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~/guides ls -t

Guides.

Each guide shows the whole config, names the version it was written against and says what breaks it, so you can tell when an update has moved on.

~/guides ls -t10 guides, newest first

  1. ~/guides/terminal

    Best terminal emulator for Linux: kitty, Ghostty and more

    kitty, Ghostty, foot, Alacritty and WezTerm compared on what a rice needs: Wayland, tabs and splits, images, ligatures, config and themes, with a pick by setup.

    by 8 min read#terminal-emulator #kitty #ghostty #foot #alacritty

  2. ~/guides/color-type

    Color scheme from wallpaper: pywal, wallust and matugen

    How pywal16, wallust and matugen turn a wallpaper into a color scheme, which fits your rice, how to wire it into your apps, and when a fixed palette is better.

    by 9 min read#color-schemes #wallpapers #pywal #wallust #matugen

  3. ~/guides/editors

    How to change the colorscheme in Neovim

    Try a scheme with :colorscheme, install it with vim.pack, lazy.nvim or LazyVim, make it stick in init.lua, and match Neovim to the palette of your terminal.

    by 7 min read#neovim #colorscheme #vim-pack #lazy-nvim #tmux

  4. ~/guides/color-type

    How to install Nerd Fonts on Linux (and fix the boxes)

    Pick the right Nerd Font variant, install it from packages or by hand, check it with fc-list, set its exact name in your apps and fix icons that show as boxes.

    by 8 min read#nerd-fonts #fonts #fontconfig #terminal #waybar

  5. ~/guides/color-type

    How to make your own terminal color scheme

    Build a terminal palette from scratch: a background and text, sixteen ANSI colors evened out in OKLCH and checked for contrast, then loaded and made light too.

    by 10 min read#color-schemes #terminal #ansi-colors #contrast #oklch

  6. ~/guides/dotfiles

    How to manage dotfiles with GNU Stow

    Keep configs in a git repo and let Stow link them into place: dry runs, tree folding, conflicts and --adopt, secrets kept out, and a rebuild on a new machine.

    by 10 min read#gnu-stow #dotfiles #git #symlinks

  7. ~/guides/desktopsfeatured

    How to rice Linux: a first-rice checklist

    The order to rice a Linux desktop without breaking it: a way back first, then each piece from window manager to lock screen, with its config file and a check.

    by 9 min read#ricing #tiling-window-managers #wayland #dotfiles #beginners

  8. ~/guides/desktops

    How to set up multiple monitors in sway

    Find the name sway gives each screen, place it in logical pixels, pin workspaces to it and let kanshi switch layouts when you dock a laptop.

    by 7 min read#sway #multi-monitor #wayland #kanshi

  9. ~/guides/desktops

    Hyprland vs sway vs niri vs i3: which tiling WM to pick

    How Hyprland, sway, niri and i3 tile, how each is configured and reloaded, and what their own docs say about effects and NVIDIA, with a pick for each setup.

    by 7 min read#hyprland #sway #niri #i3 #tiling-window-managers

  10. ~/guides/linux

    Wayland vs X11 for ricing: what changes and what to use

    Where GNOME, Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon stand now, which X11 tools a rice swaps on Wayland, from picom to xdotool, and the cases where X11 still fits.

    by 9 min read#wayland #x11 #xwayland #compositors