My Dotfiles

This is the collection of dotfiles that I use on my laptop for ricing pourposes

Getting Started

Most of these files will go in your home directory. See Installing for a brief description of where to put each file in this repository.

Prerequisites

You should know how linux works at least a little bit, but you can use this setup as your starting point, so Bash is a must. I use Slackware since 2006, so you'll have to adapt everything if you're using another distro. As for the software used here you have it:

• i3 - My window manager of choice.
• feh - wallpaper setter. Fast and lightweight.
• rofi - Extremely customizable dmenu replacement, I use the git version.
• picom - Lightweight compositor.
• polybar - Lightweight but highly configurable bar.
• pywal - generate and change color schemes based on your wallpaper

Installing

You can rename the home-bin directory to /home/youruser/bin and that's where we'll store all executables, so you may want to add it to your path, otherwhise you could use something like /usr/local/bin, but make sure to fix every reference to your executables in the other files.

The home-config directory can be renamed to ~/.config, this is standard and you shouldn't have any problems with it. If you already have one, simply copy the content to your folder.

The tmux folder can be moved as-is in your home and made hidden by prepending a dot in front of the name. If you already have a folder, simply move the config file in it.

Inside the system-etc directory you'll find files that go in /etc and are system-wide files. Feel free to modify whatever you want.

Xresources, bash_profile, bashrc and xinitrc are all hidden files and you should place them in your home prepending a dot to their names, so everything should look like this:

$> ls /home/danix
.Xresources
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.xinitrc
[...]

Here's how it looks for me on a fresh install:

$> tree /home/danix
├── .Xresources
├── .bash_profile
├── .bashrc
├── bin/
│   ├── blackpearl-appsmenu.sh
│   ├── blackpearl-powermenu.sh
│   └── [...]
├── .config/
│   ├── i3/
│   |   └── config
│   ├── rofi/
│   |   └── [...]
│   ├── picom/
│   |   └── [...]
│   ├── polybar/
│   |   └── [...]
│   └── wal/
│       └── [...]
├── .tmux/
│   ├── tmux.conf.danix
│   └── [...]
├── [...]
└── .xinitrc

Authors

• danix - danix.xyz

License and Acknowledgments

This project is free to use as it is, if you need help you can contact me on my site and I'll try and help you, but you maybe luckier asking your questions on the unixporn thread on reddit, which is where I found the inspiration and most of the links to make all this work.