dotfiles/.config/rice/README.md
Sarthak b4c6c7dbd5 replace the rofi control centre with a real GTK panel
rofi spawns a process per menu, so every volume nudge and every step back
destroyed and recreated the window. That is the flicker, and no tuning fixes
it. The panel is now one GTK window: a GtkStack for views, real GtkScale
sliders wired to wpctl, status on a timer, and a pidfile so super+x toggles
it shut. Escape steps back inside the same window.

Also: picom no longer fades or animates rofi, ::selection is not valid GTK
css, and the network/bluetooth lists no longer print their payload column.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cn3dHfbgNYdbZvzb1b3GQt
2026-09-04 01:12:49 +05:30

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bspwm rice. Palette sampled from ~/.config/bspwm/wallpaper/wallpaper.jpg.

Replicate on a fresh machine

bash <(curl -fsSL https://git.srtk.in/sarthak/dotfiles/raw/branch/main/.config/rice/install.sh)

Or, if the dotfiles are already cloned:

~/.config/rice/install.sh            # full run
~/.config/rice/install.sh --dry-run  # show what it would do, change nothing

Arch is the first-class target. Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora are best-effort — the desktop, build and theming steps work; the AUR extras are skipped.

The script is safe to re-run. Anything in $HOME that would be overwritten by the dotfiles checkout is moved to ~/.rice-backup-<timestamp>/ first.

What it sets up

WM bspwm + sxhkd
Bar polybar (translucent, rounded)
Compositor picom (rounded corners, vsync)
Launcher rofi, centred, with icons
Notifications dunst
Terminal st, built from st/config.h here (upstream gitignores it)
Wallpaper layer particles, built from particles/ here
Toolkits GTK2/3/4 via gtk.css overrides, Qt via qt6ct

Control centre

super + x, or the gear at the right of the bar, opens one centred GTK panel that drives everything. Press it again to close. It is a real window, so the sliders are live and stepping back between views never redraws the panel:

Network Wi-Fi on/off, rescan, pick a network (password prompt inline)
Bluetooth power on/off, scan, connect/disconnect paired devices
Audio live volume and microphone sliders; click the icon to mute
VPN WireGuard up/down via systemctl wg-quick@…
Notifications do-not-disturb toggle
Clipboard / Screenshot / Bar greenclip, flameshot, hide the bar
Wallpaper / Particles shuffle, toggle the particle layer
Power lock, log out, suspend, reboot, shut down

Escape steps back from a subview; Escape on the main view closes it.

Keybindings

super + Return terminal (st)
super + w app launcher (rofi drun)
super + x control centre
super + v clipboard history
super + b toggle the bar
super + alt + p screenshot (flameshot)
super + q close window
super + f fullscreen
super + space float/tile
super + Escape reload sxhkd

Palette

role hex from
bg #0f0d17 twilight shadow
fg #e9eefb cool white
accent #92b9ea sky
red #cf6a80 blossom
green #8fae74 grass
yellow #d8a87c train stripe
magenta #b483c0 plum blossom
cyan #8ab6c4 station house

Changing the wallpaper does not re-derive these — they are written into each app's config.

Layout

.config/rice/
├── install.sh        one-shot bootstrap
├── packages.txt      package list ("aur:" prefix = needs an AUR helper)
├── st/config.h       st build config
└── particles/        wallpaper-layer particle field (source + Makefile)