Chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple machines, securely and is available on windows, macOS and almost all unix like distributions via your package manager.
sudo pacman -S chezmoibrew install chezmoi
or clone it from source and build it yourself.
These dots are inspired by Cobal2 by Wesbos and special thanks goes to Aditya Shakya for his enthusiasm for ricing Unix-based system.
Note: This repository is tuned to Arch. Yes, i use Arch, btw!
sudo, user have permission to install the packages:
# EDITOR="vim" visudo
username ALL=(ALL) ALL
If you are installing this on a new machine, make sure, to configure (via: useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,video username), logout and initialize this environment correctly.
| name | WTF | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pulseaudio | Audio Driver | Know more about pulseaudio on arch wiki. |
| i3 | Windows Manager | pacman -S i3-gaps |
| Polybar | Status Bar | polybar is a easy-to-use status bar |
| Rofi | Dmenu | Rofi: window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement |
| google-chrome-stable | Web Browser | Yes, i use a memory hogger! |
| feh | Image Viewer | sudo pacman -S feh |
| betterlockscreen | Lock Screen | betterlockscreen is just amazing! |
| lightdm | Display Manager | lightdm-gtk-greeter |
| mpd | Music Player Daemon | With ncmpcpp, mpc |
| mpv, VLC | Video Players | sudo pacman -S vlc |
| picom-ibhagwan-git | Compositor | compton with dual-kawase base |
| scrot | Screen Capture | sudo pacman -S scrot |
| ranger | CLI based File Manager | ranger is a console based file manager written in python |
| vim | Editor | I've attached my own vimrc config |
| kitty | Terminal | kitty is designed for power keyboard users |
| Yay | AUR helper | yay, an AUR helper giving access to aur. |
| zsh | Shell | Plugins: oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k |
| dunst | notification daemon | It's a light weight & ricing friendly notification daemon dunst |
chezmoi stores the desired state of your dotfiles in ~/.local/share/chezmoi or $XDG_DATA_HOME.
- Initialize with chezmoi using
chezmoi init https://github.com/raunaktr/dotfiles.git
- Make changes in your template before you move forward:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml
this will also make changes in file to ~/.config/git/config file.
- Apply the configurations
chezmoi apply
Voila! You've have successfully deployed the dotfiles.
Now, Edit dots using edit while specifying full path of the file
chezmoi edit ~/path/to/file
See what changes chezmoi would make:
chezmoi diff
Apply the changes using chezmoi -v apply, -v flag is for verbose.
Update your configs using
chezmoi update
For further details use chezmoi help or refer to chezmoi.
For any questions, comments, feedback or issues, submit a new issue.