Dotfiles

• Based on the XDG specification, use git to manage configuration files and asset files in the HOME directory.

✨ Features

• Support for GNOME and Sway on Fedora
• macOS-ish Desktop Environment: Shortcuts and Gestures
• Programming Languages Environment
• Terminal Environment
• Common packages
• etc.

🚀 Getting Started

• Clone dotfiles

if [[ ! -d "$HOME/.dotfiles" ]]; then
    echo "# git clone dotfiles"
    # git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1
    git clone --bare https://github.com/ueaner/dotfiles.git "$HOME/.dotfiles"
    git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME" checkout
    git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME" config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
fi

• Make GNOME more lightweight

0. power saver
1. Use flatpak instead of gnome-software
2. Disable & mask unused user services
3. Remove unused packages

~/bin/gnome-lightweight

• Building a macOS-ish Linux Workstation Environment

~/ansible/install

• See the ansible directory for more features

📂 Directory Structure

• XDG Base Directory

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/.config
export XDG_CACHE_HOME=~/.cache
export XDG_DATA_HOME=~/.local/share
export XDG_STATE_HOME=~/.local/state
export XDG_BIN_HOME=~/.local/bin

• /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin - System-wide binaries

ln -sf $(which nvim) /usr/local/bin/vim

• ~/.local/bin ($XDG_BIN_HOME) - User-wide binaries

1. Programming language and package manager binaries are linked to the $XDG_BIN_HOME

ln -sf $XDG_DATA_HOME/go/bin/{go,gofmt} $XDG_BIN_HOME
ln -sf $XDG_DATA_HOME/cargo/bin/* $XDG_BIN_HOME
ln -sf $XDG_DATA_HOME/node/bin/* $XDG_BIN_HOME
ln -sf $XDG_DATA_HOME/zig/zig $XDG_BIN_HOME
ln -sf $ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools/adb $XDG_BIN_HOME
ln -sf $ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager $XDG_BIN_HOME

2. Package Manager installs binaries into $XDG_BIN_HOME

cargo install
go install
pip install --user
pnpm install -g
deno install -g
composer global install
plantuml.jar

• ~/bin - Personal executable scripts

Reference

Dotfiles: Best Way to Store in a Bare Git Repository