~/.dotfiles

Some of the worthy tools that I use:

• i3-gaps (window manager) + py3status (status bar)
• kitty (fast GPU-accelerated terminal)
• neovim
• zsh + antigen with prezto and various other plugins

Fun things you can find in this repo:

�?� 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 kitty, 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.

�?� 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.

Installation:

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

Awesome AUR packages that I help maintaining:

• 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.
• 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.