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Phundrak’s dotfiles
- Presentation
- Features
- Installation
- Licence
Presentation
This is my collection of dotfiles for my daily GNU/Linux environment, tweaked to my liking. If you wish to get the same setup as mine, follow the instructions below.
For starters, here is the link to all the pages on my website that you might find interesting. I’ll describe them in more details below.
- Arch Linux bootstrap script
- AwesomeWM configuration
- Custom scripts
- Emacs (Spacemacs) configuration
- Fish shell configuration
- i3 configuration (deprecated)
- Nano configuration (deprecated)
- ncmpcpp configuration (work in progress)
- Neofetch configuration (work in progress)
- Picom configuration (replacement of Compton)
- Polybar configuration (deprecated)
- Rustfmt configuration
- Tmux configuration
As you can see, I personally use fish as my shell of choice, and Emacs 28.0 using Spacemacs (still with Emacs keybinding in insert mode but with Evil in normal mode) as my main text editor.
When it comes to my graphical UI, I do not have any desktop environment. Instead, I have a tiling window manager, Awesome. I used to use i3-gaps, an i3 fork by Airblader, with which I used Polybar as well as pywal to define my system’s color scheme. But now, as said above, I prefer to use Awesome. It has a built-in status bar which I use, and I settled on the dark Nord theme for pretty much everything I use.
Finally, you can find my configuration for my ErgodoxEZ keyboard here. It is optimized for usage with the Bépo layout set as a software layout. It has also a layer set to emulate a Qwerty layout when using the Bépo software layout due to some games that do not offer to remap keys (I’m looking at you, Among Us).
Features
- Emacs configuration perfectly tailored for my own use
- Beautiful and comfy i3 and polybar configuration
- And enough information below to get basically the same distro install as I have on my main computer and my travel laptop.
Most of the org files you will find in this repos are the actual source code of
much of my config files. For instance, the bootstrap found in installation.org
exports almost all of its code snippets to .config/yadm/bootstrap thanks to M-x
org-babel-tangle
from within Emacs. Below I will also present and comment some
of my short config files which do not deserve to have a full org file dedicated
to them.
Tiling Window Managers
AwesomeWM
AwesomeWM is the TWM I use the most on my computer between itself and i3. My configuration for it is documented in detail in its corresponding document, which you can find here.
i3 configuration (Deprecated)
The i3 configuration is detailed in its corresponding README which you can find here. Be aware I do not use i3 anymore, and I will not update it until I may someday use it again. This was deprecated on August 22nd, 2020.
Polybar config (Deprecated)
My annotated polybar config can be found here, if you wish to use it. Be aware I do not use polybar anymore, and I will not update it until I may someday use it again. This was deprecated on August 22nd, 2020.
Theme and graphical tweaks
GTK Settings
GTK2
General configuration
This file is tangled at $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
. This is an equivalent for the GTK3
configuration file you will see below, and it shares most of its settings.
First, let’s select the Nordic theme for GTK2. Let’s also set the icon theme.
# -*- mode: unix-config -*-
gtk-theme-name="Nordic"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Flat-Remix-Dark"
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintslight"
This changes the shortcuts in menu, let’s also make the menus snappier.
gtk-can-change-accels=1
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay=0
gtk-menu-popdown-delay=0
gtk-menu-popup-delay=0
Filechooser
[Filechooser Settings]
The first option alows me to open the file chooser in the current working directory:
StartupMode=cwd
Next, setting the location mode to path-bar
will show the path as buttons that
can be clicked rather than the full path.
LocationMode=path-bar
With this configuration, by default we won’t see hidden files.
ShowHidden=true
And we'll also see the size of the visible files.
ShowSizeColumn=true
Now, let’s choose the geometry of our file picker. These two first lines set where the file picker appears:
GeometryX=566
GeometryY=202
And these two describe the size of the window:
GeometryWidth=800
GeometryHeight=400
With these two lines, we set how our files are sorted: by name, and in the ascending order.
SortColumn=name
SortOrder=ascending
Our default view mode is a list of files:
ViewMode=list-view
And finally, setting our icon view scale to -1
sets the icon view to the max
size.
IconViewScale=-1
GTK3
The following file helps me choosing the aspect of various GTK+ 3 software, including their theme and icons. First, let’s declare the header:
[Settings]
Now, let’s hint to GTK that I prefer dark themes. This can have an influence also on some websites that can detect this preference and therefore set their own theme to dark by themselves.
