Personal install script & dotfiles for setup

Programs

Program	Web link
Operating system	Debian 11 - Bullseye
Shell	ZSH
Editor	NvChad
Terminal emulator	Kitty
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Window manager	Bspwm
Compositor	Picom
Hotkey daemon	Sxhkd
Colour scheme	Catppuccin
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Browser	Firefox ESR
Music player	Spotify
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TODO

• use docker & it's bind mounts to containerise only the build / packages for a language (eg: postgresDB)
  • write a script to do this properly
• install:
  • a rm drop in replacement
• add a script to set default tty prompt for user (ie, don't type user on startup)
• finish off polybar config
  • 12 hour time
  • sleep, lock
  • shutdown & reboot
  • audio output swap
• finish ROFI config

ZSH:

Add below to '/etc/zsh/zshenv' (causes zshenv settings to be global)

if [[ -z $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ]]
then
        export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
fi

if [[ -z $ZDOTDIR ]]
then
        export ZDOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh"
fi

Run the script

Requirements

• bash
• wget
• sed
• chsh

Note: these applications should be present in base Debian 11

Run

1. Install Debian 11

Suggestions:

• Installing a minimal version:
  • no X server
  • no desktop environment (including unchecking Debian destop environment + GNOME)
  • no user (except root) (when prompted, click Go Back twice, and skip the user setup steps)

2. wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/G-Rowell/dotfiles/main/.config/dotfiles/install.sh | bash

What this script does

1. Installs this list of packages
2. Sets up the user, including:
   • giving special sudo permissions for various commands such as apt
3. Installs various dotfile configurations, notable ones include:
   • NeoVim
   • Kitty
   • Zsh
   • Bspwm + Picom + Sxhkd + Polybar
4. Installs various applications from third-party repos:
   • Spotify
   • NeoVim
   • Docker
   • A nerd-font (for special symbols)

Acknowledgements

This was compiled together from various public dotfiles, tutorials and many forum posts across the internet. Thank you to all.

Including:

• Luke Smith LARBS

  Much of this repo has been taken or inspired from his, including bin scripts.
  

• Atlasssian Git bare repo for Dotfiles

• Ulises Jeremias' dotfile generator (and rofi scripts)

• Rofi scripts:

  • Niraj998 rofi scripts