Marty Oehme
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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. |
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README.md
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
dotlinkwhich 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~/.dotfilesdot directory).