Dotfiles

About

This repository contains my personal configuration files (dotfiles) which I mainly manage with GNU Stow. Feel free to be inspired by them and use parts of it. The color scheme I use is Catppuccin Mocha.

Links to my files within this repository are written like this, while external links are written like this.

• etc contains dotfiles for my /etc directory.
• home contains dotfiles for my $HOME directory.
• packages contains a list of my installed packages.
• laptop contains dotfiles for my laptop.
• scripts contains scripts for this repository.
• vsc contains dotfiles for the Vienna Scientific Cluster (server)

Installation and Setup

git clone https://github.com/frankebel/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./install.sh

Suggestions when asked for packages:

• jack: pipewire-jack
• pipewire-session-manager: wireplumber
• vulkan-driver: on AMD use vulkan-radeon

Set up sleep, hibernation in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf.

Only update home dotfiles

cd ~/.dotfiles
stow home

Software I use

Type	Name	Repository	Config
Operating System	Arch Linux	GitLab
Compositor	Hyprland	GitHub	hypr
Shell	Zsh	GitHub	zsh
Shell Prompt	Starship	GitHub	starship
Terminal Emulator	kitty	GitHub	kitty
Application Launcher	Wofi	sourcehut	wofi
Color Scheme	Catppuccin Mocha	GitHub
Browser	Firefox
Editor	Neovim	GitHub	nvim
Font	Noto Sans Mono	GitHub
Image Viewer	imv	sourcehut	imv
Mail	Neomutt	GitHub	neomutt
Mailbox Synchronization	isync		isync
Media Player	mpv	GitHub	mpv
Notifications	dunst	GitHub	dunst
PDF Viewer	zathura	GitLab	zathura
Encryption	GnuPG		gnupg
Password Manager	pass	Repo
RSS Reader	Newsboat		newsboat
Screenshots	grim	sourcehut

Explanation about software

If possible I try to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification. For software which does not follow it, I try to export the environment variables in environment.

Compositor

Since I like the tiling workflow and want to use Wayland, Hyprland is my Wayland compositor of choice. For the status bar I run Waybar.

Calendar and contacts

I use pimsync to sync my calendar and contacts. The calendar is accessed with khal while contacts are accessed with khard.

Mail

I use isync to synchronize my local mailbox. Go IMAP notify is running in the background using IMAP IDLE. To read mails in the command line neomutt is used.

RSS

Newsboat is my terminal RSS Reader of choice. Videos can be directly viewed with mpv.

Editor

I use Neovim as my text editor. As I use lazy.nvim as my package manager, the list of installed plugins can be viewed in lazy-lock.json. Further information can be read here.

Operating System

I use Arch Linux for my operating system as I like their simple and pragmatic approach. I created an installation script archinstall for faster setup.

Password Management

I use pass and pass-otp to store and manage my passwords. It is set up as a git repository containing *.gpg files which makes version control very easy. To quickly retrieve and enter my credentials, I use tessen.

Scripts

Scripts I wrote are in home/.local/bin.