v3.0.0

Yay we hit v3.0!!!

Another one hell of a beefy release with over ~3800 additions and ~4000 deletions.

This release brings massive configurability improvements across the board, an overall more uniform look-n-feel, counteless big and small fixes and tweaks, and a couple of new features, such as sWifi and sScreenshot utilities.

v3.0 also ships a fully featured all-LUA (and slightly opinionated) neovim distribution

Added

• Easily configurable scripts!

  Each script will source a config sh file, by default:
  XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles/name_of_the_script.sh (e.g. sLockscreenctl.sh) in which is possible to override the settings used in the script

• sScreenshot script to quickly grab a screenshot to clipboard

• sWifi script to handle WiFi connections via rofi

• i3: sWifi keybinding (super + y and super + shift + y)

• i3: sScreenshot keybinding (super + shift + s)

• i3: rofi-calc, calculator with rofi added to XF86Calculator keybinding

• i3: user configs (i3/config.d/*.conf) will now be sourced

• i3: homerow keys (hjkl) keybindings to focus, move and resize windows

• i3: wakelock keybinding (alt + XF86ScreenSaver)

• lazydotfiles alias to launch lazygit for dotfiles

• polybar: small dedicated bar containing the tray

• fontconfig: nerdfont family alias

• fontconfig: sans-serif family alias

• sBatteryctl: battery monitor and notifications
  Completely rewritten battery level monitoring logic, with added customizable notifications when the battery reaches the configurable thresholds.
  
  A systemd service and timer are provided and can be activated with systemd

  systemd --user enable --now sBatteryctl.timer

• sPolybarctl: icon arts in notifications

• A fully featured all-LUA neovim distro

  • Organized and easily tweakable configuration structure
  • Custom minimal statusline, tabline and winbar
  • Easily configurable keybindings for neovim and plugins
  • Minimal and straight to the point look-n-feel, but without giving up features
  • LSP and DAP ready, for all your coding and debugging needs
    • java and rust development ready

Changed

• dotfiles folder has been moved from $HOME to $XDG_DATA_HOME

• zsh: increased history size from 1000 to 10000

• zsh: moved theme from $HOME to $XDG_DATA_HOME

• completely refactored most scripts

  • renamed variables
  • general performance improvements
  • to improve scripts portability notify-send command is now used to send notification instead of dunstctl
  • sLockscreenctl:
    • massive performance improvements with background type "magick" (former blurAndDim) which allows for much stronger blur too
    • background color by default now is transparent, which allows picom to handle blur (very fast!)
    • improved positioning of indicator, clock and greeter to be correct on different screen sizes
    • fixed not properly going to standby after locking
    • allow for greeter and other texts to have spaces
    • media control players will now pause instead of stopping, allowing to resume the player after resuming from suspend
  • sPlayerctl:
    • added pause and play commands
    • player selection has now been implemented manually with rofi actions, instead of notification actions
  • sTodo: complete rewrite
    • the todo file is stored in XDG_DATA_HOME/simonvic/todo/todo.csv
    • the todo file is in csv format, allowing to change frontend without breaking older todo files
    • great performance improvements

• i3: changed lockscreen keybinding to super + ctrl + l

• i3: changed horizonal splitting keybinding to super + x

• i3: increased gap size

• i3: "configurable" desktop wallpaper
  i3 will now look for desktop wallpaper in its config directory called desktop_wallpaper.
  It might be a good idea to make a symlink to your desired wallpaper:
  $ ln -s "/path/to/your/image.jpg" "$HOME/.config/i3/desktop_wallpaper"

• i3: refactored config

• sBrightnessctl: redshift restore capability instead of separate i3 script

• picom: disabled fading to give a more responsive feeling

• polybar: improved icons, fixed outdated (now using latest FontAwesome version)

• polybar: improved shadow radius and opacity

• polybar: moved tray to dedicated bar

  The tray settings have been marked as deprecated in favor of a new tray module, but since it's currently not possible to achieve the current look, the new tray module has been configured but it's disabled

• polybar: removed earbuds module

• polybar: removed todolist module

• polybar: replaced scripts with inline commands

• polybar: internal backlight module is used for brightness instead of relying on sBrightnessctl

• polybar: replaced deprecated content field

• polybar: hook format for redshift module are defined in the polybar config instead of being hardcoded in sBrightnessctl

