Welcome to my dotfiles

Feel free to copy whatever you like from my current setup. I spend some time to make everything look coherent, so if you have any questions just let me know.

Philosophy

I also try to keep my $HOME as clean as possible and therefor stick to the XDG-Base-Configuration. As a suckless-enthusiast I primarily use software, that follows a minimalistic approach and does the job. Software that comes with alot of external dependencies often tends to be bloated in my eyes, so I try to avoid that and simply stick to something more simplistic (emacs is a good example here).

Software

This is an uncompleted list of software, that I use on a daily base:

• vis (text editor based on sam)
• dwm (suckless window manager)
• dmenu (suckless launcher)
• dwmblocks (suckless statusbar)
• fzf (fuzzy match finder)
• irssi (IRC client)
• mpd/ncmpcpp (music player)
• mpv (video player)
• ranger/w3m (terminal filemanager)
• sxiv (image viewer)
• tmux (terminal multiplexer)

Setup

I keep scripts that I find useful in .local/bin/. Config files are stored in .config/. I am able to source my bashrc from there aswell by using the following if-statement in /etc/bash.bashrc:

if [ -s "$HOME/.config/bash/bashrc" ]; then
  . "$HOME/.config/bash/bashrc"
fi 

Theming and startup

While I enjoy the solarized-light theme, I dislike some of the color choices that come with it. Thats why I made a less colorized version of it. Every information about it is stored in .config/X11/xressources and .config/X11/xinitrc contains all the necessary programs that get executed once X is started. Imagemagick has some nice options to determine the most prominent colors of certain wallpapers, so I might write something in the near future to automatically pipe those informations to update a theme via xrdb -m.

Inspiration

• suckless.org - software that sucks less
• fsf - Free Software Foundation
• libreboot - freedom-respecting boot firmware
• parabola - free, simple, and lightweight operating system

Installation

Make sure to backup your most important files before cloning this repository to your machine. I take no responsibility for any loss of data or damage, that might occur - you have been warned:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/cp00-home/dotfiles.git

That’s all folks - have a good one!