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
Next, the icon theme is the Flat Remix Dark icon theme:
gtk-icon-theme-name = Flat-Remix-Dark
Now, the general theme for GTK3 is Nordic.
gtk-theme-name = Nordic
gtk-can-change-accels=1
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay=0
gtk-menu-popdown-delay=0
gtk-menu-popup-delay=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintslight
# gtk-xft-rgba=rgb
Since window decorations are handled by my WMs, I will leave this variable empty.
gtk-decoration-layout=
Picom (Compton)
Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, and the successor to Compton, itself successor to xcompmgr-dana, itself a fork of xcompmgr. You can find my Picom configuration here.
Xresources
The main body in my Xresources declaration is the declaration of my color theme. It is based on the Nord theme, from their Git repository.
#define nord0 #2E3440
#define nord1 #3B4252
#define nord2 #434C5E
#define nord3 #4C566A
#define nord4 #D8DEE9
#define nord5 #E5E9F0
#define nord6 #ECEFF4
#define nord7 #8FBCBB
#define nord8 #88C0D0
#define nord9 #81A1C1
#define nord10 #5E81AC
#define nord11 #BF616A
#define nord12 #D08770
#define nord13 #EBCB8B
#define nord14 #A3BE8C
#define nord15 #B48EAD
,*.foreground: nord4
,*.background: nord0
,*.cursorColor: nord4
,*fading: 35
,*fadeColor: nord3
,*.color0: nord1
,*.color1: nord11
,*.color2: nord14
,*.color3: nord13
,*.color4: nord9
,*.color5: nord15
,*.color6: nord8
,*.color7: nord5
,*.color8: nord3
,*.color9: nord11
,*.color10: nord14
,*.color11: nord13
,*.color12: nord9
,*.color13: nord15
,*.color14: nord7
,*.color15: nord6
Text and source code editing
Emacs configuration
Emacs is my main text editor, which I use for almost everything. Because, you know…
Emacs is a great operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.
You can find my Emacs config, based on Spacemacs, in my .spacemacs file, and my user configuration in my emacs.org file.
Nano (deprecated)
Although it is a very simple piece of software, nano does offer some customization. Mine can be found in my nano.org file. Be aware I do not use nano anymore, and I will not update it until I may someday use it again. This was deprecated on August 28th, 2020.
Rustfmt
You can find my Rustfmt configuration here.
Custom scripts in PATH
I have written some scripts that help me daily accomplish some simple tasks, like mounting and unmounting a drive or Android device, an emoji picker, a utility to set up my Wacom tablet, and so on. You can find them stored in my bin.org file along with their detailed explanation in the README placed in the same folder —which is actually their source code once the org-mode file gets tangled.
Terminal configuration
Fish configuration with useful abbreviations
You can also find in my Fish shell configuration in my fish.org file, which contains my usual abbreviations.
Tmux configuration
You can find my tmux configuration in tmux.org. It depends on the submodule .tmux by Gregory Pakosz.
And some minor configuration files
Email signature
This file gets inserted automatically at the end of my emails.
Lucien “Phundrak” Cartier-Tilet
Étudiant en Master Informatique, Tuteur, Université Paris 8
https://phundrak.com (Français)
https://phundrak.com/en (English)
Sent from GNU/Emacs
Global gitignore
Sometimes, there are some lines that always reappear in gitignores. So, instead of always adding them, let git now that some elements are to be ignored by default, hence the ~/.gitignore_global file. First, we don’t want nano’s backup files.
~*
And object files and output binaries generated by gcc
and the likes aren’t
welcome either.
,*.out
,*.o
Paru
paru
is an AUR helper for Arch Linux which aims to be a replacement for yay
.
A couple of the options you will see below aim at restoring the behavior of
yay
in paru
. I also activated the sudo loop so I don’t have to enter my
password if one package takes too much time to compile and/or compress. I know
it can be a security issue if someone ever get access to my computer while paru
is running, but if it ever happens it will be already concerning enough they
managed to. I also make use of my custom script dired so I can use Emacs’ Dired
as the file manager for paru
.
[options]
BottomUp
Devel
DevelSuffixes = -git -cvs -svn -bzr -darcs -always
NewsOnUpgrade
PgpFetch
Provides
RemoveMake
SudoLoop
UpgradeMenu
[bin]
FileManager = dired
Installation
For an installation walkthrough of my Arch Linux installation, check out my installation.org file where I walk you through the first manual steps and through the bootstrap you can execute to automatically take care of a lot of elements.
Licence
All of my dotfiles (and my dotfiles only) are available under the GNU GPLv3 Licence. Please consult /phundrak/config.phundrak.com/src/commit/124644ff3c842821dc2e05dcde49a4e2b84d63c1/org/config/LICENCE.md for more information. In short: you are free to access, edit and redistribute all of my dotfiles under the same licence and as allowed by the licence, and if you fuck up something, it’s your own responsibility.