dotfiles

My dotfiles for Void Linux

Installation

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robert5800/dotfiles/main/autoinstall.sh
chmod +x autoinstall.sh && ./autoinstall.sh

Note: this only works on Debian based distributions

Requirements

• i3-gaps
• Cozette (for displaying glyphs)
• GNU Unifont (Terminus is a great alternative)
• Iosevka

Useful packages

apt install i3 fonts-font-awesome pulseaudio pavucontrol brightnessctl scrot rxvt-unicode nitrogen

How to maintain dotfiles

A simple yet effective way to manage dotfiles in git is by using a git bare repository

Initializing the repo

1. Create a git bare repository in a new (preferably hidden) folder, such as ~/.cfg or ~/.config/dotfiles. git init --bare $HOME/.config/dotfiles
2. Make an alias in your shell's configuration file (such as .bashrc) that you will use to interact with your dotfiles. alias gitdf='git --git-dir=$HOME/.config/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
3. Using the newly created alias (refresh your shell first) set a flag that makes not explicitly tracked files to not show up when you type gitdf status (you probably dont want to track every single file in your home directory). gitdf config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Workflow

To start tracking your config files:

1. Check the status of the git repo gitdf status
2. Add all the config files you want to track (e.g. gitdf add .bashrc)
3. Commit the changes gitdf commit -m "Update .bashrc"
4. Create a github repo named 'dotfiles' (or whatever you want, really) and connect the local repo to it gitdf remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/dotfiles
5. When you are done, push the changes gitdf push. The changes should now be visible on github.