I was tired of having a bunch of configurations across all my machines, especially when trying to keep all the plugins and extras up to date. So I got fed up and threw them on GitHub. It's not perfect (yet!), but it's a great starting point for any Linux config.

These configurations are based from an Arch Linux system running i3wm and compton + xterm/zsh, however most of the files should be usable without dependencies on the others.

Releases 2.0+ provide automated install support using my fork of dotbot. See Install for instructions.

• $mod set to Win key
• DejaVu Sans Mono 10 font
• 1px borders
• Improved window movement between outputs ($mod+[ and ])
• Named/numbered workspaces, each with switch and move bindings
• Top hidden bar
• Optionally autostarts (if installed):
  • Clipit
  • Compton
  • Connman-Notify
  • Dunst
  • Nitrogen
  • Synsei
  • Unclutter
  • Xbindkeys

• Ctrl+a prefix
• Enhanced clipboard support
• Mouse support
• Simplified split window bindings
• Vim main keybindings

• 4 spaced tabs
• Autocompletion always on
• Case insensitive search
• Dark background
• Global config base
• Global highlighting of search matches
• Gruvbox theme
• Mouse support
• NERDTree Configuration
• Numbered lines
• Rainbow Parentheses Configuration
• TAB toggles Taglist
• Tons of plugins through Pathogen
• Trailing whitespace highlighting

• Caps Lock remapped to Escape
• DPI set to 96
• Default WM is i3
• Font antialiasing and rgb hinting
• NVIDIA scrolling tweaks when nvidia-settings is installed
• Xbindkeys for volume and brightness controls

• 256 color mode enabled
• 4096 lines saved
• Custom colorscheme
• Inconsolata for Powerline font - size 14 regular
• UTF8 enabled

• $EDITOR is vim
• Aliases file
• Custom $PATH
• Custom prompt with git support
• Scripts folder (~/.zsh.d)
• Syntax highlighting
• Work-in-progress

• ctags(>= 5.0)

• dotbot

• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• z

• ack.vim
• colorizer
• ctrlp.vim
• cup.vim
• gruvbox
• jflex.vim
• molokai
• nerdtree
• php.vim
• powerline-fonts
• rainbow_parentheses.vim
• rust.vim
• syntastic
• taglist.vim
• taglist.vim
• vim-airline
• vim-automplpop
• vim-fugitive
• vim-l9
• vim-latex
• vim-markdown
• vim-pathogen
• vim-sensible
• vim-signify

Clone the repo and its submodules, then install links. The install will not override any configs by default.

git clone https://github.com/csivanich/dotfiles.git && \
cd dotfiles && \
git submodule update --init --recursive && \
./install.sh

If errors occur due to existing files, move them and try again:

mv <config file> <config file>.bak

The install can be retried with ./install.sh

Included is an ./update.sh script which fetches and rebases upstream changes, updates submodules and installs the new configs.

cd /path/to/dotfiles
./update.sh

Or if you don't trust my scripts (why should you?), you can update manually:

git fetch -vp # Update refs
git rebase origin/master # Bring in new changes
git submodule update --init --recursive # Update submodules
./install.sh # Install new configs and clean old ones