WSL Dotfiles

Customizing my work environment brings me the same kind of joy like installing Skyrim mods. I could spend days downloading stuff, making sure everything works together, but I still haven't beaten the main quest. These are dotfiles for a mostly terminal-based environment, TUIs and CLIs over GUIs. One day I will automate the setup using Nix.

Prereqs on Windows Host

• Pengwin on MS Store - $9.99
  • Alternative: Debian WSL
• X410 X Server on MS Store - $9.99
  • Alternative: VcXsrv
• Windows Terminal
• Meslo Nerd Font patched for Powerlevel10k

Windows Terminal

Currently using Preview for Quake mode.

{
    "antialiasingMode": "grayscale",
    "backgroundImage": null,
    "bellStyle": "visual",
    "colorScheme": "MaterialDarker",
    "cursorShape": "vintage",
    "fontFace": "MesloLGS NF",
    "guid": "{7f586916-8357-53d4-bb2b-ca96f639898a}",
    "hidden": false,
    "name": "Pengwin",
    "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl",
    "startingDirectory": "\\\\wsl$\\WLinux\\home\\panat"
},

pengwin-setup

• Editors
  • Neovim
• GUI
  • GUI Lib
  • High DPI
  • Synaptic package manager
  • X410
• Programming
  • C++
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Python with Pip
• Settings
  • Shells
    • zsh with oh-my-zsh
• Tools
  • Docker
    • Expose daemon in Docker Desktop
    • Change mount point from /mnt/c to /c

Zsh setup

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH

Plugins

Using .zsh_plugins.txt and Znap plugin manager. All the configuration is in the .zshrc file.

Plugins Manager

Znap manages cloning and sourcing plugin repositories. My .zshrc is just a bunch of source statements. Plus it works well with OMZ. Care should be taken in the order of zsh-user plugins (competions, syntax-highlighting, history-substring-search, autosuggestions).

Theme

Use znap source powerlevel10k. P10k's instant prompt is slightly faster so I am keeping that at the top.

Tools

Most of them end up as aliases.

• micro editor
  • apt install micro
• tealdeer: tldr man pages in rust
  • cargo install tealdeer
• exa: replacement for ls
  • apt install exa
• lazygit: git TUI
• ranger: file manager TUI
• bat: cat alternative
  • apt install bat
  • TODO check out bat-extras
• ripgrep: fast grep
• fd: fast find

Other cool TUIs

• ticker: stock watcher
• bottom: activity monitor
• glow: markdown renderer
• mutt: email client
• weechat: IRC
• wttr.in: weather
• bit: git CLI autosuggestions
• navi: cheatsheets
• delta: diff viewer cargo install git-delta