linux_stuff

Here you find my setup files (dotfile) for a linux environment of my personal taste. It works with debian based distros such as: Debian,(K/L)Ubuntu, Bunsenlabs, DietPi, Raspi OS, Mint ...

it includes configuration for:

bash

• nice command aliases (like ll for ls -al etc..)
• 'nano' is alias for mirco
• exa as ls replacement
• console prompt "borrowed" from Kali Linux
• colourful greeting message with neofetch toilet and lolcat (alternative c version)
• golang settings

Midnight commander

• lynx-like motion enabled

nano

• line numbers
• colors
• syntax highlighting

micro

• crisp high-contrast color scheme

alacritty

• dark classic high-contrast theme
• Fira Code font

herbstluftwm

• desktop background with all key bindings displayed
• configurable for small/large screens and different apps
• green focus
• polybar with colourful icons, time and wather display
• switch off laptop screen when a monitor is connected to HDMI-1

important keybindings (some are herbstluft-default)

win-alt-s        open music player (i.e. spotify)
win-alt-b        open web browser
win-alt-n        open file browser (i.e. nemo)
win-Esc          close current window
win-, and  win-. navigate through tags (workspaces)
win-arrows       move window focus to next window
win-shift-arrows move window
win-space        open program launcher
win-shift-q      logout

Configuration

look at home/.config/herbstluftwm/autostart at the top of the file you can set some variables to your needs.

Polybar

• displays herbsluftwm workspaces
• displays weather for Lübeck/Germany
• displays local date/time
• displays CPU-load, free RAM and core Temp.
• displays current audio level
• displays current IP
• Power-Off/logout button

in Tray:

• blueman-applet (Bluetooth control)
• nm-applet (wifi network connection management) these applets are not being installed, they need to be on the system (as they are in linux mint)

Dependencies

You need to have the following packets installed. The script installs them for you:

Terminal

• nano - a lightweight console text editor wih syntax highlighting
• mc (Midnight Commande) console mased file manager
• neofetch - nice looking system info dislay
• eza - ls in full color
• lolcat (c version) - makes text rainbow-color
• toilet - prints large text on console with ascii characters
• micro editor (https://micro-editor.github.io/)

X/GUI/Graphical

• herbstluftwm - a nice tiling window manager
• alacritty - hardware acelerated terminal emualator
• polybar - the info bar and tray
• ssh-askpass - provides graphical password input for sudo
• lxappearance - GTK-Theme Selection
• pavucontrol - soundcard loudness setting dialog

Font-Dependencies

• Fira Code Font
• font-awesome (free)
• Noto Sans (preinstalled on linux Mint)
• Noto Sans Symbols2 (preinstalled on linux Mint)
• Noto Color Emoji (preinstalled on linux Mint)

Installation

There is an installer script which is able to install the needed dependencies and to symlink the dotfiles.

./install

without any parameters it prints the usage.

The install script basically installs the dependencies on ubuntu/debian based systens and renames old dotfiles and symlinks to the ones from this package.

If you are not on a debian-based distro you need to install the dependencies yourself and invoke the installer with ./install -d to symlink the dotfiles only.

enjoy!