My Dotfiles
A place to track my configuration files (dotfiles). They are personal and some of them are pretty segsy.
Taken on 07-12-2023.
Packages installed on the system (Arch Linux) are tracked in committed files:
- standard packages:
./.dotfiles-not-a-soy-dev/installed_packages/pacman_packages_list - AUR packages:
./.dotfiles-not-a-soy-dev/installed_packages/foreign_packages_list - packages to omit from these lists:
./.dotfiles-not-a-soy-dev/installed_packages/ignore_packages_list
Installation
To apply all dot files:
- Install
yadm - Run
yadm clone <link-to-this-repo> - Run
yadm bootstrap
Display scripts
I've found its easiest to setup displays using a GUI, for example, arandr,
rather than direct xrandr commands. After the display configuration is
correct, it can be exported as a script and saved to .screenlayout/.
.screenlayou/auto_display.sh finds which outputs are connected and calls the
corresponding display script that was generated by the GUI. This script allows
other programs, for example i3wm, to update the display configuration in a
standard way. The script will take care of doing what is 'right'. The specific
mappings and generated scripts will need to be modified on a per-machine
basis.
Pacwall
pacwall generates a kick-ass wallpaper that is an annotated dependency graph
of the currently installed system packages. It sets the wallpaper using a hook
provided in its configuration. Entities wanting to update the wallpaper should
call pacwall to ensure a single-source-of-truth for the wallpaper setting
process.
On-startup programs
The window manager, i3wm, runs the "startup" programs because many display
managers don't run the traditional x files. For example, lightdm doesn't run
.xinitrc.