My .dotfiles for ViM, DWM, zsh, alacritty for linux based distributions. For all my programs and shell, I mainly use solarized colors and Inconsolata font.
- ViM decent version, does not require any interpreters like ruby or python. Run make vim to compile with python2 support. When python is available YouCompleteMe autocompletion plugin will be plugged, otherwise supertab, which is less powerful.
- git to manage modules and install vim
- zsh if used as a default shell client
- wget to download fonts
- 256 color terminal client for the best experience, consider st or urxvt
To install dmenu as application launcher:
git clone https://github.com/l3pp4rd/dmenu.git ~/.dmenu && cd ~/.dmenu
You most probably need to change the X11 lib header file location if you are not using arch linux:
vim config.mk
make
sudo make install # will install it in /usr/local/bin
To prevent ruby dependencies, I manage my tmux sessions with tmuxstart. Before that I was using tmuxinator. One session example is ~/.dotfiles/tmuxstart/dotfiles. There is a dmenu executable to run workspace switch.
Clone the repository:
clone git://github.com/l3pp4rd/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
You should consider reading about tmux (terminal session manager) and install it. tmuxstart is also a handy tool to be used with tmux. If you use st tmux will provide tabs and history scrolling support. Mouse scroll in urxvt suck and most of the times, tabs and history scrolling are not working well as general terminal features. So lets just follow UNIX philosophy and install tmux which is a tool built to handle it.
If you do not use zsh ignore the .zshrc installation, otherwise you could try to use it instead of bash - install zsh first and use it as your default shell by running:
chsh -s $(which zsh)
A python and X support may be useful in most cases to have with vim. X support will allow to copy and paste from the same buffer and with python come some useful plugins. Anyway it is not necessary to compile vim on your own to setup these dotfiles, usually python is builtin, but if you do:
make vim
WARNING: analyze Makefile before you execute it, this will force symlinks for various dotfiles like gitconfig. Make sure to update for your needs..
make
To update git modules, fonts and vim plugins from time to time:
make update
NOTE: most configurations use Inconsolata fonts, you should install or change it.
This fancy statusbar has now separate repository. You can choose something else based on your preference or windows manager.
If you are tired of bloated desktops like gnome, kde.. whatever, would recommend to try dwm
NOTE: look how to manage it as an xsession in order to provide a possibility to be used inline with a login manager like slim.
- 2020-08-09 - switch Ctrlp to FZF in vim
- 2020-08-08 - removed syntastic, add alacritty config, fixes python dependency in vimrc
- 2016-07-11 - plugins and modules were updated, was not compatible anymore with the upstream.
- 2015-12-15 - Makefile has update or install command.
- 2015-05-24 - switched tmuxinator to tmuxstart, does not require ruby
- 2015-05-10 - switched vim plugin manager to vim-plug
- 2015-04-16 - Makefile for setup and updates
- 2014-05-31 - ViM does not depend on any interpreters. Restructured files
- 2014-04-13 - refactored zsh configuration, to reuse core oh-my-zsh loading features
- 2013-12-20 - switched from pathogen to vundle
- 2013-12-20 - switched powerline to airline, does not require big python setup