These are my personal configuration files. Please feel free to use them or browse them.
The goal of my dotfiles are to provide me with a portable user experience across all the machines that I use. At home, I use an Arch Linux laptop. I'm currently in the process of refactoring the deployment of these files using Ansible and GNU stow.
I run my system lean. I use a window manager setup, i.e. I pick and choose
every single component that goes into my system. Right now I'm using awesome.
I have some utility scripts in the bin folder.
Some of my configuration files might depend on these.
If you're looking for my custom Emacs configuration, I've moved it to its own repository. My Spacemacs configuration is found in this repository, though.
Here's what I'm running that I have configuration files for:
| Software | Function/purpose |
|---|---|
| awesome | Window manager |
| awful.wibar | Status bar (builtin with awesome) |
| emacs | Text editor |
| alacritty | Terminal emulator |
| naughty | Notification daemon (builtin with awesome) |
| ranger | Terminal file-manager |
| sxhkd | Hotkey daemon |
| autorandr | Automatic switching of display setups |
| picom | Compositor (not currently being used) |
Clone the repository, then install the dotfiles packages all at once with the
install.sh script:
git clone https://github.com/jstamant/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./install.sh
Or use stow from the dotfiles folder to individually manage packages:
cd ~/.dotfiles
stow <package_name> # Installs the folder called <package_name>
stow -D <package_name> # Stows/uninstalls the links to <package_name>
stow --restow <package_name> # Uninstalls and re-installs the links to <package_name>
In the future, installation of these dotfiles will be managed by an Ansible playbook that I'm working on. Having a dotfiles repository is nice, but the convenience isn't worth much if I can't pull the required software at the same time.
I've tried quite a few combinations of window managers and software over the years. I have configuration files for these pieces of software that I no longer use:
- xmonad, window manager
- bspwm, window manager
- dwm, window manager
- i3, window manager
- openbox, window manager
- dunst, notification daemon
- feh, wallpaper-setter
- trayer, system tray
- xmobar, status bar
- polybar, status bar
- tint2, status bar
- xbindkeys, hotkey daemon
- xterm, terminal emulator
- rxvt-unicode, terminal emulator
- st, terminal emulator
- kitty, terminal emulator
Setup from 2022:
Setup from 2020: looks like I was trying bspwm as my window manager, at some point!
