/dotfiles-wsl

Legacy dotfiles for general usage and Ruby/Elixir development on WSL

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Dotfiles

This repo contains my dotfiles and install scripts.

Currently made with Debian/Ubuntu on Windows 10 (WSL) in mind.

Supports native Debian/Ubuntu but is untested.

Scripts will install:

  • NeoVim + Plugins
  • ImageMagick
  • Yarn
  • Nginx
  • Postgresql
  • Zsh + Zplug
  • Tmux
  • Python
  • Redis
  • Silver Searcher (ag)
  • Midnight Commander
  • Asdf version manager to manage Ruby and Elixir
  • NodeJS
  • Ruby
  • Erlang
  • Elixir

The install-apt which is called from the install when Debian/Ubuntu is detected will also detect if it is running under WSL. If so, it will install applications on the Windows side:

  • Chromedriver + chromedriver command on WSL linking to the .exe (for acceptance tests started from WSL)
  • Wsltty + Config + Gruvbox scheme + Shortcut to WSL in Start (Starts tmux with zsh)

Running the script

The script requires root and will ask for the root password by itself, don't start the script as root, use your normal user

cd ~
git clone git@github.com:Kuret/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
chmod +x install
./install

Permissions

  • Script for Debian/Ubuntu will disable password check for sudo for the current user, if this is not desirable edit install-apt and comment out the relevant lines.

Windows Subsystem For Linux Setup

Activate the WSL in windows:

  • Make sure you are running a Windows 10 build with Windows Store support for WSL (build 16215+)

  • Open powershell as administrator and run commands

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser
iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

scoop install postgresql
scoop install chromedriver # if you need it for acceptance tests

# obviously dont just create passwordless superusers in a production environment
createuser -s postgres
createuser -s <your_linux_username>

# start postgresql
pg_ctl start

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

  • Go to the Windows store and install the package Debian or Ubuntu

  • Run the user setup and set your username and passwords

  • If using a terminal emulator I would highly recommend https://github.com/mintty/wsltty (installed with the included script)

Open links on the Windows host

The bin folder contains the script wsl-browser-bridge which opens links on the Windows host, which does several things:

  • If the supplied path is not found on the client it will assume it is an URL and passes it to the host
  • If the supplied path starts with the /mnt/c/ it will replace that with C:/
  • If the supplied path starts with anything else (like /home/username) it will try to copy the file/folder referenced in the path to C:/temp/ and pass the path to the host
  • Set the BROWSER environment variable to wsl-browser-bridge to set the client's default browser to this script

Beware when trying to open a file in a big folder, it will try to copy over the whole thing to the Windows side.

TODO

  • Support MacOS: Package list for homebrew on MacOS is present but no further work is done there
  • Support for more Linux distributions
  • Support for BSD's
  • Install a session manager, tiling WM and GUI apps when in a non-WSL environment

Issues

  • I'm sure there are, tell me.