---
title: "My Qtile Rice"
date: 2025-09-17
author: "Zakky"
tags: ["qtile", "rice", "linux", "dotfiles", "nord"]
---

![My Qtile Rice](/img/community/zakky/qtile.png)

## 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
```

3) Cd into the cloned repo

```
sudo mv qtile ~/.config
```

4) Now you are pretty much done! Just do a Shift+R to reload the qtile config and you are done. Enjoy!

## Links
- Dotfiles: https://github.com/zakky20/qtiledots
- Qtile Website: https://qtile.org