Paul Gledhill's Dot Files

TO DO

Which of these are mine, versus work laptop?
iTerm => MacOS Terminal settings
(think there's a fair bit on MacOS settings)
Detect Stndard MacOS terminal - and bail - in the bashrc files
Add to Brew... brew install --cask font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font
Add to Brew... brew install --cask iterm2
Add iTerms settings default locations

Install

bash -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pmgledhill102/dotfiles/main/install.sh`"

bash -c "`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pmgledhill102/dotfiles/dev/install.sh`"

Overview

Welcome to my dotfiles repository! This repository contains personal configuration files (often referred to as dotfiles because they typically start with a dot, like .zshrc or .vimrc) that I use to personalize and customize my development environment. These dotfiles are managed using GNU Stow which is downloaded as part of the install.sh script.

I'm looking to support:

Ubuntu
MacOS

Thanks Shivam Khattar

Idea stolen from the absolutely wonderful Shivam Khattar (@iamkhattar). Many thanks for your endless energy!

Scope

Quick installer scripts:
- Apple Mac - developer
- Windows - developer
- Ubuntu - lightweight install (small time, small size)
- Ubuntu - full install (dev box/WSL)
Terminal Prompts
- Windows Terminal:
  - Powershell
  - WSL Bash
- VS Code Terminal with Powershell
- Bash on Ubuntu
- Aliases within Prompts
- Nerd Fonts
WSL
- Disable IP6
- Disable using Windows Paths (the gcloud problem)
- Change default folder to ~
Windows Terminal Settings
Nano Language Support
Ubuntu core utils

Note: Ubuntu Minimal not supported (lacks git, nano, apt-utils, ...)

Oh My Posh

I decided to embrace Oh My Posh to provide terminal customisations. Although not as configurable as PowerLevel10k, it is not limited to zsh, it can work across bash, cmd, powershell and zsh running on Windows, Linux or MacOS.

winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget

Fonts

All modern prompts are designed to work best with a "Nerd Font" (fonts patched to include icons). I've gone for the Jet Brains Mono Nerd Font, as it was designed specifically for code so looks great and is easy to install on Windows.

winget install --id="DEVCOM.JetBrainsMonoNerdFont" --exact

Windows Terminal

C:\Users\messe\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

"defaultProfile": "{7c665dc7-9f17-41f5-b5b1-20d9a46fd961}",

{
    "colorScheme": "Campbell",
    "commandline": "\"C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe\"",
    "font": 
    {
        "face": "JetBrainsMonoNL NFP"
    },
    "guid": "{7c665dc7-9f17-41f5-b5b1-20d9a46fd961}",
    "hidden": false,
    "icon": "ms-appx:///ProfileIcons/pwsh.png",
    "name": "Dev",
    "startingDirectory": "c:\\dev"
}

Power Shell

$PROFILE = "C:\Users\messe\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1"

oh-my-posh init pwsh --config 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pmgledhill102/dotfiles/main/ohmyposh/theme.json' | Invoke-Expression

VSCode Terminal

"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font",

On MacOS location of settings is $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json

brew install tidwall/jj/jj

jj -v "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font" -p -i "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json" -o "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json" "terminal\.integrated\.fontFamily"

# OR...

tmp=$(mktemp)
jq '.["terminal.integrated.fontFamily"] = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"' "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json" > "$tmp"
mv "$tmp" "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json"

Ubuntu

# Install to $HOME/bin folder
curl -s https://ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s -- -d $HOME/bin

Add this to ~/.bashrc ...

# Oh My Posh
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
eval "$(oh-my-posh init bash --config 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pmgledhill102/dotfiles/main/ohmyposh/theme.json')"

MacOS

brew install jandedobbeleer/oh-my-posh/oh-my-posh

brew install --cask font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font

Add to the .zshrc file:

eval "$(oh-my-posh init zsh)"

And install iTerm2:

brew install --cask iterm2

# Configure iterm2 to use the file from this repo for it's settings, this includes
# the changes to default font

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 PrefsCustomFolder -string "~/.config/iterm"
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 LoadPrefsFromCustomFolder -bool true

Lean Focus

When installed to Ubuntu servers, I want the footprint to be kept to a minimum, as I'll be charged for the storage. This is a major reason to avoid homebrew. To enforce this over time I've included a 100MB check into the GitHub workflow.

Podman

Great article on running x86 containers on aarch64:

https://medium.com/@guillem.riera/podman-machine-setup-for-x86-64-on-apple-silicon-run-docker-amd64-containers-on-m1-m2-m3-bf02bea38598

Brew before I started

Here's my Mac brew list before I started to automate installs

> brew list
> brew tap

Formulae

autoconf
brotli
c-ares
ca-certificates
cairo
fontconfig
freetype
gcc
gettext
gh
giflib
git
glib
gmp
go
gradle
graphite2
grep
harfbuzz
icu4c
isl
jj
jpeg-turbo
kind
kn
kubernetes-cli
libmpc
libnghttp2
libpng
libtiff
libuv
libx11
libxau
libxcb
libxdmcp
libxext
libxrender
little-cms2
lz4
lzo
m4
maven
mpdecimal
mpfr
node
nvm
oh-my-posh
openjdk
openjdk@17
openssl@3
pack
pandoc
pcre2
pixman
pkg-config
pyenv
quarkus
readline
rustup-init
sqlite
tfenv
xorgproto
xz
zstd

Casks

discord
font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font
google-cloud-sdk
insomnia
inspec
intellij-idea-ce
iterm2
utm
visual-studio-code

Taps

buildpacks/tap
chef/chef
jandedobbeleer/oh-my-posh
knative/client
quarkusio/tap
tidwall/jj

Google Cloud Shell

I experimented with OMP support within Cloud Shell, but decided not to include this as a supported configuration due to:

Lack of Nerd Fonts in the interface
Ephemeral Machine, so have to reinstall every time, or make everything local
Difficulty with local install... manual build of stow, zsh, ...

It might be beneficial still to install some custom commands, and dotfile settings, but not a priority.

Interesting Links

Here are a few links to apps used, or articles related to dotfiles: