Lauren's dotfiles setup

This repository contains my personal dotfiles for both MacOS and Linux. Further documentation on Linux-specific setup is available in linked files.

1️⃣ Clone this GitHub repo

Clone this repository into ~/.dotfiles:

git clone [email protected]:phantomesse/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

2️⃣ Use stow to place the correct dotfiles

This dotfiles setup uses GNU Stow to install the dotfiles in the correct locations and to install only the dotfiles required for each operating system.

Install GNU Stow

MacOS (install via Homebrew):

brew install stow

Linux:

sudo apt-get install stow

Place the dotfiles

When running stow commands, ensure that you are in the .dotfiles directory:

cd ~/.dotfiles

For both MacOS and Linux, install the shared dotfiles:

stow shared

For Linux-specific dotfiles:

stow linux

3️⃣ Setup terminal things

I use zsh as my shell instead of the default bash shell since it is faster and provides more modern configuration. I'm using zplug as the plugin manager. It should install automagically when sourcing .zshrc.

To improve the terminal experience, install the following:

• tmux - a terminal multiplexer that allows split screens and multiple panes within the terminal
• colorls - adds icons to ls
  • To get the icons to show up, make sure that a font from nerd-fonts is installed
  • If gem installing colorls doesn't work, try installing ruby-dev:

    sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
    

• vim-plug - plugin manager for vim
  • Install plugins by opening vim and running :PlugInstall

Aliases such as the ls alias that uses lolcat and colorls are stored in ~/bin. Make sure that they are executable by doing:

chmod a+x ~/bin/ls

Fonts

On my personal Mac, I use Operator Mono as my monospace font.

On machines that do not have an Operator Mono license, I use Input Mono with the customized settings ready-to-download from here:

https://input.fontbureau.com/preview/?size=14&language=css&theme=solarized-dark&family=InputSans&width=300&weight=400&line-height=1.4&a=ss&g=ss&i=serifs_round&l=serifs_round&zero=0&asterisk=height&braces=0&preset=default&customize=please

For my Linux machines, I use San Francisco as the window font (e.g. in the toolbar and GUIs). It can be downloaded from here:

https://github.com/AppleDesignResources/SanFranciscoFont

I also use the Noto Color Emoji font to have colored emojis on my Linux machines. It can be downloaded from here:

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

To install fonts on Linux, download the font, put it in the ~/.fonts folder, and then run:

sudo fc-cache -fv

Install Alacritty on windows

https://technixleo.com/install-and-configure-alacritty-terminal-on-windows/