Dotfiles for Ubuntu 21.10

My preferred starting configuration. Currently using Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri + Pop_OS! Shell for tiling.

The installation script (scripts/install.sh) will install a suggested serving of programs and applications using scripts in the scripts/programs/ directory. Please verify that you want these before running the script.

Add or delete programs in scripts/install.sh and scripts/programs/ to modify your installation.

Usage

After installing your fresh OS, create any SSH keys you need to access GitHub. See copy-able commands for doing this below.

If not generating new keys, place the ones you need in .ssh/. Remember to run ssh-add as well as chmod 600 <key_name>. Then clone this repository:

git clone [email protected]:victoriadrake/dotfiles.git

# Or use HTTPS
git clone https://github.com/victoriadrake/dotfiles.git

You may optionally like to pass the --depth argument to clone only a few of the most recent commits.

Close Firefox if it's open, then run the installation script. (Read it first so you know what it does!)

cd dotfiles/scripts/
./install.sh

To install the Pop_OS! Shell for window tiling, see Installation in their repo.

Random Helpful Stuff (TM)

Clone all your remote repositories

Given a list of repository URLs, gh-repos.txt, run:

xargs -n1 git clone < gh-repos.txt

Use the firewood Bash alias (see .bashrc) to collect remote branches.

See How to write Bash one-liners for cloning and managing GitHub and GitLab repositories for more.

Terminal theme

There are plenty of themes for Gnome terminal at Mayccoll/Gogh.

Print a 256-color test pattern in your terminal:

for i in {0..255} ; do
    printf "\x1b[48;5;%sm%3d\e[0m " "$i" "$i"
    if (( i == 15 )) || (( i > 15 )) && (( (i-15) % 6 == 0 )); then
        printf "\n";
    fi
done

Saving and loading configuration settings

Where SETTINGS_BACKUP is wherever you backed up/want to back up your settings (aptly named, isn't it?), load settings.dconf with:

dconf load /org/gnome/ < $(SETTINGS_BACKUP)/.config/dconf/settings.dconf

Back up new settings with:

dconf dump /org/gnome/ > $(SETTINGS_BACKUP)/.config/dconf/settings.dconf

Run man dconf on your machine for more.

Set up SSH Keys

Commands for setting up a new SSH key.

1. Generate the key:

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519

2. Add it to the ssh-agent:

   eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
   ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

3. Set appropriate permissions:

   chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

4. Show the public key so you can copy it to the service, e.g. GitHub:

   cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Your personal CLI tool Makefile

See the Makefile in this repository for some helpful command aliases. Read about self-documenting Makefiles on my blog.