My personal dotfiles

I've moved to using GNU Stow for my personal dotfiles maintenance instead of a bare repository.

How to setup GNU Stow for your dotfiles?

Caution

Backup your files!

Always cd ~/dotfiles dir before any stow command

My current setup

Window managers

• i3wm (Currently using)
  • Polybar
• Qtile (WARNING: Not maintained, broken config...)
• Hyprland
  • Waybar

General apps used with window managers

• Rofi : for application launcher
• Dunst : for notification
• Flameshot : for screenshot
• Picom : for compositor
• Pcmanfm : for file management
• gammastep : for blue light filter

Terminal Emulators

• Ghostty : Currently using because support images and tabs well.
• Alacritty : Previously used for better performance but lack of tabs support.
• Kitty : Previously used for good features but performance is not as good as Alacritty.

Shells

• Zsh (Currently using)
  • oh-my-zsh
• Bash

Other tools

• Tmux : Currently using for terminal multiplexer.

• Starship : Powerlevel10k alternative written in Rust for prompt for any shell.

• MangoHud : For monitoring system performance in games.

• containers : Podman config for setting custom directory for containers and images.

• mimeapps.list : For setting default applications for file types and protocols.

• autocpufreq

  • For automatic CPU frequency scaling.

• autotarcompress

  • My Script config to automatically compress tar files after creation.

• auto-penguin-setup

  • My script config to automate setup for linux distros.

• my-unicorn

  • My script config to automate appimage management.

Dependencies

neovim dependencies, add to dotfiles

• lazygit nodejs npm laurocks tree-sitter-cli

Other dependencies

• uv oh-my-zsh stow zsh

Automatic setup with shell script

Note

The setup script setup.sh helps automate the process of organizing your dotfiles into a structured format and deploying them using GNU Stow. It provides options for setting up, deploying, and cleaning up backup files, making it easier to manage your dotfiles.

./setup.sh --help
Usage: setup.sh [OPTION]

Options:
  --move              Run move: preview and move files to dotfiles structure
  --stow              Run stow: preview and apply stow symlinks
  --clean             Clean up backup files
  --git               (Experimental) Initialize the dotfiles Git repository
  --help              Show this help message

Move option

Note

This would move your dotfiles to ~/dotfiles It would show preview of changes before applying them It creates backups of original files before moving them to prevent data loss

• For .config files: ~/.config/nvim to ~/dotfiles/dot-config/nvim
• For dot files: ~/.vim to ~/dotfiles/dot-vim
• For dot files: ~/.zshrc to ~/dotfiles/dot-zshrc

# Make the setup script executable
chmod +x setup.sh

# Run the setup script
./setup.sh --move

Stow option

Note

This would stow your dotfiles to your home directory It would show preview of changes before applying them

• This using stow to deploy your files.
• Command used for preview: stow -n -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .
• Command used for deploy: stow -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

# This would deploy your dotfiles to your home directory
./setup.sh --stow

Clean option

Note

This would remove backup files created during setup It would show preview of backups to be removed before applying them

./setup.sh --clean

Manual Setup

1. Create folder ~/dotfiles
2. initialize git repo

echo "# dotfiles" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/Cyber-Syntax/dotfiles.git
git push -u origin main

1. Make folder for ~/.config

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/dot-config/

1. Copy your configs

cp -r ~/.config/nvim ~/dotfiles/dot-config/

1. test stow dry without change anything to make sure about changes correct

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow -n -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

1. If everythings work perfect, stow your files

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

1. Alias for stow ~/dotfiles/.stowrc:

--dotfiles
--target=/home/developer
--ignore=.stowrc
--ignore=setup.sh
--ignore=.stfolder
--ignore=stversions
--ignore=docs

1. stow files to symlink

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow .