Alpine with Gnome and Dracula theme - Quickstart

A quickstart guide about customizing vanilla Gnome

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Quickstart

1. Installing Base Alpine
   1. Download Alpine Standard: https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/
   2. Run setup-alpine
   3. Follow the steps provided by the script
   4. Make sure you selected the right hard drive to run sys installation
   5. Reboot the system after done (remove the installation media)
2. Installing Gnome
   1. Login with your user
   2. Run doas apk update
   3. Run doas apk add nano
   4. Run doas nano /etc/apk/repositories
   5. Remove the # on community repository line
   6. Run doas apk update again
   7. Run setup-desktop and type gnome
   8. Reboot the system after done
3. Installing Dracula
   1. Follow the steps on https://draculatheme.com/gtk
   2. On Gnome Extensions enable User Themes
   3. Make sure it's all set on Gnome Tweaks
   4. Copy the folder ~/.thems/Dracula/gtk-4.0 into ~/.config (delete the folder if exists)
   5. Copy the contenst in the folder ~/.themes/Dracula/gnome-shell/v40 outside it (replace all files)
4. Nices to do
   1. Installing pipewire
      1. Alpine Gnome comes with pulseaudio, to disable it make the file ~/.pulse/client.conf with autospawn = no to disable it
      2. Run doas apk add wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse
      3. Logout or reboot
   2. Flatpak
      1. Run doas apk add flatpak
      2. Run flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
      3. Reboot
      4. Install Flatseal
      5. On Flatseal global configs make sure:
         1. You have the permissions to:
            1. User themes: ~/.themes:ro
            2. User icons and cursors: ~/.icons:ro
         2. You have the env variables:
            1. User theme: GTK_THEME=Theme-Name
            2. User icons theme: GTK_ICONS=Icon-Theme-Name
            3. User cursor theme: XCURSOR_THEME=Cursor-Theme-Name
      6. Install Wezterm (awesome terminal with dracula theme)
         1. Make a file named .wezterm.lua with the contents bellow:

Wezterm Dracula Gradient Theme Config

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

local config = {}

if wezterm.config_builder then
  config = wezterm.config_builder()
end

config.color_scheme = 'Dracula (Official)'

config.window_background_opacity = 0.88

config.window_decorations = "INTEGRATED_BUTTONS|RESIZE"

config.window_background_gradient = {
  interpolation = 'Linear',

  orientation = 'Vertical',

  blend = 'Rgb',

  colors = {
    '#282a36',
    '#44475a',
  },
}

return config

.Profile

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8