theme

• From alacritty terminal use command: rice <theme-name> (example: rice meimei)
• Background is selected randomize from rice's wallpaper folder

Useful keybindings

Keys	Action
alt + enter	Open terminal
alt + Space	Open powertoy run
alt + h|j|k|l	Focus window left | bottom | top | right
alt + shift + h|j|k|l	Move focusing window left | bottom | top | right
alt + q	Close focusing window
alt + 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0	Focus workspace {n}
alt + shift + 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0	Move focusing window to workspace {n}
alt + f	Toggle float
alt + m	Toggle monocide
alt + x	Flip layout horizontal
alt + y	Flip layout vertical
alt + shift + t	Retile
alt + shift + r	Reload whkd
ctrl + alt + shift + r	Reload komorebi and zebar

ℹ️ More keybinding can be found inside ~/.config/whkdrc

📦 Step by Step Installation

Pre-install notices

• Those installation steps are not fully verified and you might stuck at any step, if you're having problem, feel free to message me on my discord.
• This dotfiles and it's previews are in 2560x1600 resolution, everything might look bigger on lower resolution.
• Those installation steps won't break your windows, in case things didn't go well, all you need to do are:
  • winget uninstall ... all packages you have installed through install-packages.ps1
  • Remove added task scheduler tasks
  • Remove added config files in ~/.config
• If you have just fresh install windows 11, you need to go to Microsoft Store and update your "App Installer". Otherwise winget will not working.
• For those who use another windows 11 version (like IOT Enterprise, which doesn't come with Microsoft Store):
  • First download the latest version of winget: https://aka.ms/getwinget
  • Then open Powershell and run: Add-AppxPackage -Path <path to downloaded .msixbundle> to install winget

Install Fonts

Font need to be download and install manually (Windows is planning to allows installing fonts from winget. Stay tune!):

• Pixelcraft Nerd Font (please download and use Nerd Font version)
• CaskaydiaMono Nerd Font Mono
• Monaspace
• Scientifica
• DM Mono

Install chezmoi and apply dotfiles

• Install chezmoi from Winget with: winget install chezmoi
• Initialize chezmoi and apply the dotfiles with: chezmoi init --apply aquapaka (Might need close and reopen powershell, or restart the pc for chezmoi command to be recognizable)

Install packages

• After chezmoi apply the dotfiles, the chezmoi source folder could be found in %userprofile%/.local/share/chezmoi, install-packages.ps1 file can be found inside scripts folder
• Edit install-packages.ps1, comment out packages/apps that are not needed
• Run install-packages.ps1 script with Powershell to install nessesary packages (⚠️ Note: sometime installation could fail, keep re-run the script until all packages has been installed)

Add New Environment Variables

• Add %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin to Path variable (This is needed for some utilities like btop, colorscript and winfetch to be recognize):
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Restart

• After everything above are done, restart the PC one time to make sure all new program paths are registered.

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🚩 Continue below after MSYS2 has been installed through install-packages.ps1 and you have restarted the pc

Change MSYS2 home directory

Edit /c/msys64/etc/nsswitch.conf

db_home: windows

This will set windows user folder as default home directory

Install Zsh

Open MSYS2 UCRT64 and run below command to install zsh

# Update pacman
pacman -Syu

# Open MSYS2 Ucrt64 and install ZSH
pacman -S zsh

Open **MSYS2 UCRT64** and run below command to install zsh

Open Powershell, from your user folder (Example: C:\Users\wasabi>), run below command to install zsh themes and configs

# Install Theme: Powerlevel10k

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ./.config/zsh/themes/powerlevel10k

# Install Fast Syntax Highlighting Plugin

git clone git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting ./.config/zsh/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting

# Install Autosuggestions Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ./.config/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

# Install History Substring Search Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ./.config/zsh/plugins/zsh-history-substring-searchpacman -S zsh

Troubleshoot: If git is not recognizable, try close and reopen powershell or check whether git is installed through running ``````install-packages.ps1``` or not.

Install VS Code Theme

• Icons:

  • Gruvbox Material Icons

• Themes:

  • Gruvbox
  • Monokai Pro
  • Matchalk
  • Neon City
  • Paper
  • Base 16 Tomorrow
  • Shades of Purple

• ADDITIONAL: To change vscode UI Font, use this extension: Fonted

Auto start Komorebi at windows start

• Open Task scheduler

• Choose Create Basic Task...

• Enter any name for Komorebi task (example: "Komorebi") then press Next

• Trigger: choose When I log on then press Next

• Action: Start a program then press Next

  • Program/script: paste in C:\Program Files\komorebi\bin\komorebic.exe
  • Add arguments: start --whkd
  • Press Next

  

• Tick Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click Finish then click Finish

• Inside Properties window, set the following settings for each tab:

  • General: enable Run with highest privileges (required for Komorebi could manages all windows)
  • Conditions: disable/untick everything (including greyed out settings)
  • Settings: disable/untick Stop the task if it runs longer than
  • Click OK to save and we're good to go

Auto start Zebar at windows start

• Copy start-zebar.bat from scripts folder
• Press Window + R to open Run prompt and type in shell:startup and press OK, a startup folder will be opened
• Paste start-zebar.bat in this startup folder

Optional Tweaks

• Disable windows 11 rounded corners:
  • Install windows 11 rounded corners setup: win11-toggle-rounded-corners
• Enable automatically hide the taskbar
• Improve performance and reduce disk utilization for system with high amount of free RAM:
  • Run scripts/high-ram-tuning.ps1 with Powershell
• Restore old context menu (Require restart):
  • Open/Run scripts/Restore-old-context-menu.reg
• Fix terminal cursor glitching while typing:
  • Run scripts/terminal-cursor-fix.sh
  • Close then re-open terminal
• Show 'Max cpu freq' in power plan setting, allow changing maximum cpu freqency to attempt lower temperature:
  • Run scripts/show-cpu-frequency-power-plan-setting.ps1 with Powershell

Other information

• Dotfiles inspired by gh0stzk dotfiles: https://github.com/gh0stzk/dotfiles
• Food script by Xero: https://github.com/xero/dotfiles