Packages

./setup packages installs whatever on this page is missing. The official packages go through pacman -S --needed, 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.

Desktop

Package	For
hyprland	the compositor, hyprctl and hyprpm
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
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
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

Terminal

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

Quick controls

Package	For
brightnessctl	brightness, and the keys for it
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-screenrecAUR	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
asciiquarium
unimatrix-gitAUR	the matrix alias
cbonsaiAUR	the bonsai alias
tty-clockAUR	the clock alias

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
thunar	SUPER + E
tumbler	thumbnails
ffmpegthumbnailer	a video's thumbnail
gvfs	the trash, and mounting
xfconf	xfconf-query, which ./setup thunar writes with

Qt

Package	For
polkit-kde-agent	the dialog that asks for a password
kconfig	kreadconfig6, for the KDE half of the palette

Cursor

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

Hyprland plugins

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

Login screen

Package	For
sddm	./setup system

Development

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

Themed applications

Package	For
vscodium-binAUR	extensions and settings · ./setup vscodium
zen-browser-binAUR
vesktop-binAUR
spotifyAUR
spicetify-cliAUR	applies the palette to Spotify · ./setup spotify