stensipma / .dotfiles

My system configuration files

Introduction

This repository contains some of my main configuration files / dotfiles. The handlig is based on the following blog post about managing dotfiles with a git bare repository

Overview

Here is an overview of the most notable configurations in this repository (the applications + file locations):

• NeoVim - Highly extensible text editor. Config files .config/nvim/. A specific NeoVim readme can be found there.
• XMonad - Tiling window manager written (& configurable) in Haskell. Files in .xmonad/
• xmobar - Status bar used in combination with XMonad. Files in .config/xmobar/
• Kitty - Kitty terminal, I mainly use it for fancy Ligatures 😄. Files in .config/kitty
• (OLD) st - Simple Terminal, suckless software, so there is a separate repository dedicated to my version of st.
• Rofi - Application Launch (much more than that, but that is my main use). Files in .config/rofi
• Shell configuration files are the .profile (run at login), and the .bashrc (run at bash startup (i.e. terminal start))
• Some other configuration options shared for X applications are found in .Xresources

Installation

Installation files are found under bin/install/.

Repository

Because the repository is managed as a bare repository, it is convenient to use an alias to manage all the files. Here, we use dgit as the alias and the folder $HOME/.dotfiles in which the bare repository resides.

alias dgit='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Check for conflicting files with:

dgit checkout

And back them up in a new directory. Potentially, you need to create sub-directories:

mkdir .dotfiles-backup
dgit checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .dotfiles-backup/{}

Only show tracked files:

dgit config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

NeoVim

• Install Plug.Vim (see init.vim)

sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

And then, open neovim and run :PlugInstall

• Make a python virtual environment for neovim:

mkdir -p $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pyvirtualenvs
python3 -m venv $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pyvirtualenvs/neovim
source $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pyvirtualenvs/neovim/bin/activate
pip install pynvim
deactivate

Shell

• Set the shell to Zsh

# list available shells
chsh -l
# select the Zsh one (the following is likely good)
chsh -s /bin/zsh

• Install plugins for syntax highlighting and autosuggestions

sudo pacman -S zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions

• Install completions (zsh and bash)

pacman -S zsh-completions bash-completion

• Install Zsh syntax highlighting

pacman -S zsh-syntax-highlighting

• Install the prompt with:

git clone [email protected]:StenSipma/myprompt.git
cd myprompt
cargo install --path .
cd ..
rm -r myprompt

Git

• Let git know who you are

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

• delta (install via git-delta) It is a better diff viewer for git (or in general)

Fonts

• FiraCode & Hasklig

paru -S otf-hasklig nerd-fonts-fira-code

Xorg

Add the following to ~/.xinitrc

# Run local xinitrc commands and programs
if [ -d ~/.config/xinitrc.d ] ; then
	# Commands for all machines, files start with all-[name].sh
	for f in ~/.config/xinitrc.d/all-?*.sh; do
		[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
	done

	# Commands specific to this machine, files start with [hostname]-[name].sh
	for f in ~/.config/xinitrc.d/$(cat /etc/hostname)-?*.sh; do
		[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
	done

	unset f
fi

# Start the XMonad window manager
exec xmonad

XMonad

• Stalonetray ?

Pacman Update List

Use the files in $HOME/.config/timers/pacman-index-update Link to the correct location (under /usr/lib/systemd/system/)

sudo ln -s $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/timers/pacman-index-update/pacman-index-update.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/pacman-index-update.service
sudo ln -s $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/timers/pacman-index-update/pacman-index-update.timer   /usr/lib/systemd/system/pacman-index-update.timer

Then enable them:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now pacman-index-update.timer

TODO

• .

Dependencies

(and a LOT more!!)

• neovim-nightly
• xmonad xmonad-contrib
• xmobar rofi
• kitty
• exa ripgrep fd bat