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My configuration files for various programs

📰 Overview

Here I maintain configuration files of programs that I use or have used in my Arch Linux system.

Some programs' configurations that I think deserve their own repositories are not here, like:

App	Repository	Description
AwesomeWM	awesomewm-config	Awesome window manager
Bash	bash-config	Bash command-line shell
Neovim	neovim-config	Neovim text editor
Lf	lf-config	Lf terminal file manager
Mpv	mpv-config	Mpv video/audio player
Dash	dash-config	Dash shell and POSIX functions
many	root-dotfiles	Config files from /

Note: If you'd like to know how I easily maintain all of them separately, I use vcsh, and yadm for my root dotfiles

Also, my scripts are not included here, but in this repo

⭐ App configurations

App	Files	Short description
sxhkd	`sxhkdrc`	Desktop keymaps (keyboard shortcuts)
alacritty	`alacritty.yml`	Terminal keymaps, appearance
rofi	`config.rasi` `test_arc_dark.rasi`	Launcher modes, keymaps Launcher appearance
vimiv	`keys.conf` `vimivrc` `vimiv.conf`	Image viewer keymaps and options
htop	`htoprc`	Process manager appearance
zathura	`zathurarc`	PDF reader keymaps, appearance
less	`lesskey`	Pager keymaps, appearance
byobu (tmux)	`.tmux.conf`	Multiplexer keymaps, appearance
picom	`picom.conf`	Compositor opacity, shadows, effects
git	`config` `gitalias.txt`	Git config Many git aliases and short scripts
vcsh	`vcsh/hooks*` `sparse-checkout`	Git hooks for vcsh repos Sparse/Hidden files allowed in vcsh repos root dirs
yadm	`bootstrap`	Sparse/Hidden files allowed in yadm repo root dir
calcurse	`conf` `keys`	Calendar keymaps, appearance
konsole	`konsolerc` `*.colorscheme`	Terminal keymaps, appearance Terminal color schemes
kitty	`kitty.conf`	Terminal keymaps, appearance
terminator	`terminator/config`	Terminal keymaps, appearance
newsboat	`newsboat/config`	RSS reader keymaps, appearance
urxvt	`Xresources/urxvt`	Terminal keymaps, appearance
gitk	`git/gitk`	Git repo browser appearance
git-cliff	`cliff.toml`	Git changelog template appearance
ytfzf	`conf.sh`	Youtube scraping options
starship	`starship.toml`	Prompt appearance, widgets
nano	`nanorc`	Text editor keymaps, appearance
flameshot	`flameshot.ini`	Screenshoter contrast, saving
inxi	`inxi.conf`	System information appearance
readline	`inputrc`	Completion options
screenkey	`screenkey.json`	Key shower appearance
xournalpp	`settings.xml`	Notetaker tool defaults, appearance
redshift	`redshift.conf`	Color temperature
libreoffice	`*.xcu`	Office programs color scheme
lsd	`config.yaml` `icons.yaml`	Lsd default options Icons for filetypes and extensions
ripgrep	`ripgreprc`	Ripgrep default options
bat	`bat/config`	File syntax highlighter
neofetch	`config.conf`	System information appearance

💻 Programming languages and shell configurations

Language/App	Files	Short description
Python	`pythonrc.py`	Runcom. Run on every REPL, lazy imports
R	`Rprofile` `Renviron`	Runcom, lazy imports Environment variables
Julia	`startup.jl`	Runcom
Fish	`config.fish` `fish_variables`	Runcom Environment variables
Ion	`initrc`	Runcom
MySQL	`myclirc`	REPL client appearance
Jupyter	`jupyter_server_config.json` `themes.jupyterlab-settings`	JupyterLab appearance
Gnuplot	`gnuplotrc`	Graphics appearance
Matplotlib	`matplotlibrc`	Graphics appearance

* Some languages may have system configs, check my root dotfiles repo.

🖥 System configurations

✨ Default applications

I also maintain desktop entries for my default applications in .local/share/applications/*.desktop. These are to be used by a resource opener to associate with a file mime type, extension, etc. to open a specific file.

These are the descriptive:

FILE_MANAGER.desktop
BROWSER.desktop
EDITOR.desktop
IMAGE_EDITOR.desktop
AUDIO_PLAYER.desktop
VIDEO_PLAYER.desktop
READER.desktop
EMAIL_CLIENT.desktop
TORRENT_CLIENT.desktop

The reason I do this is to manage them more easily. Now if, for example, I want to change my default email client, I just change the command in the EMAIL_CLIENT.desktop and don't have to change anything in my resource opener, whatever this may be.

On that note, I maintain these opening associations:

Resource opener	Files
`xdg-open`	`mimeapps.list`

Also these names may be used as environment variables so that a file manager could be fined-tuned to use a different default app in a specific case.

You may also be interested in my opener script and my xdg-mime-env script

🖼 X server

I maintain some files that modify the X server initialization or configuration, mostly located in .config/X11/*. These are:

File	Short description
`xmodmap`	Keyboard layout
`xcompose`	Keybord configurations
`Xresources`	Configuration parameters for X apps
`xsettingsd.conf`	Daemon configurations for Xorg apps, when not running one
`shelldm`	Shell "display manager" script
`xserverrc`	Shell script that starts X
`xinitrc`	Shell script running when X starts
`user-dirs.dirs`	XDG user directories (in your ~)

I don't use a display manager to start my X server, instead I use the xinit program. But instead of running startx from my tty on login, I made a tiny shell script shelldm that shows a menu selection for the available desktops/window managers, and then startx it.

To set this up, you have to run this script from your system shell's system runcom. So for example for me, my system shell is dash and I put a line like this:

case "$(tty)" in
  "/dev/tty1")
    exec "${HOME}/.config/X11/shelldm"
esac

at the end of the /etc/profile file.

You can check my root dotfiles for details.

👀 See also

📝 Licence

GPLv3-or-later (to the extend that mostly config files are copyrightable)

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