LARBS

Programs

Utilities

• Window manager – dwm
• Statusbar – dwmblocks
• Terminal – st
• Shell – zsh
• Text editor – neovim
• File manager – lf
• Image viewer – nsxiv
• Video player – mpv
• Music player – ncmpcpp, mpd
• Document viewer – zathura (mupdf)
• Spreadsheet editor – sc-im
• Video/audio editor – ffmpeg
• Password manager – pass
• Email client – mutt-wizard, neomutt
• RSS reader – newsboat
• Torrent client – transmission

System

• Script menus – dmenu
• Notifications – dunst
• Appointments – calcurse
• Screen lock – slock
• Audio system – wireplumber (pipewire-pulse)
• Audio controller – pulsemixer
• Commands queue – task-spooler
• Phone mounting – simple-mtpfs
• File search – fzf
• Screenshots – maim

Miscellaneous

• Video downloads – yt-dlp
• Image previews – ueberzugpp
• HTML viewer – lynx
• OCR engine – tesseract

Optional

These must be explicitly installed, program/script which it’s used by in parentheses.

• Document writing – groff, markdown, latex
• Image modification – imagemagick, gimp
• System colors – xrdb, pywal
• System information – neofetch
• Cronjobs – cronie
• File transfer – rsync, syncthing
• Torrent client – stig (transmission)
• URL viewer – urlview (neomutt)
• Network monitor – bmon (sb-nettraf)
• GeoIP – geoip (sb-geoip)
• Markup – pandoc (compiler)
• Bar codes – zbar (otp)
• Subtitles – subdl (mpv)
• Wave viewer – gtkwave (lf)
• Key presses – screenkey (dwm)
• Scripts – shellcheck (nvim)
• Scanners – sane
• Dictionary – sdcv

Scripts

Statusbar

Scripts prefixed with sb- for the statusbar are put in ~/.local/bin/statusbar. An example output of each with a description:

Right-clicking any block on the statusbar will also send a notification of what it does.

Files

Bookmarks

Configs

Local

Keybinds

Most things re-use vim keys, e.g:

• h, j, k, l – Move cursor, go back or forward.
• gg/G – Go to the top or bottom.
• y – Copy.
• d – Cut.
• p – Paste.

dwm

• Tags:
  • Super+1…9 – View tag.
  • Super+0 – View all tags.
  • Super+Shift+1…9 – Shift tag.
  • Super+Shift+0 – Shift to all tags.
  • Super+g/; – View previous/next tag.
  • Super+G/Shift+; – Shift to previous/next tag.
  • Super+G/Shift+; – Shift to previous/next tag.
• Windows:
  • Super+Enter – Open terminal (st).
  • Super+Shift+Enter – Show/hide pop-up terminal.
  • Super+q – Close window.
  • Super+d – Command prompt (dmenu).
  • Super+j/k – Select window up/down.
  • Super+h/l – Change master window width.
  • Super+Space – Make selected window master.
  • Super+Shift+Space – Float window.
  • Super+z/x – Increase/decrease window gaps.
  • Super+a – Toggle window gaps.
  • Super+A – Reset window gaps.
  • Super+s – Make window sticky.
  • Super+b – Toggle statusbar.
  • Super+v – Select master window.
• Layout:
  • Super+f – Fullscreen window.
  • Super+F – Floating mode.
  • Super+t – Tiling mode (default).
  • Super+T – Bottom stack mode.
  • Super+y – Fibonacci spiral mode.
  • Super+Y – Dwindle mode.
  • Super+u – Master on left, others in monocle mode.
  • Super+U – Monocle mode.
  • Super+i – Center master window.
  • Super+I – Center & float master window.
  • Super+o/O – Increase/decrease number of master windows.
• Programs:
  • Super+w – Web browser (librewolf).
  • Super+W – Network manager (nmtui).
  • Super+e – Email client (mutt).
  • Super+E – Address book (abook).
  • Super+r – File manager (lf).
  • Super+R – Task manager (htop).
  • Super+D – Password menu (pass).
  • Super+c – XMPP client (profanity).
  • Super+n – Notes (vimwiki).
  • Super+N – RSS reader (newsboat).
  • Super+m – Music player (ncmpcpp).
  • Super+' – Show/hide pop-up calculator (bc).
  • Super+~ – Emoji list, copies to clipboard.
  • Super+Insert – Paste URL from bookmarks.
• Audio:
  • Super+p – Pause/play music.
  • Super+P – Pause all playing videos.
  • Super+M – Pause music & pause all videos.
  • Super+-/+ – Decrease/increase volume.
  • Super+,/. – Play previous/next song.
  • Super+</> – Restart song/toggle repeat.
  • Super+[/] – Seek back/forward 10 seconds.
  • Super+{/} – Seek back/forward 1 minute.
• System:
  • Super+Q/Backspace – Menu for lock screen, logout, shutdown, sleep, &c.
  • Super+F1 – Open LARBS guide.
  • Super+F2 – Tutorial videos menu.
  • Super+F3 – Display select.
  • Super+F4 – Audio controller (pulsemixer).
  • Super+F5 – Update system colors (xrdb).
  • Super+F6 – Torrent client (stig).
  • Super+F7 – Toggle torrent daemon (transmission).
  • Super+F8 – Refresh mail (mutt-wizard).
  • Super+F9 – Mount USB/hard drive or phone.
  • Super+F10 – Unmount USB/hard drive or phone.
  • Super+F11 – Webcam viewer.
  • Super+F12 – Re-apply keyboard mappings.
• Recording:
  • PrtSc – Take a screenshot.
  • Shift+PrtSc – Select area to screenshot.
  • Super+PrtSc – Menu for screen recording.
  • Super+Delete – End recording.
  • Super+C – Toggle webcam.
  • Super+ScrLk – Toggle key press display (screenkey).

