Dotfile

Why using a dotfiles ?

Initially, i am not using the dotfiles to manage my config files, i am using multiply repositories to manage all the config files. But i found that it is very hard to manage all the files. After i repeating git add, git commit, git push for couple of times, i think that i should make a change. But the problem come, i don't really know how to do. I spend some time to do research and summarize something. This also can remind me how i do this.

First, have to create one file to store all the configuration file

mkdir ~/.dotfiles

Next, will be mv all your configuration files which you want to upload to your github

If you mv config files from .config file, you have to make sure .config file have created in your .dotfiles

mv .bashrc ~/.dotfiles/
mv .zshrc ~/.dotfiles/
mv .config/nvim ~/.dotfiles/.config

After the config files have move into .dotfiles/, all the configuration will lose, so you have to link the file in your home directory to make sure the applications can work

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/bashrc ~/
ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/zshrc ~/
ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/.config/nvim ~/.config/

If all these done, your config file in your home directory should be like this

After finishing all these our dotfiles almost done

Lastly, you need to create a new repository and link with your dotfiles

Then you are done with your dotfiles

A minimal and fast terminal emulator

• Alacritty configuration

Window manager

The configuration tutorial is from derek taylor

Derek Taylor's Youtube channel

Tiling window manager

• Qtile configuration
• Awesome configuration
• XMonad configuration
• BspWM configuration

Floating window manager

• Openbox configuration

Applications

Status Bar for XMonad and BspWM

Xmobar for XMonad

• Xmobar

PolyBar for BspWM

• PolyBar

Rofi

• Rofi configuration

Neovim

• Neovim configuration

Starship

Increase the gui of shell prompt

• Starship Configuration

Sources

• Derek Taylor's Gitlab