• polybar: hook format for bluetooth module are defined in the polybar config instead of being hardcoded in sBluetoothctl

• rofi: complete refactor of styles and config to allow more modularity and customizability

• rofi: removed unused themes

• dunst: notification panel minor style changes

• dunst: progress bar restyle

• sTodo: remove default header

Fixed

• Globbing and word splitting across all scripts

• Return error masking across all scripts

• Added format argument to all printf command across all scripts

• General color consistency across Rofi, Dunst, Polybar and i3

• dunst: update boolean values from yes/no to true/false

• dunst: min and max icon size

• dunst: changed offset

• i3: update launch args for picom v10

• sTodo: many instances of notify-send zombie process

• polybar: temperature module not loading with hardcoded hwmon-path

• polybar: most spacing issues between modules

• polybar: missing initial hook for ipc modules

• sBluetoothctl: polybar icons not updating properly

  In latest bluetoothctl version, power and connection commands are non-blocking, causing polybar icons to not update properly.
  
  A workaround has been used to poll bluetooth status change; eventually to be replaced with a udev rule

• sBrightnessctl: screensaver brightness transition

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v3.0.0

v2.6.0

Damn, that's one beefy update! Here's a quick summary:

• Much less cluttered home!
• Ditched vim in favor of neovim [ 4e31c72 ]
• Yeeted oh-my-zsh! Welcome vanilla zsh! [ fad50e6 ]
• Improved notifications (more icons, better body formatting and cooler fonts)
• Improved overall scripts quality
• Fonts changes:
  • sans-serif: Work Sans, Lato
  • serif: Liberation
  • monospaced: Source Code Pro
• Transitioned to pipewire (you should too, it's amazing!)

Added

• A lot more comments on all scripts
• sBatteryctl: wakelock functionality to temporarily disable DPMS/Screensaver
• polybar: wakelock module (a cup of coffee will appear when wakelock is enabled)
• zsh: new Cp alias to quickly copy to clipboard (e.g. pwd | Cp)
  • dunst: More icons for sVolumectl, sMicrophonectl and sBrightnessctl
• fontconfig new rule for explicitly setting preferred font (because of dunst's pango renderer)
  • sans-serif: Work Sans, Lato
  • serif: Liberation
  • monospaced: Source Code Pro
• New script and polybar module for earbuds (currently unused)
• polybar: new "connected" icon for bluetooth, when being connected to a device
• polybar: new bar-switch-main module
• sVolumectl, sMicrophonectl: new "set" command
• sTodo: new notification icon

Changed

• Ditched vim in favor of neovim! [ 4e31c72 ]
  • the configuration has been done in multiple files, to allow more modularity and customizability
• Yeeted oh-my-zsh! Welcome vanilla zsh [ fad50e6 ]
  • .zshrc has been configured to behave like it used to with oh-my-zsh
  • the prompt is now defined in prompt_simonvic-minimal_setup
  • Moved history file to ~/.local/share/zsh/histfile
  • Moved completation dump file to ~/.local/share/zsh/zcompdump
• Now using pactl instead of amixer
  In order to make everything work with PipeWire, audio inputs and outputs
  are now handled via pactl utility.
• dunst: enabled recursive icon lookup
  Changed hardcoded icon paths in scripts with symbolic icons; icons theme is set in dunstrc and can be easily changed, reflecting the change in all scripts
• DrawBar.sh: completely rewrote the script for drawing bar for notifications (finally lol)
  • the script has been moved to ~/.local/bin
• dunst: overall improvement of notifications body content
• polybar: update for polybar 3.6.0
  • renamed config to config.ini
  • removed deprecated settings (throttle-output and throttle-output-fo)
• sPolybarctl: replaced ipc command with message which simply wraps polybar-msg but allows to send messages to named polybar
• sPolybarctl: redirected polybars and polybar-msg logs to their dedicated logs file (/tmp/simonvic/sPolybarctl)
• sVolumectl,sMicrophonectl: refactored the up/down options for consistency; they're now named increase and decrease
• Now using "Sauce Code Pro Nerd Font" instead of "Iosevka"
• polybar: Removed unused fonts from the configuration
• polybar: now using DejaVu patched font for wifi ramp icons
• feh won't create anymore ".fehbg" file in home
• zsh: moved return code before timestamp in the RPROMPT
• polybar: Reordered some modules in the main polybar
• polybar: Left clicking on the AUR module will open a terminal with a list of packages to update; right clicking will refresh the count.
• keybindings: XF86ScreenSaver will set brightness to 5 instead of 1
• dunst: notifications are now centered
• i3: disabled suspend on screensaver
• picom: removed deprecated refresh-rate option
• sTodo/rofi: sTodo notification will now invoke i3-sensible-terminal instead of rofi-sensible-terminal, which could fail with some terminals
• htop: removed some columns

