~/.dotfiles

Some of the worthy tools that I use:

☑ A common color scheme for nvim, terminal and i3 itself.

It is called Gruvbox dark.

☑ Unobtrusive and minimalistic design of i3, py3status and terminal.

Display only actionable items, use color to highlight importance, slightly dim inactive windows.

☑ True Color support everywhere.

Including alacritty, neovim, tmux; ranger can even display picture previews.

☑ Almost instant terminal startup.

And yet it is empowered with tmux, antigen, prezto and other plugins.

☑ Automatically start tmux in every terminal window:

On local host, every terminal starts in its own tmux session.

This allows running multiple independent tmux windows in every terminal window.
On remote host, every connection joins the same single tmux session

This makes it easy to reconnect after a network failure, your work stays as you left it.
Speed-up terminal startup by ensuring that there always is an alive tmux session.

It takes tmux much longer to start the first session than to start every consequent one.

☑ More secure gpg and ssh configuration.

Stronger algorithms, more sensible defaults.

☑ gpg-agent configured to act as ssh-agent.

Extremely nicely integrated with YubiKey, with forwarding to selected remote hosts.

☑ i3 automatically renames workspaces to show currently opened apps.

Using iconic font to fit a lot of info even on laptop screens.

☑ Automatically renumber tmux sessions.

Helps when terminals are being opened & closed a lot during the day.

☑ Automatically change terminal's background color based on the ssh host.

Terminal turns red when you are on production, yellow on staging, etc.

☑ Show desktop notifications from remote hosts.

When a remote host triggers notify-send, a notification will appear on the local host.

☑ Remember brightness levels on battery and on AC, restore last value when power source changes.

Useful for automatically dimming screen when switching to battery power.

☑ Automatically connect to VPN on selected networks.

Comes bundled with a script to prevent DNS leaks on NetworkManager.

☑ Lazy sourcing scripts to speedup terminal startup.

This is useful for rvm, source it the first time you use rvm command.

☑ Automatically backup the list of installed packages (pacman and AUR).

These files are used to bootstrap the new system, all apps are installed in one command.

☑ Setup script that configures user and system dotfiles, systemd services and other little things.

This script is safe to re-run at any time.

☑ Compete and very detailed installation instructions for Arch Linux.

Step-by-step description of how I install Arch Linux from scratch.

$ git clone https://github.com/alex/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
$ ~/.dotfiles/setup.sh

chromium-vaapi and chromium-vaapi-bin - chromium with hardware video acceleration.
ttf-emojione - latest EmojiOne font that provides colorful emojis for almost all apps on Linux.
yubikey-touch-detector - a tool that can detect when your YubiKey is waiting for a touch.
browserpass - browser extension for pass and gopass.
wire-desktop and wire-desktop-beta - end-to-end encrypted chat app.
cerebro - application launcher with many awesome plugins.
rmtrash - trash bin for CLI made compatible to GNUs rm and rmdir.
snap-pac-grub - updates GRUB for grub-btrfs with snapshots made by snap-pac.