DakEnviy's Dotfiles

More than just dotfiles. An intelligent framework that detects your environment, installs selected apps, and configures them dynamically.

Demo • Features • Installation • Template

⚡ Why this framework?

Most dotfiles are static: they copy files and hope you have the right apps installed. DakEnviy/dots is different. It acts as an Infrastructure-as-Code layer for your workstation. Instead of blindly copying files, it scans your environment, installs missing tools, and generates configurations dynamically — minimizing errors and keeping your system consistent across machines.

Powered by chezmoi ❤️ — Leverages its templating engine and state management. See docs for details.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Smart Bootstrap: Automatically installs chezmoi, clones the repo, and re-initializes to configure newly installed packages.

• 🔍 Intelligent Scanning: Checks your system for installed binaries. If a tool isn't found, its config is skipped — preventing broken paths and configuration errors.

• 🤖 Interactive Setup: A smart prompt system lets you choose what to install and configure. It remembers your choices and only prompts again when the available tool list changes or detected binaries change.

• 📦 Multi-Manager Support: Unifies package installation across apt, brew, cargo, and custom scripts. Also supports external binaries via chezmoi externals.

• 🔄 Idempotent Design: All scripts are safe to run multiple times. Plugin managers only update when their config files actually change (using content hashing).

• 🖥️ Context Awareness: Distinguishes between desktop and server environments to apply relevant logic (e.g., GPG setup only on desktop).

• 🔐 Secret Management: Integrates with Bitwarden to fetch GPG keys and auto-configures Git commit signing. On servers, it can fetch and populate SSH authorized_keys from a URL.

• 🔌 Plugin Automation: Automatically manages plugins for Fish (fisher), Tmux (tpm), and Vim (vim-plug).

• 🔔 Update Reminder: Notifies you when dotfiles updates are available upstream, with automatic background checks on each shell session.

  

📚 See CONFIGS.md for detailed documentation of each configuration.

🛠 Installation

To bootstrap a fresh system, simply run:

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS dots.dakenviy.tech)"

And answer the prompts to install the needed tools and configs for them.

🏗️ Want to build your own? Use the clean template to create your intelligent dotfiles system.

🚀 Usage

chezmoi init   # Initialize and configure
chezmoi apply  # Apply configurations

💡 Tip: Run chezmoi diff before apply to preview changes. All operations are idempotent — apply is safe to run multiple times.

Reconfiguration: The setup remembers your choices and won't prompt again unless binaries or available tools change. To manually adjust your selection:

chezmoi init --prompt  # Re-run interactive setup
chezmoi apply          # Apply new choices

Syncing changes: Use standard git commands in the source directory (~/.local/share/chezmoi) to commit, push, and pull your changes.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license — see the LICENSE file for details.