dotfiles

Overview

The provided dotfiles program manages the usual dotfiles.

Bare git repository for dotfiles, no symlinks are needed
Installs required dependencies

Linux workstation

The provided setup-tumbleweed and setup-user are highly interactive programs to get up and running a new openSUSE Tumbleweed box.

Places /etc into separate, local version control (etckeeper)
Performs optimizations for SSD, swap
Setups hibernation, clock, hostname
Adds/removes packages
Configures automatic download of updates
Other conveniences

Setup on new computer

git clone <git-repo-url>
./dotfiles/bin/setup-tumbleweed
./dotfiles/bin/setup-user
./dotfiles/bin/dotfiles install <git-repo-url>

At this point the programs are available in $PATH.

Operation

Pull from upstream

dotfiles pull

Edit a dotfile

editrc [index|filename]

Create bash script from template

newscript filename

System maintenance

General maintenance:

auto-update: fetches packages in background for available upgrades
upgrade: performs a system upgrade, checks for known issues
drive-health: health routine for file systems / drives
backup: makes a backup from a btrfs subvolume to external drive

System utilities:

boot-svg: export boot sequence to .svg/.txt
btrfs-size: prints storage space for each subvolume
zypper-download: downloads .rpm packages in parallel
zypper-changelog: prints changelogs for updated packages

Tools:

delta: a viewer for git and diff output
notes: write a note
serve: serve HTTP content out of a directory
sp: controls spotify playback
up: tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview
vpn: checks and connects to a VPN

Local-specific script:

local-overrides: checks for each local configuration overrides

References