🍙 My Ricing Dotfiles for Windows 11

Yes it's Windows

Introduction

❤️ For the Ricing and Unixporn Enthusiasts

Are you a ricing nerd or a unixporn enthusiast who has to use Windows but still misses the customizability of Linux? Look no further! This repository is a treasure trove of my ricing dotfiles tailored specifically for Windows.

⚙️ Custom Themes and Configurations

It includes a variety of custom themes, scripts, and configurations designed to bring the same level of aesthetic appeal and functionality to your Windows desktop that you love from your Linux setups.

⚡ Instant Theme Switching

Easily switch themes on the fly with just one press. Keep your desktop fresh and aligned with your mood or preferences instantly and effortlessly.

😍 Transform Your Windows Experience

Dive in, tweak to your heart's content, and transform your Windows environment into a beautifully riced masterpiece!

Core

• Terminal: Windows Terminal
• Shell: Zsh inside MSYS2
• Tiling Window Manager: GlazeWM 3.9.1
• Bar: Zebar 3.1.1
• Package manager: Winget
• Dotfiles manager: Chezmoi

🎨 Themes

ℹ️Note: This dotfiles are configured specifically for my 1440p screen, so things might appear larger on smaller screens. I suggest using my dotfiles as a base and customizing it to fit your specific needs.

✨ wasabi
Mysterious and alluring

✨ aqua
Full of curiosity and charm

✨ shuri
A gentle presence in shades of purple

⚙️ Current Configurable Settings

You can customize each theme inside ~/.rice-manager/rices and re-apply it (see Change theme below)

• ☑️ Windows Terminal theme
• ☑️ GlazeWM border theme
• ☑️ Zebar theme
• ☑️ Desktop wallpaper based on rice
• ☑️ Vscode theme
• ☑️ Windows light/dark mode based on rice ❌ Disabled - currently unstable and buggy
• ❓ Windows color based on rice
• 🚧 under construction

📑 Basic usage

Change theme

• From terminal use command: rice <theme-name> (example: rice aqua)
• Wallpaper is selected randomize from rice's wallpaper folder.
• Use rice for helps.

Change wallpaper

• From terminal use command: wallpaper <theme-name> (example: wallpaper aqua)
• This will change the wallpaper only, allow you to use wallpaper from other themes.
• Wallpaper is selected randomize from selected rice's wallpaper folder.

Useful keybindings

ℹ️ More keybinding can be found here

📦 Step by Step Installation (Working 100% - last tested 16/5/2025)

Pre-install notices

• Those installation steps are not fully verified and you might stuck at any step, if you're having problem, feel free to message me on my discord.
• This dotfiles and it's previews are in 2560x1600 resolution, everything might look bigger on lower resolution.
• Those installation steps won't break your windows, in case things didn't go well, all you need to do are:
  • winget uninstall ... all packages you have installed through install-packages.ps1
  • Remove added task scheduler tasks
  • Remove added config files in ~/.config
• If you have just fresh install windows 11, you need to go to Microsoft Store and update your "App Installer". Otherwise winget will not working.
• For those who use another windows 11 version (like IOT Enterprise LTSC, which doesn't come with Microsoft Store):
  • First download the latest version of winget: https://aka.ms/getwinget
  • Then open Powershell and run: Add-AppxPackage -Path <path to downloaded .msixbundle> to install winget

Install Fonts

Font need to be download and install manually (Windows is planning to allows installing fonts from winget. Stay tune!):

• Pixelcraft Nerd Font (please download and use Nerd Font version)
• Pixel Code
• Monofur Nerd Font

Install chezmoi and apply dotfiles

• Install chezmoi from Winget with: winget install chezmoi
• Close and reopen terminal for chezmoi command to be recognized.
• Initialize chezmoi and apply the dotfiles with: chezmoi init --apply jade-tam
• If you are using Windows Terminal, you will notice the terminal theme changed immediately.

