dotfiles

Released into the public domain for anyone unfortunate enough to share my sensibilities. This repo exists mostly to make it easier for me to get new machines working, but it might be a useful starting point for your own dotfiles (these were started with Crunchbang defaults).

The background in that screenshot is here, generated using this process.

To install these as your dotfiles:

$ ./setup yes-really

My .bashrc sources dotbash, which it will clone for you if you don't have it already.

The default setup provides several extensions:

• cd
• bashrc-tmux
• bash-prompt
• bash-lambda

You'll see these being installed from their git repos the first time you run a new shell with this setup.

Conky config generated by conky-compiler. You'll need to use TypeCatcher to download Jura to make conkyrc work.

Things you might not expect out of the box

• Ridiculously fast key repeat rate
• I've disabled right-click for the openbox menu; use Win+Space instead
• I'm using an XPS 13 with 4K screen, so fonts may be very large
• There are no window borders (also here)
• I use rxvt-unicode rather than gnome-terminal or similar
• Window-resize is Shift+Alt+Drag, not Alt+RightDrag
• vim has q bound to :x<enter>, which will save+quit immediately
• Terminals are 86 columns wide, the extra to make space for vim line numbers

Stuff referenced by these configs

...almost all of which are apt-get installable.

• rxvt-unicode: terminal emulator
• openbox: window manager
• xcompmgr: compositing for window transparency
• tmux: persistent SSH shell sessions
• xpra: persistent SSH X forwarding, and much faster than ssh -X
• feh: set the desktop background
• audacious: music player (the openbox config has some shortcuts for this)
• xsel: command-line access to X clipboard
• chromium-browser: because I can't be bothered to install proper chrome
• transset: set baseline transparency of a window, for compositing
• shutter: take screenshots
• spacemacs is an Emacs thing; git clone to install from their website
• xtrlock: screen locking

I use vim-gtk to get clipboard integration. apt-get install vim may or may not be sufficient; I'm not sure.

If you want the 10x10 matrix of workspaces, you'll need to have setlayout in your $PATH somewhere.

Openbox keybindings

These are pretty much all custom, but I've been using them for a few years and like the way they work. Almost every shortcut uses the Win key.

TODO: finish this section

Desktops

• W-[hjkl]: change desktops, using vim key directions
• W-S-[hjkl]: change desktop and bring focused window along
• W-[ionm,]: go to specific desktops
• W-d: show desktop
• W-q: lock screen
• W-Space: show openbox menu

Windows

• Alt+F4: close a window
• Alt+Tab: select window on this desktop (Alt+Shift+Tab reverses)
• Win+Tab: select window on all desktops (Win+Shift+Tab reverses)
• Alt+Space: show window menu
• W-s: sticky
• W-f: toggle horizontal maximize
• W-v: toggle vertical maximize

Running things

• W-t: run a terminal
• W-w: run firefox
• W-S-w: run chromium-browser
• W-a: run audacious
• W-S-a: use transset to make Audacious 90% transparent and focus it
• Alt+F2: run-stuff dialog
• PrtSc: run shutter to take screenshots