What's Inside of LARBS?

LARBS has everything you need to have a /comfy/ Linux ricing configuration without any of the work.

Installed by Default

• i3-gaps (window manager)
• polybar – status bar (the thing at the top)
• urxvt – terminal emulator (Mod+Enter)
• rofi – run prompt (Mod+d)
• ranger – file browser (Mod+r; also numerous tools for getting previews)
• neomutt – email (Mod+e; requires some setup)
• w3m – terminal browser and tool for viewing images in the terminal
• newsbeuter – RSS reader (Mod+n)
• ncmpcpp – Music player (Mod+m)
• mpv – video player (also views gifs)
• calcurse – calendar and schedule application (Mod+y)
• htop – system moniter (Mod+i)
• youtube-dl – terminal tool for downloading online videos/audio/playlists from various sites
• feh (image viewer and used for wallpapers)
• mupdf – .pdf viewer
• evince – another .pdf viewer, not as lightweight as mupdf, but better for viewing enormous .pdfs
• scrot – for taking screenshots
• tmux – terminal multiplexer
• R – used as a calculator (Mod+a), but can be used generally as well
• pavucontrol – audio manager (Mod+A)

Tools

Programs here you won't necessarily use directly, but are important tools for other programs.

• Pulseaudio – audio system
• Network Manager – exactly what it sound like
• mediainfo, poppler, highlight, w3m, atool, libcaca – programs for getting previews of various things in ranger; each has additional uses
• notmuch, notmuch-mutt, offlineimap, msmtp – backend email tools
• unzip, unrar – for archive extraction
• ntfs-3g, dosfstools – for handling Windows-formatted USBs
• mpd – backend for music/audio
• pywal – theme setter
• compton – composite manager

Optional installation

Browsers to choose from

qutebrowser, Firefox, Waterfox, Palemoon. I mostly use Waterfox nowadays; I recommend the VimFX plugin.

LaTeX Packages

If you choose this option, you'll get all LaTeX packages (texlive-most, texlive-lang), biber for references and the vim-live-latex-preview for automatic compiling.

Decoration

If this option is chosen, you get Project M (a visualizer; Mod+V), cmatrix, asciiquarium, bash-pipes (terminal screensavers), screenfetch and neofetch (for posting on 4chan, duh), cli-visualizer and speedometer (for network speeds).

Other programs you can individually select

GIMP (image creator, editing program), Blender (video editor), the Libreoffice Suite (fully-featured equivalents of Word/Excel/Powerpoint, etc.), Emacs.

You can also get transmission, a torrent client, which by default, I have the terminal interface installed (Mod+F6).

There is also an option to install more complete fonts, giving you fonts for emojis, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and ancient languages.