dotfiles/README.md

Dot Files

systemctl --user start activitywatch.target

This repo contains:

• My home-manager configuration as a nix flake
• My dotfiles and various configs
• A dockerfile that builds an isolated development container with home-manager, nix, and my dotfiles in various flavors

Are these really just dotfiles anymore...?

Guiding Principles

• Linking - Symlinks over copying
• Public - Private keys and licenses are separate.
• Reproducible - home-manager does so much heavy lifting and there's only a few manual tweaks.
• Multi-environment - There are multiple home-manager profiles that can be used

Software

Deep configurations for:

• micro-editor (instead of Sublime Text)
• git
• bash
• firefox
• fd

Other installed software:

• flameshot
• ffmpeg
• activitywatch

Usage (from a bare system)

cd ~
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/Cobertos/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles

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

Manual steps

• Firefox
  • Install extensions
• 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

Linux specific manually

• Configure Linux Mint Desktop
  • Change the theme to Dark (for Window borders, controls, and desktop)
  • Change wallpapers/backgrouns to the folder that has them all in it
  • Add a panel to every monitor, without grouped list applet merging and with window titles
  • Change the Linux Mint start menu icon

TODO: Future Support

• 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
• Make sure that Chrome/Firefox syncs settings for refined GitHub (looks like it worked)
• /etc/hosts and C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts or wherever it is in Windows
• Seafile notifications disabling?
• Configure keybindings (like for flameshot)
• Add a little indicator to PS1 when dotfiles is out of date
• 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)
• Switch pip over to use the --user flag, or make it an option? Not sure what pipx needs?

Historical versions of the dotfiles

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