Daniel's .dotfiles

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I'm Daniel and I'm passionate about creating network services and network technologies. In short, I'm a Homelab nerd.

This Repository Dotfiles contain my personal config files. Here you'll find configs, customizations, themes, and whatever I need to personalize my Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows experience.

⚠️ Be aware, products can change over time. I do my best to keep up with the latest changes and releases, but please understand that this won’t always be the case.

I created them as free resources to be used in your specific use cases.

Setup Instructions

Prerequisites

• A Nerd Font installed and enabled in your terminal (for example, try the AnonymicePro Nerd Font).

Step 1: Install ZSH

Ensure that ZSH is installed on your system.

For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install zsh

For Fedora:

sudo dnf install zsh

Step 2: Set ZSH as Default Shell

chsh -s $(which zsh)

You may need to log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.

Step 3: Install Oh My Zsh

Install Oh My Zsh using curl:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Step 4: Install Starship

Download and install Starship:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh)" --yes

Step 5: Install zsh-autosuggestions Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Step 6: Install zsh-syntax-highlighting Plugin

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Step 7: Install EZA

EZA - A modern, maintained replacement for ls

Debian and Ubuntu

Eza is available from deb.gierens.de. The GPG public key is in this repo under deb.asc. First make sure you have the gpg command, and otherwise install it via:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

Then install eza via:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza

Fedora

Fedora support is in the works. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238264

Step 8.1: Configure .zshrc File

Open the configuration file .zshrc in an editor:

nano ~/.zshrc

Add configuration for Starship:

eval "$(starship init zsh)"

Add plugins to the list in the .zshrc file:

plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Ensure that the initialization of zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin is at the end of the .zshrc file:

source ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Step 8.2: Fetch and Apply Dotfiles from My GitHub

Clone my dotfiles repository from GitHub to the /tmp directory and apply the settings:

git clone https://github.com/haooxin/.dotfiles.git /tmp/dotfiles

Move all .dotfiles to your home directory.

Step 9: Reload Configuration

Apply the changes by reloading the configuration file:

source ~/.zshrc

Step 10: Verification

Check if all components are working properly:

• Open the terminal and see if Starship is displaying its prompt.
• Start typing commands to see suggestions from zsh-autosuggestions.
• Check if the syntax is highlighted by zsh-syntax-highlighting.

Contribution

As this is my personal Homelab documentation, I don't accept any contributions. But feel free to fork this repository and use it for your own documentation.