This repository contains all of my dotfiles configuration.

These dotfiles allow me to make my daily life easier by saving me time and easily meeting my needs.

I try to keep these dotfiles tidy and up to date. I invite you to take a look at it to get different ideas for your dotfiles and why not leave comments, suggestions, questions and bug reports if something seems odd to you.

Finally, this repository has wiki pages to better understand some of the choices I have made and allow me to answer any questions you may have have about these dotfiles. Feel free to visit them ☺

List of files:

 alacritty ➔ cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator bash ➔ bash settings, aliases, and custom prompts bin ➔ various useful scripts (e.g. borg, rofi, etc.) compton ➔ compositor for X11 dunst ➔ lightweight replacement for the notification-daemons git ➔ global git config and aliases gnupg ➔ allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communication htop ➔ interactive process viewer i3 ➔ dynamic tiling window manager for X11 inspired by wmii isync ➔ capable of synchronizing mail on IMAP server with local Maildir folder mpd ➔ music player daemon mpv ➔ media player based on MPlayer and the now unmaintained mplayer2 ncmpcpp ➔ mpd client neofetch ➔ CLI system information tool newsboat ➔ RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals polybar ➔ status bars python ➔ specific to Python qutebrowser ➔ keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI rofi ➔ window switcher, application launcher, ssh dialog and dmenu replacement sh ➔ common to all shells (e.g. aliases, environment variables, etc.) ssh ➔ SSH settings sway ➔ i3-compatible Wayland compositor systemd ➔ systemd units tmux ➔ terminal multiplexer waybar ➔ Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors x11 ➔ X11 settings zsh ➔ zshell settings, aliases, and custom prompts 

NOTE: it is still possible to access my old dotfiles that I no longer use, in case they can help you.

I structured my dotfiles so that the user's home is as clean as possible in accordance with the XDG base directory specification.

In other words, this means that the following environment variables are defined:

NOTE: XDG_BIN_HOME and XDG_LIB_HOME are non-standard.

A non-exhaustive preview of the environment I use on a daily basis:

Last Updated: 14 September 2019.

NOTE: you can find my wallpapers here.

I'm using GNU Stow a free, lightweight dotfiles manager written in Perl to manages my dotfiles.

What's make differentiates it from other dotfiles managers is that it does not require various Python, Ruby or Perl dependencies like most dotfiles manager.

With that, it is easy to share files among multiple users or computers with a few command lines.

No matter what your Linux distribution, stow can easily be installed according to your package manager:

sudo pacman -S stow sudo apt-get install stow 

For macOS users:

brew install stow 

Once the installation is complete, make a clone of the repository:

git clone https://github.com/rememberYou/dotfiles.git 

You can now install any configurations you wish to copy using GNU Stow:

# Make sure you are in the right directory cd dotfiles # Example to install the sway config stow sway # Uninstall the sway config stow -D sway

If you want to install all the configurations, you can do it directly with stowsym.sh:

# Change permission to execute the script chmod +x stowsym.sh # Installation of configuration files ./stowsym.sh -i # Deleting of configuration files ./stowsym.sh -d

Easy, isn't it? For those who want to find my GNU Emacs configuration files, they are available: here.

For the configuration of zsh and bash, you will need to create two symbolic aliases:

ln -s ~/.config/bash/.bashrc ~ ln -s ~/.config/zsh/.zshenv ~

The reasons for this are that bash and zsh do not allow the possibility to follow the specifications of the XDG base directory.

NOTE: the .zshrc file (resp. .bashrc) cannot be renamed to zshrc (resp. bashrc) except for a few system manipulations, which is not what I recommend.

Various functions may be optimized or spelling errors may occur. If you want to make your own correction on these dotfiles, you are free to do so.

Please note that I can't guarantee that your changes will be accepted.

The code is unlicensed, take what you like.