My Dotfiles

This is my personal configuration for a custom Debian Desktop Environment, including useful scripts, a list of all the programs I use and installation instructions, and my personal color scheme. This mainly works as a reference for myself, but anyone else is also welcome to enjoy and extend upon my configurations. Here are the details of my setup:

• Distro: Debian - Stable and reliable
• WM: BSPWM - A tiling window manager
• DM: LightDM - A simple and beautiful display/login manager
• Shell: Bash
• Terminal: Alacritty - A fast terminal emulator
• Bar: Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• Compositor: Picom - Helps remove screen tearing
• Notifications: Dunst - A simple notification manager
• Launcher: Rofi - An application launcher used for many of my scripts
• File Manager: PCManFM - A basic graphical file manager
• Hotkeys: SXHKD
• Text Editors: Neovim, Vim, Emacs - Programming and text editing
• Music Player: MPD, NCMPCPP - Polybar integration

Scripts

Most of my useful shell scripts are included in ~/.local/bin/.

Here are some example scripts:

• rofi_dman.sh is a script to manage devices with rofi/dmenu. Features include mounting, unmounting, ejecting and listing devices.
• ff.sh is a script that uses FZF to find files by name, file type and/or content.
• bspwm_setup_monitors.sh is a script that allows hot plugging external monitors for BSPWM and Polybar.
• rofi_killprocess.sh is a script to kill running processes with rofi/dmenu.

Colors

Modus Themes

Modus Operandi

Modus Vivendi

Installation

To install and integrate with your system, you need to checkout the master branch and initialize included submodules.

git --work-tree $HOME --git-dir $HOME/dotfiles init
git --work-tree $HOME --git-dir $HOME/dotfiles remote add -t \* -f origin git@github.com:miikanissi/dotfiles.git
git --work-tree $HOME --git-dir $HOME/dotfiles checkout master
git --work-tree $HOME --git-dir $HOME/dotfiles submodule update --init
git --work-tree $HOME --git-dir $HOME/dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Alternatively, you can clone the repository with submodules and move the files manually.

To install all of my packages, you can run my installation script:

./.local/bin/install_programs.sh

I use Ubuntu Mono Nerd Font as my main font. You can use my script to download and install it for your system:

chmod +x ~/.local/bin/install_nerd_fonts_ubuntu_mono.sh
~/.local/bin/install_nerd_fonts_ubuntu_mono.sh

Elementary cursor theme requires moving icons to their correct location:

cp -R ~/.icons/elementary-cursors/elementary/ ~/.icons/

Suckless program installation:

sudo echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=dwm
Comment=Dynamic window manager
Exec=dwm
Icon=dwm
Type=XSession" > /usr/share/xsessions/dwm.desktop
cd .local/src/suckless/dwm && sudo make clean install
cd .local/src/suckless/dmenu && sudo make clean install
cd .local/src/suckless/dwmblocks && sudo make clean install
cd .local/src/suckless/st && sudo make clean install

To automatically run my keyboard setup script when keyboard is attached, we need to create a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-keyboard.rules. You can find the vendor and model ID for all USB devices by running the command lsusb:

ACTION=="bind", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="04b4", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="0510" RUN+="/bin/su m --command='/home/m/.local/bin/keyboard.sh'"

Text Editors

Currently, I have configurations for Neovim (~/.config/nvim/), Vim (~/.vim/) and Emacs (~/.emacs.d/). At this moment I am only using Neovim and that is the only configuration I am maintaining. My Emacs configuration is written as a self documenting Org file for easier understanding.

Light / Dark Mode Toggle

I switch between dark and light mode depending on the ambient light conditions. In order to do that conveniently I have created a script toggle-theme.sh, which automatically changes the color theme on my most used applications (i.e. Neovim, Alacritty, Polybar, GTK).

Links / Credits

To stay up to date with me, visit my website. Useful Links:

• Arch Wiki — A great Linux resource for almost anything
• kickstart.nvim — A great starting point for a Neovim "IDE" configuration
• Uncle Dave — Great YouTube series on configuring Emacs from scratch
• Protesilaos Stavrou — In-depth Emacs content, awesome color themes modus-operandi & modus-vivendi