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Phundrak’s dotfiles
- Presentation
- Features
- Screenshots
- Dependencies
- Installation
- Install Arch Linux
- Install basic packages
- Execute bootstrap
- Get a correct keyboard layout
- Set our locale
- Create some folders
- Set user’s shell to fish
- Install
yay
if it isn’t already installed - Setting up Emacs: Installing Spacemacs
- Set up dotfiles
- Install basic packages
- Installing Tryone’s Compton fork
- Enable some of our services
- Set up our fish shell
- Install packages from git
- Install Rust
- Clean the
pacman
andyay
cache
- 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.
As you can see, I personally use fish as my shell of choice, and Emacs using Spacemacs (still with Emacs keybinding) as my main text editor.
I also use Resloved’s fork of i3-gaps with two polybar bars and Tryone144’s fork of Compton. The colors scheme for rofi, Emacs and polybar are chosen from the wallpapers using pywal.
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.
Screenshots
![/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/neofetch.png](/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/neofetch.png)
![/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/emacs.png](/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/emacs.png)
![/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/rofi.png](/phundrak/config.phundrak.com/media/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/img/rofi.png)
Dependencies
Of course, some dependencies are needed for my dotfiles to work well. Here is a non-exhaustive list of software needed by these configuration files:
-
GNU/Emacs >= 26.2
- Spacemacs (develop branch)
- My conlanging layer
- Venmos’ w3m layer
- The Fish shell, using fisher
- Luke Smith’s fork of st
- Resloved’s i3-gaps-rounded fork of Airblader’s i3-gaps, itself a fork of i3
- Compton, more specificaly Tryone’s fork
- pywal
- dmenu
- j4-dmenu-desktop
- Rofi
- minted
- Rust (stable and nightly)
- LaTeX and XeTeX (
texlive
packages on Arch Linux) - tmux, based on this repo’s configuration by Grégory Pakosz.
- And a bunch of other stuff, see below
And some other stuff scattered around in my dotfiles.
BTW, I use Arch.
Installation
Here will be presented what I do to get my system up and running on a fresh Arch Linux install. These installation instructions were written in order to get an Arch Linux distribution up and running with the same configuration as my main computer’s and my travelling laptop’s configuration.
Install Arch Linux
I usually install Arch from the vanilla ISO, however I began using archfi to
install easily the distro (I’ve done it so many times, I know how it works
now). Usually, my distros will be installed on at least two partitions, one
dedicated to /home
, the other to the root partition /
.
If the computer supports EFI bootloaders, the EFI partition will be mounted
on /boot
. I generally use rEFInd as my boot manager, but if you are more
comfortable with another one, just install what you want. Be aware that if
you format your /boot
partition, you will delete all boot managers that
already exist; so, if you are dual-booting, DO NOT FORMAT IT. Yes, I made
the mistake of wiping the Windows boot manager.
The swap partition is always at least 4GB large, and I should have a total of 12GB of combined RAM and swap. This means on my main computer I have 16GB of RAM and 4GB of swap, but on my thinkpad I have 4GB of RAM and 8GB of swap.
Get the latest live system with fast mirrors
When you boot into the live ISO, execute the following command:
pacman -Sy reflector
reflector --country France --country Germany --latest 200 \
--protocol http --protocol https --sort rate \
--save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
This will update the packages from your live ISO, and you will get the best mirrors for your installation. Of course, change the countries accordingly to your location.
Install the system
Then you can use a custom script to ease your installation of Arch if you do not wish to do it manually. Personally, I’ve done it several times already, I know how the distro works, I just want to be able to install my distro quickly now.
wget archfi.sf.net/archfi
# Or from matmoul.github.io/archfi if SourceForge is down
sh archfi
Then, follow the instructions and install Arch Linux. Take the opportunity
to install as many packages as you need, mainly yay
which I use as my
package manager (it is just a wrapper for pacman
) and AUR helper, and
pacman-contrib
which will help us installing some packages later.
Once your system is installed, reboot and remove your installation media from your computer.
Install basic packages
We will need some basic packages in order to run the bootstrap file. So,
let’s install fish
(our shell running the script) and git
.
sudo pacman -Sy fish git yadm
Execute bootstrap
yadm
comes with a very handy feature: its bootstrap script. We can
execute it by running the following command:
yadm bootstrap
Notice these two header files, we can see this is a fish script, hence why we need fish (which is my daily shell anyway).
#!/usr/bin/fish
# -*- mode: fish -*-
Let’s take a look at what it does.
Get a correct keyboard layout
I use mainly the bépo layout, a French keyboard layout inspired by Dvorak layouts, however I sometimes need to switch back to the standard French AZERTY or the American QWERTY layout, so I make it so the Menu key switches for me my layout between these three. This makes it so my xorg configuration of my keyboard looks like this:
set keyboardconf \
'Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr,fr,us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbVariant" "bepo,,"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_toggle"
EndSection'
So, let’s set it as our keyboard configuration.
printf "\n# Set keyboard layout #########################################################\n\n"
echo $keyboardconf | sudo tee /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
Set our locale
I use two main locales, the French and US UTF-8 locales, and I like to keep the Japanese locale activated just in case.
set mylocales "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" "fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8" "ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8"
Let’s enable these.
printf "\n# Set our locale ##############################################################\n\n"
for item in $mylocales
if test (grep -e "#$item" /etc/locale.gen)
sudo sed -i "/$item/s/^#//g" /etc/locale.gen
end
end
This is my configuration I usually use when it comes to my locale.
set localeconf "LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_NAME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8"
Let’s set it as our system’s locale.
echo $localeconf | sudo tee /etc/locale.conf
Now we can generate our locale!
printf "\n# Generate locale #############################################################\n\n"
sudo locale-gen
Create some folders
Let’s create some folders we might need for mounting our drives, Android devices and CDs.
printf "\n# Create directories for mounting #############################################\n\n"
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/{USB,CD,Android}
sudo chown $USER:(id -g $USER) /mnt/{USB,CD,Android}
Set user’s shell to fish
First of all, the bootstrap shell will set the user’s shell to fish.
printf "\n# Set fish as the default shell ###############################################\n\n"
chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
Install yay
if it isn’t already installed
Now we’ll need to be sure yay
, our AUR helper, is installed on our system.
If it is, we don’t need to to anything. However, if it isn’t, we’ll install
it manually.
if ! test which yay
printf "\n# Installing yay ##############################################################\n\n"
cd
mkdir -p fromGIT
cd fromGIT
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si --noconfirm
else
printf "\n# yay already installed #######################################################\n\n"
end
Setting up Emacs: Installing Spacemacs
Now, the first thing we want to do with Emacs is install its Spacemacs
distribution. We’ll clone its develop
branch into ~/.emacs.d
. We need to
do this prior to our dotfiles’ cloning because of some submodules that are
cloned within our ~/.emacs.d
directory, and git won’t let us clone
Spacemacs in an already existing and non-empty directory. To make sure it
isn’t one, let’s delete any potentially existing ~/.emacs.d
directory:
printf "\n# Installing Spacemacs ########################################################\n\n"
rm -rf ~/.emacs.d
Now we can clone Spacemacs:
git clone --single-branch --branch develop https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
And we can restore what might have been deleted in our ~/.emacs.d/private
directory:
yadm checkout -- ~/.emacs.d/private/
Set up dotfiles
Update our dotfiles’ remotes
This line in the bootstrap script will test if the current user is using my username. If yes, it’s probably me.
if ! test (echo "phundrak" | sed -e "s/^.*$USER//I")
If it is me installing and using these dotfiles, I want the remotes of my dotfiles to be set to ssh remotes using my ssh keys.
printf "\n# Update yadm’s remotes #######################################################\n\n"
yadm remote set-url origin git@labs.phundrak.fr:phundrak/dotfiles.git
yadm remote add github git@github.com:phundrak/dotfiles.git
I will also want to decrypt my encrypted files, such as said ssh keys.
printf "\n# Decrypt encrypted dotfiles ##################################################\n\n"
yadm decrypt
Finally, let’s close this if
statement.
end
Get envtpl
Before we set our dotfiles up, let’s make sure envtpl
is correctly
installed. This package will be needed for generating our alt dotfiles.
printf '\n# Install envtpl ##############################################################\n\n'
yay -Syu python-envtpl-git
Update our submodules
Now we can download the various dependencies of our dotfiles. To do so, let’s run the following command:
printf "\n# Getting yadm susbmodules ####################################################\n\n"
yadm submodule update --init --recursive
Generate our alt files
Now this should be the last manipulation on our dotfiles: let’s create our alternate files:
printf "\n# Generating alt files ########################################################\n\n"
yadm alt
Symlink some system config files
We have some files in etc/ that are to be symlinked to /etc
.
for f in (find ~/etc -type f)
set dest (echo $f | sed -n 's/^.*etc\(.*\)$/\/etc\1/p')
sudo ln -s $f $dest
end
We may also want to symlink our nanorc to the /root
directory for when we
use nano
as sudo
.
read --prompt "echo 'Symlink .nanorc to root’s .nanorc? (Y/n): ' " -l nanoroot
if test $nanoroot = 'y' || test $nanoroot = "Y" || test $nanoroot = ''
printf "\n# Symlinking .nanorc to root’s .nanorc ########################################\n\n"
sudo ln -s $HOME/.nanorc /root/.nanorc
end
Install basic packages
Let’s set in a custom varible what packages we’ll be needing.
set PACKAGES \
asar ascii aspell-en aspell-fr assimp awesome-terminal-fonts base-devel bat \
biber bleachbit bluez-firmware bluez-utils bookworm boost bzip2 chromium clisp \
compton cppcheck cppreference cppreference-devhelp cpupower cronie cryptsetup \
device-mapper diffutils discord-canary discount ditaa dmenu dmenu-lpass docker \
docker-compose doxygen dunst dwarffortress emacs exfat-utils ffmpegthumbnailer \
findutils firefox flake8 font-mathematica fontforge freeglut fzf gcc-libs gdb \
gimp glibc gnome-disk-utility gnome-epub-thumbnailer gnu-free-fonts gnuplot \
go-tools graphviz htop i3-gaps i3lock-blur i3status igdm-bin inetutils \
j4-dmenu-desktop jfsutils jmtpfs lastpass-cli less linux-headers lldb \
logrotate lvm2 ly-git meson minted mpc mpd mpd-rich-presence-discord-git mpv \
mupdf-tools nano ncdu ncmpcpp nemo-fileroller nemo-preview neofetch netctl \
networkmanager networkmanager-openvpn nm-connection-editor nnn nomacs \
noto-fonts-emoji npm ntfs-3g numlockx openssh p7zip pacman-contrib pandoc-bin \
pavucontrol pciutils pcurses pdfpc polybar pulseaudio-bluetooth \
python-envtpl-git python-pip python-pywal qemu r raw-thumbnailer redshift \
reflector rofi rofi-wifi-menu-git rsync rtv rustup s-nail samba scrot sent \
shadow siji-git simplescreenrecorder speedcrunch sshfs st-luke-git \
texlive-bibtexextra texlive-bin texlive-core texlive-fontsextra \
texlive-formatsextra texlive-games texlive-humanities texlive-langchinese \
texlive-langcyrillic texlive-langextra texlive-langgreek texlive-langjapanese \
texlive-langkorean texlive-latexextra texlive-localmanager-git texlive-music \
texlive-pictures texlive-pstricks texlive-publishers texlive-science tmux tree \
ttf-arphic-uming ttf-baekmuk ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu \
ttf-google-fonts-opinionated-git ttf-joypixels ttf-liberation \
ttf-material-design-icons-git ttf-ms-fonts ttf-symbola ttf-tibetan-machine \
ttf-twemoji-color ttf-unifont unicode unicode-emoji unrar usbutils valgrind \
vim w3m wget x11-ssh-askpass xclip xdg-user-dirs-gtk xorg-drivers xorg-apps \
xfsprogs xorg-server xorg-xinit xss-lock yapf
These are the minimum I would have in my own installation. You can edit it however you want. Let’s install those.
printf "\n# Installing needed packages ##################################################\n\n"
yay -S --needed $PACKAGES
Installing Tryone’s Compton fork
For some reason, I found installing directly this fork does not work, and I
need to install it after I installed the regular compton packages.
compton-tryone-git
will replace compton
which will be removed.
printf "\n# Installing tryone’s compton fork ############################################\n\n"
yay -S compton-tryone-git
Enable some of our services
We have installed some packages which require some services to run. Let’s enable them.
