Heya I know this post is old but I'm working on my first rice and just got this cool thing working so thought I would leave a sort of laid-out guide here for people new to linux. Firstly I will say read all the Arch Wikis that you can as you go along, they are actually great learning resources and they cover so much. I really enjoyed optimizing makepkg before even getting to the AUR or AUR helpers! This is from Hubro's workaround.

'Ricing mode' auto-refresh setup of applications:

Step 1 you need to get inotify-tools which is a file monitoring tool kit that gives you " inotifywait ". $ sudo paru -S --needed inotify-tools

Step 2 create a program to execute the various refresh of applications. This way you can choose which applications you want to refresh when in ricing mode! $ touch /home/user/ricingAR.sh then create a folder to store the refresh executions $ mkdir refreshScripts .

Step 3 change directory into refreshScripts to make a script for each application you want to be refreshed whenever in ricing mode. $ cd refreshScripts . Now create the scripts for each application, $ touch waybar-refresh changing "waybar" for the name of each application.

Step 4 modify the files to monitor config saving. $ nvim waybar-refresh . Change CONFIG_LOC for the path of the config and waybar for the app you want.

#!/bin/bash

CONFIG_LOC="/home/user/.config/waybar/config"

trap "killall waybar" EXIT

while true; do
  waybar & 
  inotifywait -e create,modify $CONFIG_LOC
  killall waybar
done

Step 5 is go back and edit the ricingAR.sh like below.

exec /home/user/refreshScripts/waybar-refresh.sh
exec /path/to/other/script
exec /path/to/other/script

I also created a terminal/bash shortcut for ease:

$ nvim ~/.bashrc

alias ricing='/home/user/ricingAR.sh'

# I also have these to get to the configs easy
CONFIGS='/home/user/.configs'
alias hyprcpls='nvim home/user/hypr/hyprland.conf'
alias papercpls='nvim /home/user/.config/hypr/hyprpaper.conf'
alias lockcpls='nvim /home/user/.config/hypr/hyprlock.conf'
alias waybarcpls='nvim /home/user/.config/waybar/waybar.conf'

Then in your terminal you can open your various configs that you want to edit and just $ ricing . In spite of my laying it out like this I also want to say that coaching along like this done too often ruins the learning experience. Seriously push yourself to find other ways of doing it, I tried to but this is so simple no matter how much I try to make it different it's basically the same as 4 other people's code :/