TheBinaryPenguin's Dotfiles and More

Usage

1. Copy everything (except README.md) to your home directory

2. Replace placeholders in .gitconfig

3. Create the following symlinks

   ln -s ~/.vim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
   ln -s ~/.vim/.gvimrc ~/.gvimrc
   

Desktop Configuration Tips

The following may be Ubuntu and/or GNOME specific.

GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal can be configured to set the TERM environment variable to "xterm-256color" (instead of the default "xterm") by having it run the following command instead of the normal shell command.

env TERM=xterm-256color /bin/bash

"Places" Directories

The default "Places" directories can be configured with the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

Example: Point to lowercase versions of the defaults

xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP $HOME/desktop
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD $HOME/downloads
xdg-user-dirs-update --set TEMPLATES $HOME/templates
xdg-user-dirs-update --set PUBLICSHARE $HOME/public
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOCUMENTS $HOME/documents
xdg-user-dirs-update --set MUSIC $HOME/music
xdg-user-dirs-update --set PICTURES $HOME/pictures
xdg-user-dirs-update --set VIDEOS $HOME/videos

File Associations

File associations can be changed by copying the defaults from /usr/share/applications/defaults.list to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and then modifying them.

Example: Change default text editor from Gedit to Sublime Text

sed -n 's/gedit.desktop/sublime_text.desktop/Ip' \
  /usr/share/applications/defaults.list >>       \
  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Desktop Auto-Run

Desktop files in ~/.config/autostart/ are run automatically when you login.

Example: Run awesome-script.sh

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Awesome Script Name
Exec=~/bin/awesome-script.sh
Icon=system-run
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true