table of content

table of content

what i keep in this repository

dotfiles managed by GNU/Stow - Neovim, Alacritty, Zsh, Cmus, gitconfig, and possibly more configurations
zsh functions
Various installation scripts
VSCode settings & workspaces

( I no longer use VSCode, even in this scripts, but keep the settings anyway )

requirements and dependencies

requirements

Be on Ubuntu
Have ssh key generated and be logged in to Github with it. Needed for SSH git cloning.
Gnome desktop environment installed and running
Bash (Already preinstalled on Debian based distributions)

dependency packages

wget
stow
git

install required packages with this command

sudo apt install -y wget stow git

what does all of this do?

Downloads useful and necessary apt and snap packages
Downloads nerd font: Hack nerd font
Downloads and compiles lazydocker
Downloads and compiles lazygit
Downloads vimv
Configures gnome settings with gsettings to: hide trash on dash-to-dock, hide home, disable notifications, etc.

And possibly more. For full info, check scripts themselves at start.sh and install_scripts directory

installation

install OhMyZsh

    sudo apt install -y zsh

    sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

install dotfiles

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monoira/.dotfiles/main/start.sh | bash

When scripts finish, reboot your system.

why are you using both snap and flatpak?

i tried to only use flatpak, but had some problems with following packages

neovim

neovim in apt is severely outdated, PPA version is outdated and flatpak version is TERRIBLE, buggy and overly sandboxed. Building .deb package with "dpkg -i" means it won't update.

steam

installing via flatpak or apt steam-installer didn't worked, since it kept giving me unmet dependencies error. Building .deb package with "dpkg -i" means it won't update. I WILL CHECK LATER. Until then, I have to use snap version.

figma-linux

can't install via apt or flatpak. Building .deb package with "dpkg -i" means it won't update.

I would love to only use flatpak and get away from snap, But it is what it is. I will re-check in the future if I can replace those packages with non-snap versions and finally be snap-free.

manual tasks that can not be automated

for vim-dadbod, create file ~/.config/nvim/lua/config/dbs.lua with such content

vim.g.dbs = {
  { name = "dev", url = "postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DATABASE_NAME" },
}

add Vim extension to Dbeaver manually
add a keyboard layout
place packages based on the following image:

Optional tips you might want to consider

pause auto update / refresh of all snap packages

sudo snap refresh --hold