dotfiles

• This is a store for the various configuration files that I use, across the machines that I work on.

OS setups

Arch setup

• Window manager: wayland (hyprland) + waybar / dwm + dwmblocks
• zsh
• (neo)vim + vim-plug
• Launcher: rofi

Xubuntu setup

• Window manager: dwm + dwmblocks
• zsh
• (neo)vim + vim-plug
• Launcher: dmenu

Installation

• Clone repo to ~/dotfiles, then follow system specific instructions below

Arch

My main/daily driver

• On top of a base arch install
• Installation with gnu stow
• For home, clone repo to ~/dotfiles then:

cd ~/dotfiles
source install_scripts/install_arch.sh
cd setups
stow --no-folding arch --target=$HOME
stow --no-folding common --target=$HOME

• Then reboot

Annoyances

• Have to enable many systemd services manually (non-exhaustive list)
  • network manager
  • cron
  • bluetooth
  • lightdm/sddm
  • ssh agent
• sddm/lightdm themes need to be installed system- not user-wide

Xubuntu

Used for years before switching to arch as main, I still maintain legacy configs for now

• Installation with gnu stow
• For home, clone repo to ~/dotfiles then:

cd ~/dotfiles
source install_scripts/install_xubuntu.sh
cd setups
stow --no-folding xubuntu --target=$HOME
stow --no-folding common --target=$HOME

Deprecated setups

These are setups that I no longer use, the tag with these setups still in use is before_removing_legacy_configs

mac

• Installation with gnu stow

# Install homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
cd ~/dotfiles
cat packages/cask.txt packages/leaves.txt | xargs brew install
stow --no-folding mac

lxplus

• Clone repo to ~/dotfiles, then:

cd ~/dotfiles
source install_scripts/install_lxplus.sh

Manchester

• Clone repo to ~/dotfiles, then:

cd ~/dotfiles
source install_scripts/install_manchester.sh

For Manchester, to do anything useful with git, be sure to do

setupATLAS
lsetup git

on a machine with cvmfs available. The default git version that is installed on these machines (1.7.1) is way too old (yes it is completely ridiculous that this is required)