dotfiles

Here are my dotfiles for commonly used programs Feel free to use or suggest improvements!

I use GNU Stow to maintain a symlink with my git repo see this link for a guide to do this yourself. It provides a much cleaner way to keep your dotfiles up to date. This will allow you to git pull to get the latest files. I setup the gitignore to ignore plugins and other files that will automatically download on install

Installation Instructions

For Linux:

Install basic tools

# utilities
sudo apt-get -y install vim git stow curl ranger terminator zsh

# programming 
sudo apt-get -y install python3 python3-pip build-essential cmake llvm

# visual
sudo apt-get -y install feh compton 

# fonts
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1
cd fonts
./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf fonts

SSH for Git

1. ssh-keygen
2. Enter a password for your ssh key
3. Copy and paste cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your git authentication
4. eval 'ssh-agent'
5. ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Install oh-my-zsh

# Automatic method
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

# You can do it manually too!
1. `git clone git@github.com:robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh`
2. `cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
3. `chsh -s /bin/zsh`

# Reboot your terminal and zsh will be loaded!

Clone dotfiles and symlink it

# clone dotfiles repo via HTTP 
git clone https://github.com/Tanbourine/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles

# OR clone dotfiles repo via SSH
git clone git@github.com:Tanbourine/dotfiles.git

# Remove pre-populated files, if any
rm ~/.zshrc
rm -r ~/.config/ranger
rm -r ~/.config/i3

mkdir ~/.config/ranger
mkdir ~/.config/i3

# symbolically link files stored in ~/
cd ~/dotfiles && stow vim && stow zsh && stow git

# i3 and ranger files are stored in ~/.config
cd ~/dotfiles
stow ranger -t ~/.config/ranger
stow i3 -t ~/.config/i3

Vim Setup

• Open vim and run **:PlugInstall** to initialize plugins
  • If you have git authentication errors, make sure sslVerify is false in ~/.gitconfig

YouCompleteMe

YouCompleteMe is a handy completion engine that requires a little extra work to install

cd ~/.vim/plugged/youcompleteme
./install.py --clang-completer

i3 gaps setup instructions

# installing dependencies
sudo apt install libxcb1-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libpango1.0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libyajl-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libev-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev autoconf xutils-dev libtool

# run this if you have issues with libxcb-xrm-dev
mkdir tmp
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm
cd xcb-util-xrm
git submodule update --init
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install


# install gaps here
cd /tmp
git clone https://www.github.com/Airblader/i3 i3-gaps
cd i3-gaps
git checkout gaps && git pull
autoreconf --force --install
rm -rf build
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
sudo make install


# install status bar and application launcher
sudo apt-get install i3status dmenu

#reboot your computer and select i3 from the login screen

Python setup

# upgrade pip
python -m pip install --user --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip

# install virtualenv
python -m pip install --user virtualenv
python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

Creating and working with a virtualenv

You always want to work inside a virtual environment to keep track of your dependencies. (Why?)[https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/] (More Documentation)[https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtualenv/]

# create virtualenv in the working directory
python -m virtualenv venv
# OR 
python3 -m virtualenv venv

Activate virtualenv

source env/bin/activate

Deactivate virtualenv

deactivate

Common commands (inside a virtualenv)

# check which packages you have installed
pip list 

# install new packages
pip install <package_name>

# uninstall packages
pip uninstall <package_name>

# freezing dependencies (create requirements file)
pip freeze > requirements.txt

# using requirements files
pip install -r requirements.txt

For MacOS:

• Install homebrew

i/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

brew update
brew upgrade

• Install iTerm2

• Install oh-my-zsh Wiki

brew install zsh zsh-completions
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Install GNU stow

brew install stow

• Clone dotfiles and symlink it

git clone https://github.com/Tanbourine/dotfiles.git ~/
cd ~/ rm .zshrc
cd dotfiles && stow vim && stow zsh

• To get the zsh powerline to display fonts correctly, install a powerline font I use Source Code Pro from https://github.com/powerline/fonts Change your iTerm font to Souce Code Pro for Powerline

• Open vim and run :PlugInstall to initialize plugins

• Finish installation of YouCompleteMe

brew install --with-toolchain llvm
python ~/.vim/plugged/youcompleteme/install.py

• Enjoy!

For Windows:

• Burn your computer
• But really it's work in progress

vim

vim is life!

I split my modularized my .vimrc configurations and just sourced them all in my main .vimrc. It makes things much cleaner and easier to follow.

• settings.vim
• plugins.vim
• plugin_configs.vim