We aim to provide a set of scripts to set the user shell environment.

The scripts are

• built over conventions for an easy setup
• POSIX-compliant : they run on bash, dash, zsh, and more.
• XDG-compliant : they follow the XDG base dir specification and set the user directories

Setup

Create the directory /etc/profile.d.

mkdir /etc/profile.d

Copy all the scripts from this repository in /etc/profilei.d.

Finally, add the next lines in the file /etc/profile.

if test -d '/etc/profile.d/'; then
    for f in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
        if test -r "$f"; then
          . "$f"
        fi
    done
    unset f
fi

Configuration

ls utility colors

Create the file ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME'/.config'}/dir_colors and set your own configuration. See the dir_colors man page for more details.

Alternatively, you can use an existing configuration, such as solarized theme.

Note that some projects prefer dircolors instead of dir_colors. We support also this name.

User locales

Create the file ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME'/.config'}/locale.conf.

The set of availables are listed on the ArchLinux wiki

A simple example :

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8

User profiles and programs

Create the folder ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config"}/profile.d. Every file in this directory with the extension .sh are sourced.

For instance, you can create a file programs.sh and export some of the next variables:

• BROWSER: path to a web browser.
• EDITOR: path to a lightweight editor for text file editing. e.g. nano
• PAGER: path to a text file reader. e.g. less
• VISUAL: path to an editor for text file editing. e.g. vim, emacs

If not set, EDITOR is set to the value of VISUAL.

If not set, PAGER is set in the next priority order: most, less, more.

A simple example :

export PAGER=more
export VISUAL=vim

XDG base dirs

You can directly modify the XDG base directories in /etc/profile.d/10-xdg-base-dirs.sh.

XDG user dirs

Just follow the XDG user dirs specification.

A more partical tutorial is available on the ArchLinux wiki.

Features

Less

Prevent less to write an history at the home user directory.

SSH

If the SSH agent is running then the needed environment variable in order to reach it is exported. This is useful for commands such as ssh-add.

User path

If the user is in the administrator group wheel, then the directory $HOME/.local/bin is added to the PATH variable.

Xorg server

THe file $HOME/.Xauthority is moved to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/Xauthority