aliedots

To use the dots, on a fresh installation of Arch linux(not tested on other distros but might work) execute

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Vedant36/aliedots .local

link .local/lib/dotfiles/pam_environment to home

ln -s ~/.local/lib/dotfiles/pam_environment ~/.pam_environment

to get a wallpaper, link an image to ~/pix/current* (check ~/.local/etc/X11/xinitrc to change this)

execute the xinit wrapper x on the shell to start the x server

Home Directory structure

$HOME
|---.local/
|   |---bin/                <!-- added to PATH -->
|   |   |---experimental/   <!-- for unused and experiemental scripts -->
|   |   |---scripts/        <!-- added to PATH -->
|   |   |---wrappers/       <!-- added to PATH -->
|   |---etc/                <!-- XDG_CONFIG_HOME -->
|   |---lib/                <!-- XDG_LIB_HOME(non-standard) -->
|   |   |---dotfiles/       <!-- archived files or for the install script -->
|   |   |---python/         <!-- contains startup.py -->
|   |   |---root/           <!-- root files -->
|   |---mnt/                <!-- directory for mtp(android mounting) -->
|   |---opt/                <!-- contains local repos like dwm, dmenu, etc -->
|   |---share/              <!-- XDG_DATA_HOME -->
|   |---tmp/                <!-- for temporary files and unused xdg-user-dirs(etc/user-dirs.dirs) -->
|   |   |---desktop/
|   |   |---public/
|   |   |---templates/
|   |---var/
|   |   |---cache/          <!-- XDG_CACHE_HOME -->
|   |   |---lib/            <!-- XDG_STATE_HOME(non-standard) -->
|   |   |---log/            <!-- XDG_LOG_HOME(non-standard) -->
|---dl/
|---dox/
|---melum/
|---pix/
|---vids/
|---.pam_environment

Notes

• Using the xdg variable structure inspired from ayekat's dotfiles
• the set-up script is lib/dotfiles/setup.sh, although that is not necessary to get the aliedots experience
• {packages,foreign packages} i use are in lib/dotfiles/{pkglist,foreignpkglist}.txt
• lib/root contains files that should be hard linked to / with the same folder structure
  • symbolic links might be better
  • a PKGBUILD is a possibility will not be cross distro compatible
• the user and the(currently non-existent) root crontab will be available in lib/dotfiles/crontab
• if a different XDG_CONFIG_HOME is used, the variable at the line matching ^set preview_script in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ranger/rc.conf needs to be changed

Tags that can be found in comments throughout the scripts and config

• TODO for procrastinating
• REWRITE if the script/other file needs rewriting later
• Source indicating the original source of a part of the script
• IDEA or IDEAS
• SYSTEM_DEPENDENT for code that might not work on other systems
• Dependencies
• Temporary for changes that might be reverted later

problematic files

• share/ranger/bookmarks: only first line changes pretty quickly(mark ' is saved there)
• share/zsh/.zsh_history: very long and has unneccesarily long diffs when commiting
• etc/MediaHuman/YouTube to MP3.conf: same as above except this file is much less useful

TODO

• this might be a really bad idea but what if i could symlink / to lib/root then just use gitignore to track only the files i need. can't really think of any security issues now
• etc/environment.d/*: don't know a way to transfer them to shell variables