.dotfiles

Welcome to ivuorinen's .dotfiles repository. It's a hodgepodge of scripts and configurations, tests and mistakes I'm not aware of yet. As I find more interesting tools, configs and other stuff, this repository will live accordingly.

Please for the love of everything good do not use these 1:1 as your own dotfiles, fork or download the repo as a zip and go from there with your own configs.

Setup

First time setup

1. Clone this repository to $HOME/.dotfiles
2. ./install
3. ???
4. Profit

Interesting files and locations

Interesting folders

Path	Description
.github	GitHub Repository configuration files.
hosts/{hostname}/	Configs that should apply to that host only.
local/bin	Helper scripts that I've collected or wrote.
scripts	Setup scripts.

dotfile folders

Repo	Destination	Description
base/	.*	$HOME level files.
config/	.config/	Configurations for applications.
local/	.local/	XDG Base folder: bin, share and state
ssh/	.ssh/	SSH Configurations.

dfm - the dotfiles manager

.local/bin/dfm is a shell script that has some tools that help with dotfiles management.

Configuration

The folder structure follows XDG Base Directory Specification where possible.

XDG Variables

Var	Default
$XDG_DATA_HOME	$HOME/.local/share
$XDG_STATE_HOME	$HOME/.local/state
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME	$HOME/.config
$XDG_BIN_HOME	$HOME/.local/bin

• $XDG_BIN_HOME is a custom env for .local/bin folder.
• $XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.
• $XDG_STATE_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user-specific state files should be stored. If $XDG_STATE_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/state should be used.
• The $XDG_STATE_HOME contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME. It may contain:
  • actions history (logs, history, recently used files, …)
  • current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)
• User-specific executable files may be stored in $HOME/.local/bin. Distributions should ensure this directory shows up in the UNIX $PATH environment variable, at an appropriate place.
• $XDG_DATA_DIRS defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the $XDG_DATA_HOME base directory. The directories in $XDG_DATA_DIRS should be seperated with a colon ':'.

Interesting links

Interesting dotfiles repos

• dotfiles.github.io/inspiration/
• frdmn/dotfiles - Ansible-based dotfile setup for macOS
• mvdan/dotfiles - Here be dragons
• vsouza/dotfiles - 🏡 My dotfiles
• freekmurze/dotfiles - My personal dotfiles