Install packages

• After chezmoi apply the dotfiles, the chezmoi source folder could be found in %userprofile%/.local/share/chezmoi, install-packages.ps1 file can be found inside scripts folder (⚠️Note: Windows Terminal is now default open zsh shell which we haven't installed yet so it will show error if you try to open Windows Terminal, let's open Windows Powershell instead)
• Enable allow execute powershell script in windows settings:
• Edit install-packages.ps1, comment out packages/apps that are not needed (All non-required packages are commented by default)
• ⚠️ Note: If glazewm or zebar already installed, please uninstall them first before running the install script, this will make sure the versions are correct.
• Run install-packages.ps1 script with Powershell to install nessesary packages (⚠️ Note: sometime installation could fail, re-run the script to ensure all packages has been installed)

Add New Environment Variables

• Add %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin to Path variable (This is needed for some utilities like btop, colorscript and winfetch to be recognize):
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Restart

• After everything above are done, restart the PC one time to make sure all new program paths and fonts are registered.

🚩 Continue below after MSYS2 has been installed through install-packages.ps1 and you have restarted the pc

Change MSYS2 home directory

Edit the "db_home"'s value to "windows" of file /c/msys64/etc/nsswitch.conf (file nsswitch.conf inside C:\msys64\etc)

db_home: windows

This will set windows user folder as default home directory. Otherwise zsh won't see it config file from user's directory.

Install Zsh

Open MSYS2 UCRT64 and run below command to install zsh (Tips: command can be pasted using middle mouse button)

# Update pacman
pacman -Syu

# Open MSYS2 Ucrt64 and install ZSH
pacman -S zsh

Open Powershell, from your user folder (Example: C:\Users\JadeTam>), run below command to install zsh themes and configs

# Install Theme: Powerlevel10k

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ./.config/zsh/themes/powerlevel10k

# Install Fast Syntax Highlighting Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting ./.config/zsh/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting

# Install Autosuggestions Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ./.config/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

# Install History Substring Search Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search ./.config/zsh/plugins/zsh-history-substring-search

Troubleshoot: If git is not recognizable, try close and reopen powershell or check whether git is installed through running install-packages.ps1 or not.

Install VS Code Extensions for Theming

• Icons: Material Icon Theme - best icon pack in my opinion
• Themes:
  • Tinted VSCode - using by other themes
  • Gruvbox Theme - using by Wasabi theme
• ADDITIONAL:
  • To change vscode UI Font, use this extension: Fonted
  • To make VSCode window transparent: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=s-nlf-fh.glassit

Auto start GlazeWM & Zebar at windows start

• Just need to copy the GlazeWM shortcut.
• Open Start Up folder by pressing Windows + R and type in shell:startup
• Paste the shortcut in here and we are done, you can also run GlazeWM now.
• Zebar is open and close with GlazeWM.

Optional Tweaks

• Enable automatically hide the taskbar (for more vertical space).
• Improve performance and reduce disk utilization for system with high amount of free RAM:
  • Run scripts/high-ram-tuning.ps1 with Powershell.
• Restore old context menu (Require restart):
  • Open/Run scripts/Restore-old-context-menu.reg. <!---
• Fix terminal cursor glitching while typing: (This is only working with Alacritty, current version using Windows Terminal)
  • Run scripts/terminal-cursor-fix.sh
  • Close then re-open terminal -->
• Show 'Max cpu freq' in power plan setting, allow changing maximum cpu freqency to attempt lower temperature and more stable machine (Very useful, highly recommend for laptop):
  • Run scripts/show-cpu-frequency-power-plan-setting.ps1 with Powershell
  • Search for "Edit Power Plan" > Change Plan Settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor frequency (Showing after running the script, change this to preferred frequency)

Other information

• Dotfiles inspired by gh0stzk dotfiles: https://github.com/gh0stzk/dotfiles
• Food script by Xero: https://github.com/xero/dotfiles