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Basic funcionality

Core

• NetworkManager (better networking then raw wpa_supplicant)
  • dbus (have to enable it before enabling NetworkManager. Also disable dhcpcd)
  • wpa_supplicant

For packages

• gcc & make (compile packages)
• curl & git & patch (download and maintain stuff)

Drivers and libs

• xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xf86-video-fbdev xf86-video-intel mesa mesa-dri intel-video-accel
• libXinerama-devel libXft-devel freetype-devel libX11-devel ncurses-term (dependencies for suckless software)

Audio

• sox alsa-tools alsa-lib-devel alsa-utils

X

• xorg-minimal xorg-fonts
• dwm (patched via dwm-flexipatch)
  • [[file:~/code/void-post/dwm-patches|patches]]
  • xsetroot (for the bar and sometimes for solid backgrounds)
• dunst (for notifications)
• dmenu (application picker)
• font-awesome5 (for emojis and stuff)
• font-cozette & cozettevector (my favorite font)
• xclip (for managing clipboard)
• xrandr (for screen resolution)
• sxhkd (simple x hot key daemon)
• xbacklight (for screen light)
• tlp (battery management)
• picom (compositor)
• unclutter (bc fuck the mouse)
• slock (simple screen locker)
• maim (screenshot utility, scrot was buggy for me)
• setxkbmap (for custom layout and language toggle)

Terminal

• st (patched via st-flexipatch)
  • [[file:~/code/void-post/st-patches|patches]]
• zsh (the best shell!!)
  • oh-my-zsh (framework for configuring zsh)
  • zsh-vim-mode (better vi mode)
  • zsh-syntax-highlighing (syntax on the command line!)
• tmux (for saving sessions, mutiple "pages" in terminal, copying stuff with the keyboard)
  • tpm (plugin manager)
  • tmux-copycat (better copy-mode)
  • tmux-open (open highlighted stuff directly from terminal)
  • tmux-yank (enable yank, which it should have by default)
  • tmux-prefix-highlight (shows when you press the prefix key)

TUIs

• ranger (File manager that a was using: good but bloated; go for lf)
  • ueberzug (for better window previews)
  • ffmpegthumbnailer (for video thumbnails)
• nnn (fast as fuck and written in C; just preview images with sxiv)
• newsboat (RSS feeds, mostly youtube, but for news from artix, void and arch)
• cordless (Discord client)
• weechat (IRC client)
• tuir (Reddit client)
• straw-viewer (faster alternative for mps-youtube; forked from youtube-viewer)
• htop (as always)
• alsamixer (sound without bloat)
• tremc (tui for transmission)

Tools

• fzf (fuzzyfinder, running uppond [[file:~/code/scripts/fuzzyfinder.sh|this script]])
• pass (password management)
  • gnupg (for gpg encription)
  • passmenu (implementation with dmenu)
• youtube-dl (for downloading videos from youtube and others)
  • ffmpeg
• tree
• feh (image viewer)
• mpv (THE BEST VIDEO VIEWER)
• shellcheck (syntax checker, mostly used to check if my script iw POSIX compliant)
• transmission (torrent client)

N E O V I M

Stuff for aesthetics

• Gruvbox (The best colorscheme)
• LightLine (Beautiful statusline, faster then airline)
• vim-css-color (preview hex colors)
• vim-indent-guides (not using rn, but beautiful)
• Dashboard (Prettier then startify)

Stuff for usability

• auto-pairs (""[]{}())
• vim-surround (delete things around words)
• vim-clap (file manager, fuzzy finder and more)
• vim-obsession (for tmux-ressurect)
• syntastic (compiling and syntax errors)
• vim-smoothie (vim smooth scrool)
• tabular (Align text, good for eqn)
• coc.nvim (Intelisence on nvim)
• vim-which-key (just for checking if bindings are ocupied)

Extra funcionality stuff

• Vimwiki (your own personal wiki; I use it kinda like an org mode)
• vim-markdown (markdown syntax)
• vim-table-mode (easely drawn tables)
• markdown-prevew (Markdown live preview)

GUI Aplications

• zathura (the bext pdf viewer)
  • zathura-pdf-poppler (poppler viewer engine)
  • zathura-cb (comic book support)
• qutebrowser (THE BEST BROWSER)
• gucharmap (for searching unicode chars)