dotfiles

Personal dotfiles for macOS and Manjaro.

Overview

These are configuration files, scripts, lists of packages that I have available for two types of systems: macOS and Manjaro.

• Window Manager: Sway (Manjaro) and Yabai (macOS)
• Terminal emulator: Alacritty
• Terminal multiplexer: tmux
• Shell: Zsh
• Editor: Neovim
• Browser: Firefox

Installation

TODO: use my domain agian for the install link.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knowler/dotfiles/main/.local/bin/install-dotfiles | bash

Generating Nerd Font for Dank Mono (used in Alacritty)

I still need to write out the instructions for this. For now, if you don't have the Nerd Font, then run apply the patch and just don't commit the change:

dots patch no-nerd-font

Using and maintaining

In order to make using and maintaining these dotfiles a breeze, I have setup a command called dots which both wraps Git as well as provides some helpful custom commands. The command works from any directory. The following sections will cover what the custom commands do. You can run dots with -h, --help, or help to see the usage at anytime.

Quickly edit a tracked dotfile

Optionally enter the name of the file. If specific enough, the file will just open in the editor.

dots open <file?>

Installing new packages

To install new packages for either system run:

dots install

Upgrading packages

To upgrade all packages for either system run:

dots upgrade

To upgrade specified packages for either system run:

dots upgrade [packages]

Dumping package lists

To dump recent packages you might have installed to package list use:

dots dump

Ideally, this would be automated when installing packages and I've seen a systemctl hook to automate this which I will be exploring in the near future. I guess a Git hook could work well for the installation part.

Apply a patch

Predefined patches live in the ~/.patches directory. You can use the following command to open a fuzzy chooser for selecting which patches you want to apply:

dots patch

Open the GitHub repo in a browser window

dots web