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✨ v1.0.0 — The Ultimate Arch Hyprland Experience

Welcome to the first official release of RAINZ's Arch Hyprland Rice.
This is more than just a collection of dotfiles — it's a meticulously crafted, highly optimized Wayland desktop environment designed for aesthetics and peak productivity.

Whether you're a Wayland veteran or just starting with Arch Linux, this release gives you everything needed to transform a blank terminal into a stunning, fully functional desktop in minutes.


🌟 Headline Features

🧩 Brand New Interactive TUI Installer

Say goodbye to manual setup and dependency headaches. This release introduces a fully automated, visually polished terminal installer powered by gum.

  • Express or Custom Mode
    Install everything in one go, or selectively choose your terminal, tools, and core components.

  • Safe Stowing & Smart Backups
    Only the relevant configurations are modified, with automatic backups stored at:
    ~/.config.bak_[date]

  • Live Spinners
    Elegant loading indicators for pacman, yay, and git — always know what's happening.


🌌 Noctalia Shell Integration

A complete replacement for traditional tools like Waybar, SwayNC, and wlogout.

  • Unified status bar
  • Seamless notifications
  • Integrated control center

All wrapped in a sleek, consistent Wayland experience.


🌠 "Nebula" Zen Browser

A privacy-focused, heavily customized browsing experience featuring:

  • Cosmic Nebula CSS theme
  • Clean, compact sidebar layout
  • Built-in uBlock Origin integration

🖥️ Terminal Freedom

Choose your preferred GPU-accelerated terminal — all pre-configured with the Noctalia aesthetic:

  • Ghostty
  • Kitty
  • WezTerm

⌨️ Vim-Like Workflow Everywhere

A consistent, keyboard-driven experience across tools:

  • Yazi — File Manager
  • Zathura — PDF Viewer

Both styled with Noctalia colors and optimized for terminal-centric workflows.


📦 Wallpapers

To keep the repository lightweight and fast:

  • High-resolution wallpapers are provided separately.

Setup Instructions:

  1. Download:

    • Wallpapers.zip
  2. Extract and move:

    mv Wallpapers ~/Pictures/

🚀 Quick Start Instructions

Starting from a fresh Arch Linux install (ensure git and GPU drivers are installed):

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/R7rainz/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles 

# 2. Navigate into the directory
cd ~/dotfiles

# 3. Run the interactive installer
./install.sh

🧠 Optional: Neovim Setup

For a complete development environment, install the matching Neovim configuration:

git clone https://github.com/R7rainz/neovim-conf ~/.config/nvim

🤝 Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

  • The Arch Linux community
  • Hyprland developers
  • Noctalia Shell creators
  • Zen Browser & Nebula theme contributors

⭐ Support

If this setup enhances your workflow, consider starring the repository — it helps a lot!


Built with precision, performance, and passion.
RAINZ