smallwat3r’s dotfiles

Feel free to pick whatever you want from this repo, but note it has been mostly created for my personal use and its updated very frequently. Use at your own risks and please create back-ups of your current set-up if you intend to use the Makefile. Dotfiles are managed by GNU Stow.

Those dotfiles are maintained for different platforms because I’m using multiple machines with different OSes.

• Macbook 13
• Arch Linux with i3
• GPD Pocket 3, running Arch with i3 (need some specific additional patches and configs)

Hence why the stow targets are divided into multiple different directories.

• Cross platform configurations can be found under cross-platform/, it includes things like zsh, emacs, ssh, bash scripts. Those “should be” platform agnostic.
• Macbook specific configurations can be found under macos/ and macos-root/.
• Arch Linux specific configurations can be found under arch/ and arch-root/.
• GPD Pocket 3 (running on Arch) specific configurations can be found in gpd-arch/ and gpd-arch-root/. It includes stowing the generic arch/ and arch-root/ configs, but adds various tweaks to ensure the GPD behaves nicely on Arch Linux (screen rotation and resolution, touchscreen support, X11 configs etc).

Clone this repo into your home directory.

(cd $HOME && git clone https://github.com/smallwat3r/dotfiles.git)

Makefile usage:

To symlink all dotfiles (will automatically detect the OS and system for which directories to stow)

make symlink

To discover other commands

make help

Emacs

Install Emacs, I’m using Emacs 29 with native compilation (gccEmacs)

For macOS:

brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus && brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-native-comp

For Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S emacs-nativecomp

Then,

Install Doom in a custom ~/.emacs.doom directory which allows me to use Chemacs2

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs ~/.emacs.doom
~/.emacs.doom/bin/doom install

Install Chemacs2 and move aside any existing config

[ -f ~/.emacs ] && mv ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.bak
[ -d ~/.emacs.d ] && mv ~/.emacs.d ~/.emacs.legacy
git clone https://github.com/plexus/chemacs2.git ~/.emacs.d