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# `~/🌹`
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Note that the below screenshots still show the X configuration from [v0.1](https://gitlab.com/marty-oehme/dotfiles/-/tags/v0.1) which is *very* old by now.
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The current dotfiles are geared toward wayland for which the setup looks similar but not identical to the previews below.
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## What's in these dotfiles
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* [x] wayland setup using `riverwm` with quick access to many overlays and picking tools for styles, downloads, browsing history, passwords and more
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* [x] vim configuration for simple programming tasks (especially python/bash/lua) and prose (markdown/quarto/latex)
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* [x] academic workflow tools, to allow quick citation, pdf compilation, and preview
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* [x] simple, efficient waybar with package update notification and mpris integration
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* [x] system-wide color management (terminals, vim, qutebrowser, polybar, xresources) through [`flavours`](https://github.com/Misterio77/flavours) application using [base16](http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/) themes
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* [x] quick theme switching by activating `flavours` and fuzzy-searching themes with hot-key (default `<Super>=<Shift>+S`)
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* [x] quick directory jumping using `z`, with `fzf` integration
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* [x] `fzf`-like integrations for bibtex citation, vim buffer management, most recently used switching, shell command history, and more
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* [x] password management with `pass` and picking it with automatic typing into any window
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[![Styler recoloring demo](https://gitlab.com/marty-oehme/dotfiles/-/wikis/uploads/bde87deda694590a2e08e21552e11309/styler.webp)](https://gitlab.com/marty-oehme/dotfiles/-/wikis/uploads/90894e53eff378db4d7f9f49e7a69fab/styler.mp4)
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## Quick-Start
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The dotfiles use `dotter` to link themselves in the home directory. You can clone this repository anywhere (though I have mine in `~/.dotfiles` as it seemed most logical for me).
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I would recommend doing an initial `git clone --recursive` for this repository, since it contains git [submodules](https://nering.dev/2016/git-submodules-vs-subtrees/), which will then automatically get pulled in as well.
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Of course, you can do it non-recursively and then just pull those modules selectively which you actually want.
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Once in the repository directory, when you then run `./install.sh` it will install many of the packages I use (though they are probably slightly out-of-date) and link the dotfiles into the home directory.
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I would mostly recommend this on fresh machines or a test machine first - it *will* link my personal dotfiles and, if you allow it, *will* install quite a few packages.
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By default it will ask your consent for some steps -- use `./install.sh -f` to force yes to everything.
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The dotfile installation procedure is based on `dotter`, it will generally *not overwrite* anything already in the home directory, but of course be observant when doing ptentially destructive operations.
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> **NOTE**
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> The same non-destructive installation procedure does *not* apply to the package installation and system setting file linking, where it can potentially overwrite or remove existing files.
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After all files are linked and you open a new shell session, the `dotlink` alias will allow you to re-link all dotfiles from anywhere on the system.[^1]
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[^1]: This alias only works when the dotfiles are cloned into `~/.dotfiles`, mirroring my setup.
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This is due to a hard-coded cd into this directory.
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If your dotfiles lie in another directory and you want to use the dotlink alias, simply change the corresponding line in `bootstrap/.config/sh/alias.d/dotlink.sh`
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Both automatic installation paths are presumably somewhat brittle. In any case, I would suggest to manually look through the files for things you want instead of copying and activating everything.
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Dotfiles are too personal to be standardized like that.
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They're pets, not cattle.
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Enjoy!
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## Main Modules
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![Overview - an older image of the dotfile desktop with gaps, showing git logs, styler logs, duckduckgo in a browser, and a vifm view of the dotfiles themselves](https://gitlab.com/marty-oehme/dotfiles/-/wikis/uploads/aaf0319d575dc192ea0f4bd6eaf83c08/gaps.png)
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* [`wayland`](https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland) - Containing basics for fully functional tiling wayland setup:
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* [`river`](https://github.com/riverwm/river) - Tiling window manager for wayland
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* [`waybar`](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar) - Easily customizable statusbar for wayland
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* [`bemenu`](https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu) - Extended dmenu replacement for wayland, X11 and ncurses
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* [`fontconfig`] - System-wide font replacements and styling settings
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* [`wezterm`](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/) - Terminal emulator (fast, understandable and lua configurable)
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* [`tmux`](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/) - terminal multiplexer (slowly migrating away in favor of wezterm)
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* [`nvim`](https://neovim.io/) - Neovim configuration
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* [`vifm`](https://github.com/vifm/vifm) - vim-like file-manager
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* [`qutebrowser`](https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser) - vim-key enabled web browser
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* [`pass`](pass/README.md) - Password management suite
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* [`bibtex`] - LateX/BibteX/pandoc plaintext writing & reference suite
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* [`git`](git/README.md) - distributed version control system.
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* [`office`](office/README.md) - office/productivity software for writing e-mail and setting appointments
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## Notes
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* Generally, most configuration for applications attempts to follow the XDG specifications, keeping configuration in .config directory and supplementary files in .local/share directory. Over time, I am moving more applications to this standard: it keeps the home directory clean, and the separation of configuration, binaries, and data relatively clear.
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* The `zsh` directory contains all setup for the z-shell, my daily work environment. It should not be required for working with any other module but will add additional functionality to many (such as command auto-completion and so on). `sh` sets some base functionality for any shell you may wish to work in. It is, for now, the only module that is required for some other modules to work.[^shreq]
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* `rofi` contains additional scripts and a simple theming framework for rofi and should probably be reorganized to put the correct files into the correct directories (per xdg) at some point.
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* Whereas `sh` module scripts are requirements for other scripts, `.local/bin` in the `scripts` module contains most executable user scripts. Most of these have been migrated to other corresponding modules (e.g. if a script exclusively targets git functionality, it will live there), some useful --- or left-over --- stand-alone scripts remain however.
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* `.local/share/pandoc` contains configuration for academic latex writing (pandoc, really) and is of interest if you want to use this functionality.
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* `.xinitrc` is used for x initialization and program startup. At some point, some of the consistently running applications may be moved to systemd/runit as supervised services.
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* Generally, top-level directories starting with a . are only meaningful for the *repository* not for the functionality of the machine that these dotfiles are deployed on. That means `.gitlab-ci.yml`, `.assets/`, `.gitignore` and similar files and directories will not show up in the final deployment in any home directory. Perhaps they should be called dotdot-files since they're the dotfiles for my dotfiles. 🙂 (Also, '[dotfiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation)'.)
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[^shreq]: I may remove this requirement in the future to make modules more self-contained. However, relying on some base utility scripts makes it easier to avoid duplicating such functionality for each individual script in other modules.
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![Gapless - the same image as above, only displayed without gaps](https://gitlab.com/marty-oehme/dotfiles/-/wikis/uploads/21791f77da013cdac64f11eff61584e3/gapless.png)
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