jessemutz / dotfiles

My Dotfiles & System Setup

Using Chezmoi to handle syncing dotfiles across multiple diverse machines.

Chezmoi Quick Start

You'll need to move any files from /bin to your /usr/local/bin, like tmux-session

sudo ln s /bin/tmux-session /usr/local/bin

Below are tools and software needed to get a new machine up and running.

Tools & Software

• Alacritty (terminal emulator)
• Beekeeper-Studio - Database manager (free version)
• Bitwarden - Password Manager
• Calibre - ebook manager
• Dropbox
• Figma
• Plex
• Spotify
• VLC
• VSCode
• Dropbox
• Todoist
• Joplin - Notes manager
• Clickup
• Google Chrome
• FileZilla
• Firefox
  • Install Gnome Shell Extensions for Linux tools
• Private Internet Access VPN

Command Line Tools

• chezmoi - manage and sync dotfiles
• atuin (very cool shell history sync & search)
• git
• lando (for local Drupal & Wordpress site containers)
• nvm (install via github)
  • after install, run nvm install 14 && nvm install 16 && nvm install 18
• screenfetch
• neovim
• youtube-dl
• zsh

Mac Specific Tools

• Affinity Design, Publisher, Photo (Adobe alternatives)
• Alfred
• Clip Menu
• Disk Inventory X
• homebrew - the only thing you need to manage tools & packages on Mac
• ImageOptim
• Xcode

Linux Specific Tools

• CopyQ - Clipboard Manger
• Gnome Tweak Tool - adjust appearance
• Gnome Extensions
  • Dash to panel
    • Settings saved in chezmoi dash-to-panel-settings.txt
    • Requires manual import
  • Open Weather
  • Time++
  • Ubuntu Appindicators
• input-remapper (to remap mouse keys)
  • sudo apt install input-remapper
• Solaar - LG Mouse to work with Linux better
• Stacer - system monitoring
• update-alternatives - I use to switch PHP versions, but can also be used
  • e.g. sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php8.1

Linux Commands

Install various plugins

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt clean
sudo apt install git\
screenfetch\
plocate\
youtube-dl\
vim\
software-properties-common\
zsh

PHP versions and version switcher

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install php7.4
sudo apt install php7.4-{fpm,json,zip,gd,mbstring,curl,xml,bcmath,dom}
sudo apt install php8.1
sudo apt install php8.1-{fpm,json,zip,gd,mbstring,curl,xml,bcmath,dom}

Stop apache so we can use Lando

sudo systemctl stop apache2
sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable

TMUX

Regular tmux keybindings

% vertical split
" horizontal split
! break pane into new window
c new window


$ rename session
, rename window

o select next pane
{ swap pane with previous
} swap pane with next
n next window
p previous window
) next session
( previous session
; select previously active pane
l select previously active window

s interactive session & window browser
w interactive window browser

: command prompt
d detach
f search text in open windows

[ copy mode
] paste buffer
# list buffers
- delete buffer

VS Code

Extensions should install automatically when signed in with GitHub account, but the extensions I like are:

• Alignment
• Better Align
• Better Comments
• change-case
• Code Spell Checker
• Color Highlight
• Dev Containers
• Docker
• Drupal 8 Snippets
• Drupal 8 Twig Snippets
• Drupal Syntax Highlighting
• Duplicate action
• ESLint
• Even Better TOML
• Figma
• Format Comment
• Git History
• GitHub Themes
• GitLens
• GraphQL
• GraphQL Syntax Highlighting
• HTML CSS Support
• Indented Block Highlighting
• IntelliSense for CSS Class Names in HTML
• isort
• JavaScript Code Snippets
• Liquid
• Live Server
• Material Icon Theme
• Material Theme
• Material Theme Icons
• Multiple Cursor case preserve
• NGINX Configuration
• Night Owl
• One Dark Pro
• Path Intellisense
• PHP Debug
• PHP Intelephense
• PHP Intellisense
• Prettier
• React native Tools
• Remote - SSH
• REST Client
• Sass
• SCSS Formatter
• SCSS IntelliSense
• Sort Lines
• Svelte for VS Code
• TabOut
• TODO Highlight
• Twig