Dot Files

This repo contains:

• My dotfiles and various configs
• Nix-flake-based home-manager configurations for installing it all (multiple flavors)
• A Dockerfile that builds a few flavors of development containers based on the above

It's not really just dotfiles anymore but...

Guiding Principles

• Linking - Symlinks over copying
• Public - Private keys and licenses are separate.
• Reproducible - home-manager does 97% of the heavy lifting
• Multi-environment - There are multiple home-manager profiles that can be used

Flavors

bare

Bare essentials for servers

• fd - for file searching
• micro-editor + many customizations - for terminal IDE
• other small, expected utilities

desktop-niri

Main desktop, using the Niri window manager

• firefox + configuration
• niri - window manager
  • • waybar - for taskbar
  • • niri_window_buttons - for taskbar windows in sort order
  • • nirimon - to configure displays
  • • fuzzel - for launcher
  • • swaybg - for backdrops
  • • grim + slurp + satty - for screenshot editing, replaces Flameshot for me
• activitywatch + watchers
• kmonad + configuration for custom macro pad inputs
• sublime text + packages configured through Nix
• other utilities

desktop-x11-generic

legacy, might use again, who knows

claude

legacy

Usage (from a bare system)

cd ~
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git
git clone https://gitdab.com/cobertos/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles

# Installs nix
./dev.sh
# Run home-manager (replace <flavor> with one of "bare","desktop-niri", etc...)
nix run home-manager/master -- switch -b backup --flake .#<flavor>
# Run activitywatch target if not relogging
systemctl --user start activitywatch.target

and then there are some manual steps:

• Firefox
  • Install extensions

TODO: Future Support

• Loose ends: Need to install nemo (file manager), gtk (+gtk configs)
• Blender
• OBS (and prefs to record into Seafile?)
• Voicemeeter Banana (Linux / Ubuntu equivalent?)
• Setup correct file associations (for .xml, .html, etc...)
• VLC Plugins
• Audacity and configurations
• /etc/hosts and C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts or wherever it is in Windows
• Seafile notifications disabling?
• Configure keybindings (like for flameshot)
• Make findcode better/nicer. Can we have some sort of indexing search?
• Put Userscripts for Tampermonkey in here (or maybe submodule? would be nice to use their WebDAV interface)
• Migrate from old computer
  • Insomnia configs (all the sqlite databases in Insomnia's home directory)
  • .ssh keys
  • Any environment variables holding keys
  • Firefox/Chrome/wherever history
• Setup filesystem favorites
• Add all my wallpapers
• Make wallpapers rotate

Historical versions of the dotfiles

• when they worked using a custom Python library
• when they were all Ansible
• when they were mainly Windows-based dotfiles