Xorg reorganization [UNTESTED]
Lots of little things
Decreased Xterm font size
My personal configuration files. I've put effort into making my setup reasonably modular and portable. So far it's been tested on Arch GNU+Linux, MacOS, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD.
The information in this file is probably out of date.
I manage these as a farm of symlinks using GNU Stow. Each directory (or package) contains a number of files or directories for which stow creates corresponding links in my home directory. For example:
% cd dotfiles/
% ls -A shells/
.profile .shrc
% stow -t ~ shells
% ls -la ~
<snip>
<snip> .profile -> dotfiles/shells/.profile
<snip> .shrc -> dotfiles/shells/.shrc
<snip>
I sometimes like to reorganise this repository for fun, so this might not be accurate:
I keep a clean ~. A significant portion of my shell configuration is
dedicated to telling wayward programs to look for their files in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
.
I have a kinda cool but also really dumb polyglot shell configuration.
The file ~/.profile is read at login by the Korn shell and the Bourne
shell. It primarily contains portable environment declarations that I
think should work on any Posix-superset shell. Because ~/.profile is
only read by ksh and sh, if $SHELL
is set to bash or zsh the symlink
should be renamed accordingly:
% [ $(basename $SHELL) = zsh ] && mv .profile .zprofile
% [ $(basename $SHELL) = bash ] && mv .profile .bash_profile
The file ~/.shrc is a weird multi-shell polyglot file that is run in
non-login shells. For sh and ksh it is set as the value of the $ENV
variable and ran. For bash and zsh the symlink should be renamed:
% [ $(basename $SHELL) = zsh ] && mv .shrc .zshrc
% [ $(basename $SHELL) = bash ] && mv .shrc .bashrc
This works perfectly for zsh and OpenBSD ksh, and require some tweaks
under bash. It sort-of works for dash and FreeBSD's /bin/sh
, though
those require more work. At some point I'll test it with Busybox's ash
and the other Korn shells like pdksh and mksh.
Note that this won't work with shells like csh, tcsh, Plan 9 rc, Nu, and Fish that aren't derived directly from the Bourne Shell.
I keep my Emacs config in ~/.config/emacs instead of ~/.emacs.d, which only works for version >27. To work with older versions of Emacs a symlink is required:
ln -s ~/.emacs.d ~/.config/emacs
I like to use Emacs for weird things like email and pdf previews of LaTeX documents, so my configuration relies on some external packages like imagemagick, texlive, gpg, pass, and mu4e.
My configuration heavily depends on melpa packages like AucTeX and
Evil Mode, so M-x package-refresh-contents
and M-x package-install-selected-packages
are required.
Additionally, in order to do email in emacs I need things that I don't keep in this repository like my password-store and external programs like protonmail-bridge.
I prefer neovim to vim, but I think this configuration should work
with plain old vim provided that ~/.profile exists with $VIMINIT
set
to the right file.
Because I'm a pathological WM hopper and I keep my things under git,
the bulk of my X configuration (programs I want started and stuff)
live in the file symlinked to by ~/.xprofile. This is called by
~/.xinitrc, just before the exec foo
directive. I really need to
figure out a better way of doing that. The ly display manager with
it's DOOM-like ansi flames looks promising.
I'm hoping that FVWM holds a cure for my addiction.
I haven't been memed into switching to Wayland yet, but if/when I do I'll have to figure out a way of automatically calling/filtering ~/.xprofile.
Xresources and stuff live in ~/.config/xresources, which may be an issue for some programs. I haven't encountered any though.
The XDG utils and specifications are generally stupid and obtuse, so my configurations for URL scheme handlers and default applications are probably fragile.