.minimics

A pywal based desktop environment

Use at your own risk

How to use and not to use this repository

I recommend you NOT to use this repository, but to build your own fork with your own settings. This repository is not maintained for stability but only to fulfill my needs at a specific moment, on various computers. My current computers where I use .minimics are:

• a Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows 11
• Multiple Archlinux, graphic and non graphic
• Raspberry Pi with multiple distros
• MacOSX High Sierra
• A phone with Termux

If you just plan to git clone and say yolo as many of my friends did over these last 10 years, please make sure to run setup.sh or replace manually my name in .gitconfig file... :)

Content

This bundle contains:

• Git dotfile model (you should customize it with setup script or edit the file)
• NeoVim configuration with a lot of useful plugins.
• ZSH configuration files with oh-my-zsh autoinstall
• Custom aliases and local aliases support in ~/.aliases.local
• i3 configuration files
• other X and Archlinux related configuration
  • a custom lockscreen
  • ctags
  • dunst
  • picom
  • polybar
  • rofi
  • some usefull scripts in bin/
• pywal16 wrapper and custom colorschemes

Everything is built around pywal or pywal16 for color selection.

Installation

.minimics is very easy to install. You just need to have git installed on you system. There is an autoinstall script in your .minimics folder. To install, just perform :

git clone https://github.com/uZer/.minimics.git ~/.minimics
~/.minimics/setup.sh

A backup of your old configuration files is automatically made in your minimics folder.

If you plan to use minimics for neovim or a desktop/i3 environment, you will have extra packages to compile/install. (TODO: a list of dependencies)

Usage and configuration

pywal16

I recommend you to use the pywal16 fork.

NeoVim

See init.nvim.

The lua configuration is splitted, you may find useful information in various files. Install dependencies with :PackerSync and :MasonInstallAll

Bash

I don't use bash except for copy pasting stuff, so my bashrc is minimal.

ZSH

Using oh-my-zsh bundle and custom aliases.

Also using powerline zsh configuration file, if you don't have any powerline installed please comment the appropriated line in your .zshrc

Git config

See the .gitconfig file in your home directory for usefull git shocuts. Please make sure you changed the name of your user in your gitrc file

Colors

If you use solarized terminal configurations, you can enable solarized colors in the setup script (comment or uncomment the variables). At any time if your unhappy with some color configuration, you can edit the configuration.

Uninstall

If for any reason you want to uninstall .minimics partially or completely, you just have to unlink the unwanted configuration files in your home directory.

unlink ~/.bashrc