Modernize terminal configs & dotfiles
TODO list:
- Install and/or switch to Zsh + oh-my-zsh + p10k
- Figure out a modern
dotfilessolution ✅ DONE
Details
- Figure out a modern
dotfilessolution ✅ DONE- GNU
stow- Written in Perl 🤮 👎
- A collection of perl scripts & modules
- Bootstrap requirements: Perl 5.6.1 or later, GNU
make,autotools(🤮)
- Simple symlink farm management 👍
- Supports
--dotfilesspecial handling ofdot-foo=>.foo👍 - Well maintained by FSF 👍
- Tutorial 1 here
- Tutorial 2 here
- License: GNU GPLv3 or later
- Written in Perl 🤮 👎
chezmoi<= Decided on this one- Support for secrets via password managers 👍
- Written in Go 👍
- Single binary distribution 👍
- Bootstrap requirements: None... download binary & execute! 👍
- Support for templating 👍 (meh?)
- Only Go templates
- (
text/templatesyntax from Go extended with text template functions from sprig
- (
- Only Go templates
- Support for password managers
- Includes LastPass! 👍
- Lots of extra features 👍 👍 👍 ... 👍
- Well maintained, but most commits are from single developer,
twpayne. Good pulse, large amount of contributors. 👍 - License: MIT
yadm- Written in Bash 👍 🤷
- Bootstrap requirements: Bash, git (optionally others)
- Supports custom bootstrap commands 👍
- Alternate files / OS-specific files 👍
- Supports templating (
awk,esh,j2cli,envtpl) 👍 (meh?)- Kinda meh about the choices except Jinja2 via
j2cli... but adds to bootstrap requirements 🤷
- Kinda meh about the choices except Jinja2 via
- Encrypted files (via entire encrypted archive) 👍 (meh?)
- Adds to bootstrap requirements:
gpg+ OpenSSL,transcrypt,git-crypt - Saves everything into a single encrypted archive file:
$HOME/.local/share/yadm/archive
- Adds to bootstrap requirements:
- Written in Bash 👍 🤷
dotter- Written in Rust 👍
- Single binary distribution 👍
- Bootstrap requirements: None... download binary & execute! 👍
- Configuration in TOML 🤷 (meh)
- NO support for encrypted files 👎
- NO support for password managers 👎
- However: Both of the above could be accomplished via
preandpostdeploy hooks - Supports templating (
handlebars-rust) 👍 - Supports Rhai scripting 👍
- Supports hooks 👍
- Supports partial deployment of "packages" 👍
- Supports OS-specific deployment paths 👍
- Possibly less well-maintained 👎 (most commits by single developer, less pulse than
chezmoiet. al.) - License: Unlicense
- Written in Rust 👍
- GNU
- Track all dotfiles in
chezmoirepo trinitronx/dotfiles IN PROGRESS- Merge
.profilebetween macOS + Linux ✅ DONE - Merge
.bash_profile+.bashrcbetween macOS + Linux TODO 🔝 priority! (trinitronx/dotfiles#42) - Merge
.zshrc&.config/zsh/*between macOS + Linux IN-PROGRESS 🔝 priority!- Install OMZ + plugins using
gitor git submodules - Detangle & merge macOS
~/.zshrcinto~/.config/oh-my-zsh/zshrcIN-PROGRESS
- Install OMZ + plugins using
- Merge
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- Track all dotfiles in
chezmoirepo trinitronx/dotfiles IN PROGRESS- Detangle & merge macOS
~/.zshrcinto~/.config/oh-my-zsh/zshrc- Track in
chezmoisource repo ✅ DONE - Merge old macOS version of the OMZ config file into
~/.config/oh-my-zsh/zshrc✅ DONE - Fix
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"on Manjaro (needs symlink from$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/powerlevel10kto/usr/share/zsh-theme-powerlevel10k) ✅ DONE - Fix creation and default permissions of
${ZSH_CACHE_DIR}/completions✅ DONE - Fix Window titles on Manjaro - override default terminal title command truncation TODO
ZSH_THEME_TERM_TITLE_IDLE, etc...
