Dotfiles

I use arch btw.

I also use neovim, tmux, bspwm, ncmpcpp, neomutt, the list goes on. You can find the config files for all of those in this repository, I use dotter to manage my dotfiles.

Deploying

You'll need a few programs to do an inital minimal deploy. This will set up a usable shell-enviorment.

Before you can get started, you'll need to install git, which should be in the standard repositorys of every distro, and clone my dotfiles repository:

git clone [email protected]:b3nj5m1n/dotfiles.git

Now, you might want to compile the terminfo files:

cd /path/to/dotfiles/files/terminfo
./compile-terminfo.sh

You'll also need rust, more specifically cargo, to install everything you need:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

rustup install stable
rustup default stable

You're now ready to build and install dotter:

cargo install dotter

Pick a profile to deploy or build your own, put it in .dotter as local.toml (For example cp profiles/desktop.toml .dotter/local.toml) You should now be able to do your inital deploy:

sudo dotter deploy --force

Afterwards, you'll need to fix the permissions. Do this for the .config dir, and every file that gives you a permission error when you execute dotter deploy (Without sudo):

sudo chown $USER ~/.config/**

If you run into problems with the cache:

rm -rf .dotter/cache*

From now on, this should work without any errors and in a fraction of a second:

dotter deploy

You'll need the following programs to take full advantage of the configs (All of them are aliased so you can use the normal program names):

• tmux (Terminal multiplexer) (Should be in every distros default repository)
• zsh (Shell) (Should be in every distros default repository)
• starship (Prompt) (cargo install starship)
• zoxide (Better cd) (cargo install zoxide)
• exa (Better ls) (cargo install exa)
• fd (Better find) (cargo install fd-find)
• sd (Better sed) (cargo install sd)
• skim (fzf but rust) (cargo install skim)
• ripgrep (better grep) (cargo install ripgrep)
• procs (better ps) (cargo install procs)
• dust (better du) (cargo install du-dust)
• bottom (better top) (cargo install bottom)
• bat (better cat) (cargo install bat)

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