dotfiles

They're managed using GNU stow.

Intro

The legend goes that dot-files arose from a bug in the earliest days of UNIX: in an effort to avoid listing the . and .. entries of a directory, the ls command skipped files that began with the '.' character. As a result, any file with a name beginning with '.' was not reported by ls, i.e. it was a "hidden" file. A user's home directory was a convenient place to put user-specific configuration files, but such files were also an eyesore; one popular solution to this problem was to make those configuration files hidden so that they wouldn't annoy the user. Thus, the tradition of dot-files was born. From Quora

What is a Rice?

"Rice" is a word that is commonly used to refer to making visual improvements and customizations on one's desktop. It was inherited from the practice of customizing cheap Asian import cars to make them appear to be faster than they actually were - which was also known as "ricing". From /r/unixporn

Programs

Role	Program
Display Manager	LightDM
Greeter	LightDM GTK+ Greeter
Terminal Emulator	URxvt
Shell	Bash
Application Launcher	xfce4-appfinder
Web Browser	Firefox
Mail Reader	Claws Mail
File Manager	Thunar
Image Viewer	Sxiv
Screen Capture	Scrot
Document Viewer	Evince
Clipboard Manager	ClipIt
Calculator	galculator

Xfce Keyboard Shortcuts

Key Binding	Associated Action	Category
super + R	Open the Application Finder	General
super + E	Display Thunar File Manager	General
super + T	Open the Terminal Emulator (urxvt)	General
super + L	Lock the screen	General
super + D	Show desktop	General

sxhkd key bindings

Key Binding	Associated Action	Category
super + Escape	Reload sxhkd configuration's file	General
super + Return	Open a new terminal	General
super + slash	Open the Application Finder	General
super + l	Lock the screen	General
super + shift + q	Quit bspwm	BSPWM
super + shift + r	Restart bspwm	BSPWM

Installation

Before installing, be sure to read useful cowboy gently-worded note and this excellent article by Anish Athalye: Dotfiles are NOT meant to be forked. That said, let's go with the installation:

1. Install GNU Stow: GNU Stow is available for all GNU+Linux distros and most other unix-like distributions via your package manager.

   Ubuntu: sudo apt install stow Arch: sudo pacman -S stow Mac: brew install stow

2. Clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tfarina/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles && cd ~/dotfiles

3. Symlink with GNU Stow the folder(s) you want to your home: To install most of my dotfiles you execute stow with the folder name as the only argument. For example, to install my sxhkd and my zshrc config use the command:

$ stow -v -t ~/ -S sxhkd
$ stow -v -t ~/ -S zsh
$ stow -v -t ~/ -S whatever-dotfile-you-want

This will symlink files to ~/.config/sxhkd/, ~/.zshrc, etc.