README

This is my .dotfiles project.

Your dotfiles define how you personalize your system.

It is tuned for Ubuntu Linux with XFCE on it / Xubuntu distro.

It looks as follows:

Features

• organized shell aliases and functions to help me with the commands (and its flags) that I often find useful
• handy docs and code snippets I often need & forget
• settings of XFCE4 window manager that suit daily life and work (task oriented using workspaces)
• handy markdown based notes, editable via vim (called topics)
  • syntax highlighting optimized for taking fast notes (todos, conclussions, references, simple calculations, etc.)
  • create (in a single command) a name & dated note
  • create a Scrum daily report, with a customizable template
  • same way create a Scrum retrospective document
  • same way create meeting minutes document
  • publish any note / topic into Confluence or Google Keep
• relies on Ulauncher for quick application starts
  • can launch commands or aliases from it
  • can be easily customized to open predefined pre-filled URLs
• named workspace oriented window manager
  • workspace name can be easily modified with a few keystrokes
  • workspace name is part of command history
• smart history that keeps full context of command executed (date, time, id of the console, id of the workspace, directory)
• full integration with fzf
  • perform cd / go to a directory in a few keystrokes (stop typing cds in the console)
  • history search using fzf and set command into console for modification / execution
  • topic / notes search using fzf
  • code snippets search using fzf
  • 
  • ...
• and more!

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/mauriciojost/dotfiles.git
mv dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
cd $HOME/.dotfiles
./install.sh

All files in this repo whose name ends in .symlink will be symlinked to $HOME. All the files whose name ends in .configlink will be symlinked to $HOME/.config/ .

References

See these slides I wrote to explain a bit what dotfiles are and why you may be interested.