Daniel's Dotfiles

My personal Linux dotfiles.

I use Arch btw.

The root of this repo is equivalent to my $HOME directory.

Note On Keybindings

A note on keybindings: I use Colemak-DH, which is a non-qwerty keyboard layout. I use either MNEI or the arrow keys (which is a mod key + MNEI on my keyboard) for navigation, depending on a few different factors.

If MNEI conflicts with any defaults that would be far too finicky to remap, I just use the arrow keys. Otherwise, I bind MNEI to navigation.

Of Interest

Neovim

Neovim, my beloved.

The best text editor ever made. There's too much going on there to cover here, so I invite you to read my Neovim config README.

Shell

I use Zsh. It has some nice features while remaining POSIX compliance, which is important if you like to tinker and end up copying a lot of shell scripts from the internet. I also use starship for my prompt because it's wicked fast. I find that the pure preset with some minor changes to cwd display is really great for my needs.

ZelliJ

I used to use tmux but I like ZelliJ simply because it's modal and the keybinds are sensible and more extendable.

Terminal

Kitty has been the best terminal for me so far. It displays stuff properly, and is as fast as I need it to be.

i3

I'm using i3 for window management. I have experimented in the past with Hyprland, but I prefer the simplicity of i3.

Launcher

Rofi is my application launcher of choice. It's easy to configure, minimal, and gets out of the way.

Process Viewer

btop works great when ps aux | grep doesn't cut it. It's fast and has a pleasing, intuitive UI. I highly recommend it over both top and htop.

Notifications

Dunst is all I want from a notification manager.

Management

Currently I'm using yadm to manage these dotfiles. I have tried some other solutions like chezmoi and stow, but this one has stuck for me. I highly recommend it.

If you see a file with a weird name, like config##hostname.dbox, it's leveraging yadm's alternate files feature; the program will automatically symlink that file to its appropriate destination depending on which computer it's on.