My Arch Linux + Hyprland desktop, in a Nothing OS style, themed live from the wallpaper.
Aurora is my own desktop on Arch Linux + Hyprland (Lua config): a desktop shell written in Quickshell (bar, control panel, notifications, OSD, dock, runner, settings, ...) plus the configs around it, themed live from the wallpaper with matugen and deployed with GNU stow.
One shell instead of waybar, dunst, wlogout, fuzzel and a pile of scripts, in a Nothing OS style (Doto dot-matrix type, pills, LED dots) with Material You colours: everything below is themed from the current wallpaper, which aurora draws itself as mono dots, colour dots or the plain photo.
 Control panel · media, volume/mic/brightness, quick toggles, capture, session |
 System · cpu, memory, disks, battery, power profile, GPU mode (envycontrol) |
 Runner (Super+R) · apps, scripts, calc, shell; also a dmenu for scripts |
 Wallpaper picker · live full-screen preview, folders, search, vim keys, three looks; re-themes everything through matugen |
 Glyph picker (Super+`) · emoji, nerd icons, symbols, kaomoji, fancy text |
 Power menu (Super+Esc) · lock, logout, suspend, reboot, ... |
 Calendar · from the clock in the bar |
 Settings (Super+I) · network, sound, appearance, Hyprland, keybinds, display, power |
 Overview · live previews of every workspace and window, click to jump |
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Warning
This is my personal setup, not a general purpose desktop or dotfiles framework.
It's built around my hardware (Lenovo Legion, Intel + NVIDIA hybrid graphics, linux-zen), my monitors,
my keyboard and my habits. I'm not trying to make it work for everyone, and I won't be adding options
or support for other setups. It's public as a reference, or for people who want exactly the same
setup as me.
Only run install.sh on a freshly installed, unconfigured Arch Linux system. It installs a lot of
packages (NVIDIA drivers included if you pick them), replaces your configs with symlinks, changes your login
shell and can enable system services. Don't run it on a system you already use.
git clone https://git.krolyxon.com/aurora ~/aurora
cd ~/aurora
./install.sh # interactive: pick packages per group
./install.sh --yes # pre-select the default packages, no pickers
./install.sh --check # only compare installed packages with the lists, changes nothingClone it anywhere (e.g. ~/dev/aurora): the repo's .stowrc points stow at $HOME. Re-stow by hand with stow .
from the repo; to move an existing checkout, stow -D . first, move it, then stow . again.
The lists live in packages/*.txt: one package per line, # for comments, and a trailing ! means
"listed, but not pre-selected".
| file | |
|---|---|
desktop.txt |
always installed: Hyprland, Quickshell, PipeWire, the tools the shell and keybinds call |
utils.txt |
CLI tools, fonts, media, small utilities |
dev.txt |
development tools |
gpu.txt |
Intel + NVIDIA (nvidia-open-dkms) drivers. Change this for your hardware |
optional.txt |
desktop apps |
aur.txt |
AUR packages (installed with paru) |
base.txt |
reference only, never installed: what the base install already provides |
| WM | Hyprland (Lua config), hypridle, hyprlock; aurora draws the wallpaper (mono dots, colour dots or photo) |
| Shell / bar | aurora (Quickshell) |
| Theming | matugen: picking a wallpaper in aurora (or setwall) re-themes everything (GTK via adw-gtk3, Qt via qt6ct); accent = the wallpaper's own colour, near-black surfaces. The terminal (foot) too, with ANSI colours tinted toward the wallpaper |
| Terminal / shell | foot, zsh |
| Editor | Neovim (LazyVim) |
| Launcher / menus | aurora's runner (aurora-run, also a dmenu replacement for scripts) |
| Files | lf, pcmanfm |
| Music / video | mpd + rmptui , mpv |
| Font / icons | Doto, Space Grotesk, Space Mono (shell UI, vendored in .local/share/fonts/glyph), JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, Papirus-Dark |
- The dot-matrix shaders and some components started out as ports from glyph-rice (GPL-3.0); those files say so in their header.
- Nothing, Nothing OS and Glyph are trademarks of Nothing Technology Ltd; this is a fan project, not affiliated with Nothing.
- Fonts in
.local/share/fonts/glyph/: Doto, Space Grotesk and Space Mono, under the SIL Open Font License (OFL.txtnext to them).