dotfiles/bootstrap
Marty Oehme 6fabac6cd8
kitty: Switch to kitty terminal emulator
Finally made the switch from alacritty to kitty. I have been thinking
about this for a while. Both, fundamentally, serve my purposes just
fine. Both are fast, customizable, gpu accelerated, and so on.
Kitty feels a little faster on the input, but this should not provide
major differences.

One big difference, however, is now very apparent and I can feel it:
Alacritty, on wayland, does not support any picture preview. It does not
support sixel, and things like w3mimg or ueberzug are based on and
require X11 to run.
Kitty brings its own graphics display library and it seems both pretty
stable and fast.
I have not done much more with it than use it in things like vifm image
previews but it should be much more stable than things like ueberzug,
much faster than things like sixel. Time will tell.

Switched other modules to make use of kitty instead of alacritty:
vifm uses kitty previews,
river spawns kitty instances,
systemd units use kitty instances,
waybar presents extra mouse-click interactions through kitty,
and styler contains a processor to style kitty permanently.

I would love to converge this all a bit more on the `$TERMINAL` env var,
but this is unfortunately difficult for things like systemd and waybar.
For waybar I currently see no real way except for a custom
`ideal-terminal` script which just goes down the list of terminal
emulators I want to run, depending on which is installed,
since it does not read env vars,
while for systemd it might be feasible to import user environment
variables,
but also connected to additional complexity and overhead which it does
not seem worth for the currently two simple service units it affects.

Also removed some obsolete sxhkd and sh settings from the move to
wayland.
2022-01-16 15:18:07 +01:00
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.config/sh/alias.d Fix README image paths and dot description 2020-02-11 09:33:18 +00:00
system-packages/etc/keyd bootstrap: Added new keyd keybard configuration 2021-12-04 11:22:25 +01:00
.stow-local-ignore Switch to wayland 2021-11-30 22:30:07 +01:00
install_packages.sh repo: Update linting for 4-spaced shell scripts 2021-04-04 20:52:52 +02:00
packages.txt kitty: Switch to kitty terminal emulator 2022-01-16 15:18:07 +01:00
packages_ignore.txt bootstrap: Update package index 2021-07-10 23:51:48 +02:00
README.md [repo] Add & update docs, fix install script dirs 2020-07-08 13:51:27 +02:00

bootstrap module

The bootstrapping module mainly concerns the setup of the repository itself -- installation of packages, setting up basic options and maintenance scripts.

  • installs general list of packages, listed here
  • if githooks are enabled (either through install script, or manually) will compare installed packages with those on the package list on each commit and warn user about differences (skipping those on the ignore list).
  • contains a simple alias dotlink which allows quickly re-linking dotfiles when they have been changed. This is useful to invoke when files have been removed or added and need to be sym-linked by stow again (only works for ~/.dotfiles dot directory).