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A place for all my dotfiles and each one in its place.

Installation

curl -sfL https://git.io/JsiiF | sh

For the full setup guide, follow this.

Manage your dotfiles across multiple machines, securely

I use chezmoi to put all my dotfiles into place and make them work across different OS's.

JSON schema for ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.json is available here.

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Share your development and build environments across different machines.

I use Nix (and home-manager) to manage my required packages. Things like neovim, tmux, git, etc. all get installed using nix and are configured by code.

Terminals

Terminal Tested OS Managed config Notes
Kitty - Preferred
  • MacOS
  • Chrome OS
Yes
  • GPU accelerated
  • Supports ligatures
  • Supports powerline fonts well
Alacritty
  • MacOS
  • Chrome OS
  • Linux
  • Windows
Yes
  • GPU accelerated
  • Very slim feature set (needs tmux)
  • Doesn't support ligatures
  • Doesn't support powerline fonts very well
Windows Terminal
  • Windows
No
  • Works well on windows

Colour scheme

Catppuccin theme for neovim, tmux, kitty, alacritty, etc.

asdf is a great tool for managing multiple versions of the same software, e.g. node, yarn, etc. These work via plugins and it removes the overhead of thinking which version you need and changing to it - it just works. See the installation script for a list of used plugins.

Fonts

To get ligature/italic font support there are a number of steps. You'll want to source a font like JetBrains Mono and install it. If you want icons you'll probably want the Nerd Fonts version.

Updating the font files

For Linux systems which rely on the fonts in dot_local/share/fonts the following script can be run to download the latest font files from Nerd fonts.

./dot_local/share/fonts/update-fonts

# Clean up the old font files
rm ~/.local/share/fonts/JetBrainsMonoNerdFont*

# Apply the new font files
chezmoi apply -v

fc-cache -r

N.B MacOS manages it's fonts through Homebrew.

Windows Utilities

Utility Description
scoop Windows version of homebrew
xdg-open-wsl Make things like vim's MarkdownPreview work
sharpkeys Remap individual keys - useful for HHKB on windows without messing with dip switches
PowerToys Nice tools, good for keyboard chord remapping

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