Docker
First, let’s activate Docker.
printf "\n# Enabling and starting Docker ################################################\n\n"
sudo systemctl enable --now docker
Now, if we wish it, we can be added to the docker
group so we won’t have
to type sudo
each time we call Docker or Docker Compose.
read --prompt "echo 'Do you wish to be added to the `docker` group? (Y/n): ' " -l adddockergroup
if test $adddockergroup = 'y' || test $adddockergroup = "Y" || test $adddockergroup = ''
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
end
Emacs
Emacs will run as a user service, which means it won’t be launched until we log in.
printf "\n# Enabling Emacs as user service ##############################################\n\n"
systemctl --user enable --now emacs
SSH server
Maybe we want to activate an SSH server on our machine. If so, we can enable it. Let’s ask the question.
read --prompt "echo 'Do you want to activate the ssh server? (Y/n): ' " -l sshdserver
if test $sshdserver = 'y' || test $sshdserver = "Y" || test $sshdserver = ''
printf "\n# Enabling ssh server #########################################################\n\n"
sudo systemctl enable --now sshd
end
Ly
Ly is a display manager based on ncurses which I find nice enough for me to use (I generally don’t like using display managers). Let’s enable it, and let’s disable tty2 while we’re at it (Ly uses it to run X).
sudo systemctl enable --now ly
sudo systemctl disable getty@tty2
Set up our fish shell
Install fisher
We will be using fisher
as our extensions manager for Fish. Let’s install
it.
printf "\n# Installing fisher ###########################################################\n\n"
curl https://git.io/fisher --create-dirs -sLo ~/.config/fish/functions/fisher.fish
Install our extensions
I generally use the following extensions in my Fish shell.
set FISHEXTENSIONS \
edc/bass franciscolourenco/done jethrokuan/fzf jethrokuan/z \
jorgebucaran/fish-getopts laughedelic/pisces matchai/spacefish \
tuvistavie/fish-ssh-agent
Let’s install these:
fisher add $FISHEXTENSIONS
Install packages from git
Now, let’s install some packages from git directly.
i3-gaps rounded
I know we already installed i3-gaps
from the AUR, why reinstall it? Well,
that is certainly bad practices, but this allowed me to already have the
needed dependencies for building i3
installed. Now, let’s clone it, build
it, and install it. Doing this is probably very bad practices though, be
warned.
printf "\n# Install i3-gaps-rounded #####################################################\n\n"
cd ~/fromGIT
git clone https://github.com/resloved/i3.git i3-gaps-rounded
cd i3-gaps-rounded
rm -rf build
autoreconf --force --install
mkdir build && cd build
../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-sanitizers
make -j
sudo make install
Polybar Battery
Now let’s install polybar-battery
. This is a binary that I’ll use in my
i3 config to indicate my battery level. It also sends a notification on low
battery and on charging completed.
printf "\n# Install polybar-battery #####################################################\n\n"
cd ~/fromGIT
git clone https://github.com/drdeimos/polybar_another_battery.git
cd polybar_another_battery
go get -u github.com/distatus/battery/cmd/battery
make build
Now, we have our binary, let’s symlink it in our local binary directory,
~/.local/bin
.
ln -s polybar-ab ~/.local/bin/polybar-ab
Reveal.JS
I sometimes use Reveal.JS to make presentations, and I set its location in
my dotspacemacs file to be in ~/fromGIT
, so let’s clone it there.
printf "\n# Install Reveal.JS ###########################################################\n\n"
cd ~/fromGIT
git clone https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js.git
Install Rust
Install the toolchains
When using rust, I bounce between two toolchains, the stable
toolchain
and the nightly
toolchain. To install them, I will use rustup
which has
already been installed.
printf "\n# Install the rust toolchains, nightly is the default one #####################\n\n"
rustup default nightly
This will both download the nightly toolchain and set it as the default one. Yup, I like to live dangerously. Now to install the stable toolchain, let’s run this:
rustup toolchain install stable
Install some utilities
We’ll need some utilities when developing Rust from Emacs, namely rustfmt
and racer
. Let’s install them with cargo
.
printf "\n# Add rust utilities ##########################################################\n\n"
cargo install rustfmt racer
Clean the pacman
and yay
cache
Finally, we are almost done! Let’s clean the cache of pacman
and yay
.
printf "\n# Clean the pacman and yay cache ##############################################\n\n"
yay -Sc --noconfirm
You should now run a system pretty close to the one I have on my main computer and my thinkpad.
Licence
All of my dotfiles (and my dotfiles only) are available under the GNU GPLv3 Licence. Please consult /phundrak/config.phundrak.com/src/commit/47719bfec1d3a39d038f6e795923dd9a8040c76f/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.