@psimonazzi dotfiles

“It's dangerous to go alone. Take This!”

My precious dotfiles for Linux (tested on Debian/Ubuntu). They keep my customizations for:

• Bash shell: prompt, terminal colors, fonts, sizes
• Emacs: a quite basic (for Emacs standards) .emacs full of ancient wisdom
• Openbox: a minimal menu and a minimal graphical theme focused on typography
• Git: global config

Window and font sizes have been optimized for a resolution of about 1920x1200. Typography is based on the Ubuntu font, which you can install from here or from the Debian package ttf-ubuntu-font-family.

Installation

You place the files in ~/dotfiles, symlinked in your home dir so programs can find them. Sensitive data (user name, email, crypto keys etc.) is kept in a separate ~/.secrets file, and exported as environment variables. To use these dotfiles you should create your own secrets file, like this:

cat > ~/.secrets <<EOF
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='<your name>'
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='<your email>'
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='<your name>'
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='<your email>'
export GITHUB_USER='<your github username>'
EOF

With Git

Clone the repository, then run ./bootstrap.sh to create the symlinks.

cd; git clone https://github.com/psimonazzi/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh

The script will avoid creating symlinks for files already in your home dir, so if some of these files already exist (most likely .bashrc) you will want to delete them or backup them to another dir.

Without Git

To install the files in your home dir, without symlinks and without cloning the Git repository (WARNING: existing dotfiles in your home dir will be overwritten!):

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/psimonazzi/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

To update later on, just run the command again.

Credits

Done in the spirit of http://dotfiles.github.com.

General setup and installation inspired by @mathiasbynens.

Emacs customizations taken from countless places: most are mentioned in the source.