dotfiles

niri + DankMaterialShell setup on EndeavourOS.

What's included

• niri — scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (config.kdl only; see below)
• ghostty — terminal, with tmux-style splits on a Ctrl+s leader
• neovim — LazyVim with Catppuccin Mocha, Rust LSP
• zed — editor with Catppuccin Mocha
• yazi — terminal file manager
• mise — tool version manager (python, node, go, rust, pnpm, uv, etc.), configured via mise.toml at the repo root
• zsh — oh-my-zsh with syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, fzf, fzf-tab
• zoxide — smarter cd
• atuin — shell history search
• git — per-folder identity: work email by default, personal email for ~/dotfiles
• claude — Claude Code settings and status line script (model, dir, git, plan usage bars)

DankMaterialShell (dms) provides the bar, launcher, notifications, clipboard, lock screen and wallpaper-based theming. It generates ~/.config/niri/dms/*.kdl (including keybinds), ~/.config/ghostty/themes/dankcolors and the GTK colors itself, so those are not tracked here.

Fresh install

Assumes EndeavourOS with niri + DankMaterialShell already selected in the installer.

1. Clone

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles

The repo is expected at ~/dotfiles — .zshrc points MISE_GLOBAL_CONFIG_FILE there.

2. Install packages

sudo pacman -S --needed stow zsh neovim mise zoxide atuin fzf ripgrep fd btop ttf-firacode-nerd

3. Install oh-my-zsh and plugins

git clone https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/fzf-tab
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

4. Deploy dotfiles

niri/ghostty/zed already have default configs from the installer; move them aside first so stow can link over them:

mv ~/.config/niri/config.kdl{,.bak}
mv ~/.config/ghostty/config{,.bak}
mv ~/.config/zed/settings.json{,.bak}
stow config
stow zsh
stow git
stow claude

5. Install mise tools

export MISE_GLOBAL_CONFIG_FILE="$HOME/dotfiles/mise.toml"
mise install

This installs: python, node, go, rust, pnpm, uv, shellcheck, shfmt, btop, yazi.

6. Setup

# git identity — kept out of the repo; work email is the default, personal for ~/dotfiles
mkdir -p ~/.config/git-identity
printf '[user]\n\temail = you@work.com\n' > ~/.config/git-identity/default
printf '[user]\n\temail = you@personal.com\n' > ~/.config/git-identity/personal

# ssh-agent socket used by .zshrc
systemctl --user enable --now ssh-agent.socket

Log out and back in (for the shell change). First nvim launch will auto-install all plugins.

Key bindings

niri (from DMS defaults — Mod+Shift+/ shows the full list)

Key	Action
Mod+T	Terminal (Ghostty)
Mod+Space	App launcher
Mod+Tab / Mod+O	Overview
Mod+V	Clipboard history
Mod+N	Notification center
Mod+Comma	DMS settings
Mod+Y	Wallpapers
Mod+Alt+L	Lock screen
Super+X	Power menu
Mod+Shift+E	Quit niri

Ghostty (leader: Ctrl+s)

Key	Action
Ctrl+s then |	Split right
Ctrl+s then -	Split down
Ctrl+s then h/j/k/l	Navigate splits
Ctrl+s then z	Zoom split
Ctrl+s then x	Close split
Ctrl+s then c	New tab
Ctrl+s then n/p	Next/prev tab

Shell

Key	Action
Ctrl+R	Fuzzy search history (atuin)
Ctrl+T	Fuzzy find files
Alt+C	Fuzzy cd into directory
Tab	fzf-tab completion