Linux Configuration Files

This repository contains various configuration files for Linux environment.

Rxvt Unicode

Directory: rxvt-unicode

The default Rxvt Unicode settings tuned in files:

1. Xresources-common

   • Scroll bar placed on right side of window.
   • Scroll buffer increased to 10 000 lines.

2. Xresources-twilight

   Twilight color scheme.

Usage: include corresponding file to user's ~/.Xresources file

#include "configs/rxvt-unicode/Xresources-common"

Please note that this requires C Preprocessor. The comments in file are started from exclamation mark (!).

Bash Configuration

The file bashrc contains the following tweaks for Bash configuration which are applied for interactive shell only:

• less command tuned to show colors, be silent, exit if content to show fits single screen and skip ncurses initialization and deinitialization (this preserves less output after exit).

• ls colors tuned to be a little bit brighter for Twilight terminal color scheme.

• The history tuned to avoid storing duplicates, always append history and ignore common commands:

  • ls

  • fg

  • bg

  • exit

  since no reason to store them.

• If Git completion is installed the prompt tuned to show current branch and dirty state in "yellow" (whatever it means for current terminal's color scheme).

• Aliases for ls added to use colors and file suffixes:

  • ls - default format

  • lh - long format with sizes in human readable form.

Bash prompt parts colors can be overridden with the following variables:

• AVM_PROMPT_JOB_COUNT_COLORS

  Colors for job count information (magenta by default).

• AVM_PROMPT_GIT_BRANCH_COLORS

  Colors for Git branch and status (yellow by default).

• AVM_PROMPT_SUCCESS_COLORS

  Colors for succeeded last command (green by default).

• AVM_PROMPT_FAIL_COLORS

  Colors for failed last command (red by default).

Usage: source bashrc to user's ~/.bashrc:

. configs/bashrc

Xkb Layouts

The default Russian keyboard layouts in Linux have the following issues:

• They don't allow to enter most of symbols used as good typography practice, for example, dashes or ellipsis.

• The Macintosh layout allows to enter Rouble sign but it is placed to button different from Mac layout.

Additional Xkb layouts placed to xkb subdirectory. The provide:

• Updated layout 'Russian (Macintosh)' to include more symbols for true MacOS layout.

• Additional layout 'Russian (Macintosh, Alexey Martynov)' which places the following characters (letters in English):

  • 'λ' on 'RAlt-l'
  • 'ε' on 'RAlt-e'
  • 'combining acute' on 'RAlt-Shift-e', used to show stress in words
  • 'non-breaking space' on 'RAlt-Space'
  • 'zero-width joiner' on 'RAlt-Shift-Space'

• Additional layout 'US (Macintosh, Alexey Martynov) providing:

  • 'non-breaking space' on 'RAlt-Space'
  • 'zero-width joiner' on 'RAlt-Shift-Space'
  • 'combining acute' on 'RAlt-Shift-e' (instead of simple acute), used to show stress in words

To install please execute

patch -p0 < ~/configs/ru-mac.patch

or

patch -p0 < ~/configs/us-mac.patch

in the directory with X11 Xkb layouts (usually /usr/share/X11/Xkb/symbols).

To get new layouts available the XSLT tranformations added to patch evdev.xml. Please run one of the commands to apply them:

# cp evdev.xml evdev.xml.orig && xsltproc ~/configs/xkb/install-ru.xslt evdev.xml.orig > evdev.xml
# cp evdev.xml evdev.xml.orig && xsltproc ~/configs/xkb/install-us.xslt evdev.xml.orig > evdev.xml
# cp evdev.xml evdev.xml.orig && xsltproc ~/configs/xkb/install-ru.xslt evdev.xml.orig | xsltproc ~/configs/xkb/install-us.xslt - > evdev.xml

Zsh Configuration

To use this configuration files the following should be written to .zshenv (assuming that repository is checked out to $HOME/configs:

export ZDOTDIR="$HOME/configs/zsh"

. "$ZDOTDIR/.zshenv"

To properly show Powerline segments in prompt the fonts from https://github.com/powerline/fonts should be installed and selected for terminal application.

All platform-dependent configuration should go to files with suffix -$(uname). For example, MacOS (actually, Darwin) environment goes to .zshenv-Darwin.