Dotfiles

Requirements

Ensure the following are installed:

• GNU Stow
• Git
• zsh
  • Oh My Zsh
• alacritty
  • alacritty-theme
• gdb

Font

• Terminess Nerd Font

Installation

# Clone this repo with:
git clone git@github.com:nextredo/dotfiles.git --recurse-submodules

# Use this repo's dotfiles with:
    # Ensure $STOW_DIR is unset
    # Ensure you're in the repository root
# NOTE: If you're unsure about what changes stow will make,
    # then run it with --simulate --verbose
    # if you'd like to stow anyway, use --adopt
stow .

# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# ! *Then follow the extra config steps below* !
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Updates

# 0. `cd` into the root of this repo

# 1. Check if there are any updates
git fetch --all --recurse-submodules

# 2. Pull this repo and submodules
git pull --all --recurse-submodules

# 3. Update the submodules (first time)
git submodule update --init --recursive

# 3. Update submodules (to checkout latest commit in main / master)
git submodule update --remote

# 4. Update symlinks (see installation section)
stow .

Extra config

• Helpful commands

git submodule sync

Font config

• Emoji fonts may not work in Alacritty on Ubuntu 22.04
• See this link for more info
• To solve
  • Either use a newer version of libfreetype (via having a newer Ubuntu version)
  • Or, use alacritty from commit a77f77c

# Ensure your terminal is using the custom fontconfig
# Flush the font cache
fc-cache -f -v

# Test string for the terminal
echo -e "Syms:♥ \nEmojis: ❤️👍😍🙊🥱🥺✨✅🎊🏄⚠️"

Terminal

C / C++ (clangd)

• Configured per-repo, not globally

VSCode

• Uses vscode settings sync

Oh My zsh

• Only theme I've found plays well with conda

# GOOD
# ZSH_THEME="ys"

# ZSH_THEME="gallois"
# - No hostename, username
# - Just path, git branch
# - Has time last cmd took to run
# - Has return code of last item

# Others
# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
# ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
# ZSH_THEME="random"
# ZSH_THEME="tonotdo"
# ZSH_THEME="cypher"
# ZSH_THEME="fino-time"

# Other others
# ZSH_THEME="skaro"
# ZSH_THEME="trapd00r"

# Not great
# ZSH_THEME="kardan"
# ZSH_THEME="geoffgarside"
# ZSH_THEME="simple"

Keyd

# Symlink setup (requires superuser privileges)
sudo ln -s ~/.config/keyd/default.conf /etc/keyd/default.conf

sudo systemctl status keyd
sudo systemctl enable keyd --now
sudo keyd reload

# Chown the file as root so regular userspace programs can't mess with your keyboard
sudo chown root:root ~/.config/keyd/default.conf

Powertop

• The Framework 12th Gen Intel has terrible battery life (i5-1240p)
• It's advisable to do whatever you can to save on power consumption
• Introducing: sudo powertop --auto-tune
• It's developed by intel, so I trust em somewhat

Important notes

• Make sure not to turn off "Autosuspend for USB ..." settings
• This causes mice and alike to become sluggish to wake up from sleep

Systemd integration

# Setup the systemd service unit file
sudo cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/powertop.service
# Thanks to the Arch Wiki <3
# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Powertop
###########################################

[Unit]
Description=PowerTOP auto tune

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/powertop --auto-tune

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target sleep.target
EOF

# Restart the daemon so it uses the new unit
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# Enable and start the service
sudo systemctl enable powertop.service --now

Bash

• To use this file put the following in your actual bashrc / fishrc / zshrc
  • (assuming this file is in ~/dotfiles/)

source ~/dotfiles/.spicy.bashrc

References

Dreams of Autonomy - Stow