My Qtile Rice

By Zakky ยท 09/17/2025

My Qtile Rice

Why do i use Gentoo?

I use Gentoo Linux as my main distribution at the moment because its the one distro that doesn’t cause me any problems + its pretty stable and i do like the fact that i have to compile everything and the performance boost that comes along with compiling everything for your specific hardware is pretty noticible!

Why do i use qtile instead of Dwm, AwesomeWM, XMonad, etc..

I find qtile being a very fast window manager even tho its written in python which in theory should make it slow but it doesn’t! + Qtile is a very customizable window manager by default and you also have more stuff to choose from Qtile Extras

Why nord theme?

I choose nord theme because of the desaturated colors that are more easier on the eyes while working long hours.

What do i use this setup for:

  • School Work
  • Watching Movies
  • Learning

Software i use on daily bases:

  • Neovim (For Code Editing And Writing PDF’s Using LaTeX)
  • Alacritty (Terminal)
  • Dmenu (App & Script Launcher)
  • Firefox (Web Browser)
  • Discord (Chatting)
  • Spotify (Music)
  • Ranger (Terminal File Browser)
  • Thunar (GUI File Browser)

Dependecies:

  • python
  • python-psutil
  • qtile
  • xorg
  • libX11
  • libXft
  • libXinerama

Install steps:

  1. Install qtile with your distro package manager.

  2. Git clone the repo from my github.

git clone https://github.com/zakky20/qtiledots
  1. Cd into the cloned repo
sudo mv qtile ~/.config
  1. Now you are pretty much done! Just do a Shift+R to reload the qtile config and you are done. Enjoy!