st

• Alt+j/k – Scroll up/down terminal history
• Alt+u/d – Faster scroll.
• Alt+c – Copy selected text to clipboard.
• Alt+v – Paste clipboard contents.
• Alt+l – Pull all URLs & pick one to open via dmenu.
• Alt+y – Pull all URLs & pick one to copy via dmenu.
• Alt+o – Copy the output from a recent command.
• Alt+J/K – Decrease/increase font size.
• Alt+a/s – Decrease/increase transparency.

zsh

• Ctrl+o – Change directory with lf.
• Ctrl+f – Find file/directory with fzf.
• Ctrl+a – Open calculator with bc.

lf

• Navigation:
  • h, j, k, l – Move cursor, descend into directories, & open files.
  • Ctrl+u/d – Move more up or down.
  • g/G – Move cursor to the top or bottom.
  • w – Open a terminal in the current directory, returns to on exit.
• Selection:
  • Space – Select file(s).
  • d – Cut file(s).
  • y – Yank file(s).
  • p – Paste file(s).
  • C – Copy file(s) to a bookmarked directory.
  • M – Move file(s) to a bookmarked directory.
  • Ctrl+l – Unselect file(s).
• Renaming:
  • c – Rename with clear input.
  • A – Rename from end.
  • a – Rename from after extension.
  • I – Rename from start.
  • i – Rename from before extension.
  • B – Bulk rename.
• Ctrl+n – Create a new directory.
• V – Create a new file with nvim.
• J – Open a bookmarked directory.
• H – Return to home directory.
• s – sort files by a different metric.
• z – Show extra data or hidden files.
• u – Copy file name to clipboard.
• U – Copy file path to clipboard.
• T – Open thumbnail mode with nsxiv.
• b – Set file/directory as the wallpaper.

When opening a file, each file type/extension will open in the following program:

nsxiv

• h, l, j, k – Pan image/move selection.
• -/+ – Zoom out/int.
• Enter – Toggle thumbnail mode.
• f – Toggle fullscreen.
• n/p – Go forward/back an image.
• r – Reload image if changed.
• w – Fit image to window.
• e/E – Fit image to width/height.
• </> – Rotate image.
• ? – Rotate image 180°.
• |/_ – Flip image.
• m - Mark/unmark image.
• Ctrl+x – Execute external command:
  • c – Copy image to bookmarked directory.
  • m – Move image to bookmarked directory.
  • d – Delete image.
  • r/R – Rotate image & save to file.
  • f – Flip image & save to file.
  • y – Copy image name to clipboard.
  • Y – Copy image path to clipboard.
  • x – Copy image file to clipboard.
  • g – Open image in Gimp.
  • w – Set image as wallpaper.
  • i – Show image information.
• b – Toggle statusbar.

