bashSettings

Settings of aliases, vim, etc.

How to install vim plugins

$ git clone https://github.com/mirsimko/bashSettings.git

Copy .vimrc and .vim to the home directory

in your home run:

$ cd .vim
$ ./setupVim.sh

To load .Xresources (config for xterm)

$ ./configureXterm.sh

Configuring tmux

Make a link of .tmux.conf in your home in tmux run

$ tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Swapping CapsLock and Escape in the 'US' keyboard layout with Gnome-Shell

This is useful when using vim. Other keyboard layouts other than US stay unaffected. Most Linux distros use xkb, in which it is very easy to make keyboard swaps. A comprehensive guide on how to do that can be found here

First, in the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us add this line in the section "basic"

key <CAPS> { [ Escape ] };

Now, you want to put the settings in effect. Gnome uses its own settings layer on top of XKB (see e.g. this page) so you must specify that you want to use xkb for your chosen layout. In the command line, write

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us'), ('xkb', 'cz')]"
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['caps:swapescape','grp:alt_shift_toggle']"

Now, ESC and CapsLock should be swapped in the US layout. You can add other keyboard layouts (e.g. Japanese Mozc) now.

For colors in less:

In your home, make a link to .lessfilter. Install pygments or python-pygments.