Fixed

• Rofi themes for rofi > 1.7.0
• sLockscreenctl: update for i3lock-color new options names (2.13.c.3)
• Update for dunst > 1.7.0
  • Dunst keybindings are now handled by the i3 config
  • Cleaned up dunstrc
• polybar: Fonts are now correctly aligned vertically

Removed

• newsboat configuration and urls files
• sPolybarctl: ipc command [ 97d3676 ]
• zsh: "theme" alias

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FULL CHANGELOG: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

v2.5.0

ADDED

• New features and customization options for zsh theme [021392c]
• HTOP configuration file

CHANGED

• Changed all dunst notification id [6871953] [d7dba85]
• Rewrote zsh theme from scratch [021392c]
• Rewrote sBatteryctl from scratch [b5332d4]
• Support for i3lock-color 2.13.c.2
• Changed ssh display text to :$

FIXES

• Notifications are now aligned with windows top border
• Fixed missing wakelock icon

v2.4.0

ADDED

• sBluetoothctl can now connects using device name
• sBluetoothctl now creates battery status file if not present
• sTodo now creates todo file if not present
• sPlayerctl can now stop all playing players at once
• Keybinding to stop all players
• New sLockscreenctl setting: stopAllPlayersOnSuspend
• oh-my-zsh theme now recognizes ssh connection with a new prompr char (~#)

CHANGED

• Added shadow on main polybar
• Minor style tweaks
• Code reformat
• Less clutter in /tmp folder
• Removed clipboard aliases (Cp, Vp, Xp)

FIXES

• Silenced polybar hook messages
• Specified ZSH_CUSTOM in .zshrc
• Outer gap not shrinking when hiding all polybars

v2.3.1

ADDED

• On-the-fly mpris player selector to sPlayerctl and notifications
• sPlayerctl "auto" mpris selector
• keybindings for player selector
• Connect command to sBluetoothctl
• Wakelock command to sBatteryctl
• ZEN mode to i3gaps (W.I.P.)
• Cp, Xp, Vp (copy, cut, paste) aliases

CHANGED

• picom config file redone from scratch (with minor style changes)
• rework of how to manage main polybar gap [32f0454]
• rofi themes and config redone from scratch (with minor style changes) [740436d]
• minor style changes
• changed prompt char to "$" (dollar)
• removed rounded corners to dunst notifications
• temporarily removed YCM from vim
• refactored i3 config file

FIXED

• minor fixes for polybar 3.5.0 compatibility
• specified pulse device for sVoluemctl and sMicrophonectl
• empty parenthesis on lockscreen
• reduced window title lenght in secondary polybar (causing it to overflow)

v2.2.1

ADDED

• Screenshot (fullscreen and select area) keybinding (scrot)
• vim keybinding to toggle NERDTree

CHANGED

• xo alias (xdg-open) now disowns the process
• Cleaned i3 config
• Minor style changes
• removed NERDTree autostart

FIXED

• todo module

v2.1.0

ADDED

• New commands abbreviations

CHANGED

• sLockscreenctl commands

v2.0.0

ADDED

• New vim themes
• Added sBluetoothctl
• sPolybarctl (former polybar-manager.sh) now supports IPC calls

CHANGED

• Scripts renamed and restructured
• Huge performance improvement with polybar IPC
  • Remade most of the module using ipc
• sPolybarctl (former polybar-manager.sh) now uses polybar names instead of IDs
• Various new icons
• Updated to dunst 1.5.0-1
• Faster newsboat
• Removed preview gifs
• Minor style tweaks

FIXED

• Minor fixes

v1.3.2

ADDED

• Calculator with rofi (rofi-calc)
• Bing wallpaper of the day [WIP]
• Alias "xo" for xdg-open

FIXED

• Correct detection if no players are found

CHANGED

• Tweaked third polybar
  • It's now smaller and centered
  • Removed todo-list module
  • Removed aur-updated module
• Polybars are now blurred with picom
• Increased blur strength