Dotfiles

Repo containing my dotfiles.

This is a starting point, hopefully i will extend it when i am ready with polybar, rofi, etc...

Dependencies

Text editor: neovim -> nvim
- Plugin manager: vim-plug.
- Code completion engine: Youcompleteme.
Window manager: BSPWM (Binary Space Partitioning Window Manager) the rounded corner edition (on the AUR)
Shortcut deamon: SXHKD (Simple X HotKey Deamon) -> still on Xorg :(
To set the background: feh
Menu launcher: rofi
Compositor: picom standard
Terminal emulator: Alacritty
Shell: Zsh

Instructions

NeoVim

You can install neovim using the package from the arch repositories and install also the package python-pynvim to have the compatibility with the plugin Youcompleteme for the autocompletion engine.

$ pacman -S neovim python-pynvim

then create a folder ~/.config/nvim and put the int.vim configuration file of this repo.

To enable plugins, install vim-plug according to its installation guide for neovim:

$ sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

create ~/.config/nvim/plugged, open a neovim window and run :PlugInstall to install the plugins.

Then to have the Youcompleteme plugin working correctly, please navigate to ~/.config/nvim/plugged/youcompleteme and run the install.py script.

BSPWM & SXHKD

Install both bspwm and sxhkd, in particular here we are going to use a fork of bspwm which enables rounded corners which can be found as bspwm-rounded-corners on the AUR.

Then create the folders ~/.config/bspwm/ and ~/.config/sxhkd and put the configuration files of this repo in their respective folders

Compositor

The compositor of choice is the standar picom which enables some effects, window shadows and so on.

$ pacman -S picom

Then copy the configuration file in this repo (i will put it) and copy it in ~/.config/picom/picom.conf, i setted some fading-effects and window shadows as well as rounded corners directly from the compositor

Installation and configuration of Zsh

Zsh is a shell different from bash that has some additional features like syntax-highighting, completion based on history and some more powerful theming.

To install zsh follow the instructions in the Arch wiki, particularly install:

Zsh (of course) $ pacman -S zsh
The autocompletion and syntax highlighting themes: $ pacman -S zsh-completion zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting
The theme in use (powerlevel10k): $ pacman -S zsh-theme-powerlevel10k

Then simply copy .zshrc and .p10k.zsh into the home folder.

Please recall that you should set zsh as the user's default shell:

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

Note about the theme

The theme in use needs some fonts to be used and set in the terminal, in particular it requires the nerd fonts: sudo pacman -S ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono

How does zsh look like?

In this image you can see how code completion and syntax highlighting works in zsh with the above configuration as well as have an idea of how the shell should look like.

Here you can see how the theme adapts in the case that your working directory is a git repository with some not-committed changes

Here you can see how the theme adapts in the case taht your working directory is a git repository with some committed but not pushed changes

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