My dotfiles configuration for Arch Linux
| Tool | Arch Linux |
|---|---|
| Terminal | Alacritty |
| Shell | zsh |
| Window manager | i3 |
| File manager | Thunar |
| Bar | Polybar |
| Launcher | Rofi |
| Screenshots | Flameshot |
| Lockscreen | betterlockscreen |
| Greeter | SDDM |
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create an alias:
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME' -
ignore the clone folder:
echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore -
Clone the repository:
git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles -
Checkout the actual content form the bare repository into your
$HOME:dotfiles checkout
NOTE: This action might result in an error saying that files would be overwritten. Solution is, firstly backup those files using:
mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
after the backup remove the conflict files and run dotfiles checkout command again.
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Set the flag
showUntrackedFilestonoon this specific (local) repository:dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no -
All done! Now you can manage your dotfiles with git, example:
dotfiles status
dotfiles add .zshrc
dotfiles commit -m "adding .zshrc"
dotfiles push
packages installation script will be added someday :).