Coko7 / .dotfiles

All the .dotfiles that I use for my Linux config

.dotfiles

All my Linux configuration files. I use this to configure my entire system.

🐧 System setup

• Operating system: Arch Linux
• Display server: Xorg
• Window manager: awesome
• Application launcher: Rofi (also using emoji and calc)
• Compositor: picom
• Shell: Zsh (with Starship for my prompt)
• Terminals:
  • Alacritty
  • Konsole
• Text/code editor: Neovim (using kickstart)
• Audio:
  • Drivers and interface: ALSA
  • Sound server: PipeWire
  • GUI apps:
    • PulseAudio Volume Control for simple audio control
    • QjackCtl for advanced audio stuff
• Theming:
  • Catpuccin Mocha for my color scheme (I also use Rigel sometimes)
  • LXAppearance to configure my GTK theme
  • Qt5ct for apps that use QT toolkit (KDE apps)

🖥️ Desktop applications

🚨	I try to limit myself to only use FLOSS software. If you are interested, I recommend you to check the following websites: Privacy Tools Privacy Guides The New Oil

Anyway, here are the desktop apps I most commonly use:

• Browser: Firefox
• Communication:
  • Messaging: Signal
  • Discord client: Webcord
• File managers:
  • Dolphin
  • Nemo
  • ranger (terminal-based)
• Images
  • Drawing: Krita
  • Editing: Gimp
  • Vewing: feh
• Network:
  • Synchronization: Syncthing
  • VPN: OpenVPN
• Office:
  • ONLYOFFICE for my Office suite
  • Joplin for taking notes (uses Markdown)
• Screenshots: Flameshot
• Torrent: qBittorrent
• Videos:
  • Editing: Kdenlive
  • Viewing: mpv
  • YouTube client: FreeTube

✨ Inspiration

I did not make all of this myself. I am mainly tweaking existing configs from other people:

• Phantas0s: Solid Zsh setup (without omz) and overall nice directory structure (Blog: The Valuable Dev)
• BrodieRobertson: Automatic sourcing of aliases (Youtube: Brodie Robertson)
• Derek Taylor: Offers great advice on how to manage dotfiles (Youtube: DistroTube)
• ThePrimeagen: Tailored tmux/vim/fzf tools for a highly productive development workflow (Twitch, Youtube, Youtube 2)