Packages

./setup packages installs whatever on this page is missing. The official packages go through pacman -Syu --needed, which upgrades the system in the same step, and the AUR ones through yay or paru. The desktop and the terminal are required; every later group is a feature that takes its own control away when its packages are missing, rather than failing.

howdy-next, for face unlock, is not listed: ./setup face installs it, and only where there is an infrared camera.

Desktop

Package	For
`hyprland`	the compositor and hyprctl
`quickshell`	the shell: the bar, the island, the lock, notifications
`awww`	the wallpaper
`imagemagick`	the palette board
`python`	every backend in scripts/
`git`	setup's own clones, ./setup cursors, lazy.nvim
`grim`	the capture's photograph, and the lock screen's
`dbus`	dbus-monitor, which hears logind about to sleep
`wl-clipboard`	copying, and the clipboard's history
`gtk3`	gtk-launch, which the launcher opens applications with
`libnotify`	notify-send, which the timer rings with
`fontconfig`	fc-list, in fonts.py
`pipewire`	the volume, through Quickshell's Pipewire service
`wireplumber`	wpctl, which the media keys call
`playerctl`	the play, pause, next and previous keys
`xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland`	screen sharing
`xdg-desktop-portal-gtk`	every Open dialog
`xdg-user-dirs`	the folders a capture lands in
`xdg-utils`	xdg-open, which yazi hands the rest to
`qt6ct`	the platform theme env.lua names
`qt6-multimedia`	the camera panel's preview
`qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg`	its backend, which reads the virtual camera
`papirus-icon-theme`	what the impasto icon theme inherits
`inter-font`	the shell's type, and the greeter's
`ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd`	the terminal's type, and every glyph on the bar
`adwaita-fonts`	the GTK windows' type
`noto-fonts`	the scripts the three above do not cover
`noto-fonts-emoji`	emoji, in colour
`unicode-emoji`	the emoji and their groups, for the launcher
`unicode-cldr-annotations`	their names and keywords, in every language
`iso-codes`	country names, for the flags
`noto-fonts-cjk`	Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and their punctuation

Terminal

Package	For
`kitty`
`zsh`
`starship`
`less`	kitty's scrollback pager, which base does not bring

Quick controls

Package	For
`brightnessctl`	the laptop panel's brightness
`ddcutil`	an external monitor's, over DDC/CI
`networkmanager`	the network tile, and nmcli
`bluez`	the bluetooth tile
`bluez-utils`	bluetoothctl, which switches it
`power-profiles-daemon`	the power profile
`upower`	the battery
`hyprsunset`	the night light
`hyprpicker`	the colour under the pointer
`pacman-contrib`	checkupdates, which counts the updates
`hyprshutdown`	SUPER + SHIFT + E exits through it, if installed

Capture

Package	For
`satty`	annotating
`tesseract`	reading a region as text
`tesseract-data-eng`	in English · one tesseract-data-* per language
`wf-recorder`	recording · wl-screenrec, in aur.txt, goes first
`libpulse`	pactl, which finds the output a recording hears
`pipewire-pulse`	what pactl talks to
`wl-screenrec`AUR	the recorder's GPU encoder, tried before wf-recorder

Terminal programs

Package	For
`fzf`	.zshrc reaches for it, and fzf-lua needs it
`zoxide`	.zshrc reaches for it if it is there
`fnm`	the same
`fastfetch`	the greeting, on `fa`
`btop`	themed by the palette push
`cava`	the same, and the bar's visualiser
`yazi`	the file manager in the terminal
`imv`	what yazi and the photo widget hand a picture to
`mpv`	what yazi hands a video or a song to
`ffmpeg`	an animated wallpaper's still, for its palette
`asciiquarium`
`unimatrix-git`AUR	the matrix alias
`cbonsai`AUR	the bonsai alias
`tty-clock`AUR	the clock alias
`lavat`AUR	the lava function

Editor

Package	For
`neovim`
`tree-sitter-cli`	compiles the parsers · base-devel has the compiler
`ripgrep`	the grep picker
`fd`	the file picker
`lua-language-server`	each server starts only if its binary is there
`pyright`	or basedpyright, from the AUR, which lsp.lua prefers
`ruff`
`bash-language-server`
`qt6-declarative`	qmlls6 · quickshell brings it anyway

File manager

Package	For
`nautilus`	SUPER + E
`nautilus-python`	its right-click menu
`ffmpegthumbnailer`	a video's thumbnail
`gvfs`	the trash, and mounting

Qt

Package	For
`polkit-kde-agent`	the password dialog when the shell cannot be the agent
`kconfig`	kreadconfig6, for the KDE half of the palette

Cursor

Package	For
`hyprcursor`	hyprcursor-util, which ./setup cursors compiles with
`bibata-cursor-theme-bin`AUR	the XCursor env.lua names, for clients with no hyprcursor

Hyprland plugins

Package	For
`hyprpm`	builds both plugins in ./setup plugins
`base-devel`	the compiler hyprpm builds with
`cmake`
`meson`
`cpio`

Package	For
`sddm`	./setup system
`plymouth`	the boot splash · ./setup splash
`accountsservice`	the account's full name, which both screens show

Face unlock

Package	For
`v4l-utils`	v4l2-ctl, which ./setup face and Settings find the infrared camera with

Virtual machines

Package	For
`qemu-desktop`	the qemu quickemu runs · quickemu is from the AUR
`quickemu`AUR	the machines panel · brings quickget, spicy and OVMF

Development

Package	For
`lua`	luac, for ./setup check
`inotify-tools`	./setup sync --watch, which copies every save

Icons

Package	For
`whitesur-icon-theme`AUR	the shell's application icons

Wallpaper

Package	For
`mpvpaper`AUR	plays an animated wallpaper

Themed applications

Package	For
`vscodium-bin`AUR	extensions and settings · ./setup vscodium
`zen-browser-bin`AUR
`vesktop-bin`AUR
`spotify`AUR
`spicetify-cli`AUR	applies the palette to Spotify · ./setup spotify