Santiago's dotfiles

These are my dotfiles and specific computer configuration steps. Feel free to borrow what you find useful, but consider many steps are tailored to me.

It uses dotbot.

Prerequisites

• cURL
• Git
• Python and Pip
• Wget
• zip and unzip (for SDKMAN!)

You can install them in Ubuntu 24.04 with:

sudo apt install curl git python-is-python3 python3 unzip wget zip

Installation

First check the existing dotfiles in the system home directory and delete them. Then:

cd ~/
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/bryant1410/dotfiles .dotfiles
cd .dotfiles/

./install

This is specialized on Linux, but may also work in other *nix envs.

Main Computer

These are additional steps for a computer I actively use (a "main" one), has Ubuntu and I have sudo access. It requires Python 3.5+. Run:

sudo ./install -p dotbot-apt/apt.py -p dotbot-snap/snap.py -c main_run_with_sudo.conf.yaml
./install -c main_run_without_sudo.conf.yaml

This is specialized on Ubuntu.

Post-installation Steps

1. Steam may be shown as it failed because it actually is waiting for a user to continue from some GUI.

2. A Dropbox-related window may appear. Follow its steps to finish Dropbox's installation.

3. Set "JetBrains Mono Regular" as the font for the system Terminal, Sublime, VS Code, and Guake. Enable the font ligatures wherever possible.

4. Enable settings sync in the JetBrains IDEs.

5. Add Guake to the list of Startup Applications.

6. Install and set up Prey:

   TEMP_DEB=$(mktemp) && wget -O "$TEMP_DEB" 'https://downloads.preyproject.com/prey-client-releases/node-client/1.13.0/prey_1.13.0_amd64.deb' && sudo dpkg --skip-same-version -i "$TEMP_DEB" && rm -f "$TEMP_DEB"
   sudo apt --fix-broken -y install  # Install Prey dependencies.

7. Symlink Pictures to Dropbox/Pictures:

   rmdir ~/Pictures/
   ln -s Dropbox/Pictures ~/Pictures

8. Symlink the Sublime user packages to the ones in Dropbox/Sublime (see more in https://stackoverflow.com/a/11399206/1165181):

   rm -rf ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User
   ln -s ~/Dropbox/Sublime/Packages/User ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User

9. Make Calibre use the library in Dropbox/Calibre Library.

10. Log out and log back in for Docker to work without sudo.

11. Set up the local bashrc and netrc file:

    pushd ~
    ln -s ~/Dropbox/.bashrc.local
    ln -s ~/Dropbox/.netrc
    popd

12. Set up an echo cancellation mic for PulseAudio:

    cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/pulse/default.pa
    .ifexists module-echo-cancel.so
    load-module module-echo-cancel aec_method=webrtc source_name=echo_cancelled source_properties=device.description=EchoCancelled sink_name=echo_cancelled_sink
    set-default-source echo_cancelled
    set-default-sink echo_cancelled_sink
    .endif
    EOF
    pulseaudio -k
    sudo addgroup $USER audio  # To load the config at boot time.

    If using PipeWire, follow the steps to install NoiseTorch.

13. Run the following to include some common SSH configs:

    if ! grep -q 'Include ~/Dropbox/ssh_config' ~/.ssh/config; then
        echo 'Include ~/Dropbox/ssh_config' >> ~/.ssh/config
    fi

14. Free the key binding Ctrl + . so it can be used by IntelliJ.

15. Set up the SSH keys for GitHub.

16. Test WebGL on Chrome (you should get 50-60 FPS). If not, force hardware-accelerated rendering in Google Chrome.

17. Allow ImageMagick to write PDFs.

About the Git Configuration

I save the git config in a 2nd user-specific path (~/.config/git/config), so I can override stuff in the local machine (in ~/.gitconfig), such as the email.

If bash gets slow to load

To debug the ~/.bashrc file when opening a new terminal gets slow, see this gist.