mpv

• h/l – Jump back/forward 10 seconds.
• j/k – Jump back/forward 60 seconds.
• Space – Toggle pause.
• S – Toggle subtitles.
• o – Briefly view progress bar & time.
• O – Toggle time visibility.
• i – Show video information.

ncmpcpp

• Navigation:
  • h, j, k, l – Move cursor & navigate the music library.
  • Ctrl+u/d – Move cursor up or down more.
  • g/G – Move cursor to the top or bottom.
• m – Music library (press again to alternate album/album artist view):
  • Space – Add to end of playlist.
  • / – Search:
    • n/N – Next/previous match.
  • e – Edit tags.
• P – Current playlist:
  • p – Pause/play.
  • </> – Skip back or ahead a song.
  • x – Remove song.
  • c – Clear playlist.
  • Z – Shuffle playlist.
  • . – Show/download lyrics.
• f – Directory explorer.
• s – Search engine.
• t – Directory tagger.
• v – Visualizer.

zathura

• h, j, k, l – Pan document.
• J/K – Zoom out/in.
• d/u – Go down/up half a page.
• g/G – Go to the top/bottom of document.
• s/a – Zoom to fit width/height.
• D – Toggle dual-page mode.
• R – Rotate document.
• r – Reload document.
• f – Highlight URLS to follow.
• p – Print document.

neomutt

• ? – See all bindings for current screen.
• i# – Change account (replace # with the number set by mutt-wizard).
• Mail index screen:
  • h, j, k, l – Move cursor and open/close mail.
  • gg/G – Go to the top/bottom.
  • / – Search mail subjects:
    • n/N – Next/previous match.
  • m – Compose new mail.
  • r – Reply to mail.
  • s – Select mailbox to save mail to.
  • c – Select mailbox to change to.
  • g, M, C – Combine with the following to go/move/copy mail to:
    • i – Inbox
    • d – Drafts
    • s – Sent
    • a – Archive
    • j – Junk
  • D/U – Mark/unmark for deletion.
  • Space – Select mail.
  • o/O – Sync mail for current/all accounts.
  • Ctrl+r – Mark all as read.
  • Ctrl+f – Search mail bodies.
  • Ctrl+j/k – Move up or down the sidebar.
  • Ctrl+o – Open highlighted mailbox in the sidebar.
  • B – Toggle sidebar.
• Open mail screen:
  • j/k – Move up/down.
  • d/u - Move down/up half page.
  • J/K – Go to next/previous email.
  • v – View attachments:
    • l – Open attachment.
    • s – Save attachment.
• Compose mail screen:
  • a – Attach a file.
  • m – Edit highlighted attachment in text editor.
  • S – Choose how to sign and/or encrypt mail (with PGP).
  • y – Send mail.

abook

• ? – See all bindings.
• a – Add a contact.
• h, j, k, l – Move cursor or tab.
• d – Delete contact.
• D – Duplicate contact.
• S – Sort contacts.

newsboat

• h, j, k, l – Move cursor, enter/close feed or article.
• J/K - Previous/next feed.
• u/d – Go up or down more.
• g/G – Go to the top or bottom.
• a – Mark article as read.
• A – Mark feed as read.
• n/N – Go to next/previous unread.
• o – Open the main link of an article with linkhandler:
  • Videos open in mpv.
  • Images open in nsxiv.
  • Audios download to the home directory.
  • Otherwise, opens in the browser.
• , – Combines with one of the following:
  • t – Queues video download with yt-dlp.
  • a – Queues audio download with yt-dlp.
  • v – Opens in mpv.
  • w – Opens in lynx.
  • d – Opens with dmenuhandler.
  • c – Copies link to the clipboard.
  • C – Shows comments with youtube-viewer.
  • p – Torrent PeerTube video (480p).
  • P – Torrent PeerTube video (1080p).