- Track in
- Detangle & merge Manjaro with macOS
~/.zshrc- Track in
chezmoisource repo - #107
- macOS:
~/.config/zsh/.zsh_history - Manjaro:
~/.zhistory(currently... but needs to be:~/.config/zsh/.zsh_history)
- macOS:
- #106
~/.config/zsh/.zshrcLoads~/.config/zsh/config.d/*, which includes00-history-size.zsh~/.config/zsh/.zshrcMUST Load~/.zshrcAFTER, due to bugs in Manjaro's config:- Otherwise, it breaks
bashselect-word-styleCtrl+w yank & paste Ctrl+y - This is because
/usr/share/zsh/manjaro-zsh-configincludes thezsh-syntax-highlightingplugin before our settings are applied! - See: zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting#67
- Otherwise, it breaks
~/.zshrcIs loaded, and was working around the issue by settingselect-word-style bashAND usingZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETSworkaround.- However, something in Manjaro config changed and
ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETSworkaround is now failing to work also! - The culprit is zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions#363
- Reference: zsh yanks only last cut word
- Enabling BOTH
select-word-style bashAND theZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETSdoes not work - Yet, with
select-word-style bashdisabled and$ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_IGNORE_WIDGETSset... it works again! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ - Because these things must happen before + after sourcing
/usr/share/zsh/manjaro-zsh-config, they are constrained to be in this file. Yet, because~/.zshrcis sourced AFTER the~/.config/zsh/config.d/*and thus00-history-size.zsh, it causes a problem withHISTFILEbeing overridden! - We therefore have a Catch-22
- However, something in Manjaro config changed and
- Track in
- Detangle & merge macOS
- Contd... Track all dotfiles in
chezmoirepo trinitronx/dotfiles IN PROGRESS- Detangle & merge Manjaro with macOS
~/.config/zsh/.zshrc- Track in
chezmoisource repo ✅ DONE - Detangle the mess (see above) ☝️ TODO
- Track in
- Fix insecure perms for
~/.cache/oh-my-zsh/completions,~/.cache/oh-my-zsh✅ DONE - TODO: Fix broken
backward-kill-wordbehavior (see above) ☝️ TODO- Workaround partially in:
~/src/pub/zsh-autosuggestions/manjaro-zsh-prompt - Problem in:
/usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh - Upstream bug: zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions#551
- Workaround partially in:
-
rgconfigs ✅ DONE -
mpvconfigs ✅ DONE- Fix
channels.conf.atscchannel names (merge with.azap/channels.confnames) ✅ DONE (trinitronx/dotfiles#60, trinitronx/dotfiles@33d44a6) -
mpv.conf✅ DONE -
input.conf✅ DONE - PoC / MVP of Channel Selector Rofi / Wofi script: rofi-mpv-dvb ✅ DONE
- Fix
-
azapconfigs ✅ DONE -
agconfigs ✅ DONE- Work on patch implementing XDG Base Spec paths (build on top of trinitronx/the_silver_searcher#1)
-
waybarconfigs ✅ DONE -
tmuxconfigs ✅ IN-PROGRESS
- Detangle & merge Manjaro with macOS
- Support OSC 133 command scrollback (e.g.: tmux config)
- tmux/tmux#3064
- tmux/tmux#3596
- Kitty Shell Integration - for comparison
- dnkl/foot Shell Integration
- iTerm2
- Check that
footselection bindings are configured how I want - Fix ssh/remote GPG + SSH agent forwarding for Yubikeys in both bash + zsh
- Install + add default configs for
deltaasgit difftool- Look into & configure
deltain vim/nvim - Possible paths to explore:
- Alternative: vimdiff configs
- Look into & configure
- Investigate Helix
- Investigate switch and/or co-install of NeoVim
- If deciding on switch to NeoVim: Edit this file:
~/.config/profile.d/01-editor-nvim.sh - Diffs between vim & neovim
- Alternative w/ VSCode extensions: Onivim
- NeoVim + TreeSitter syntax hilighting support
- If deciding on switch to NeoVim: Edit this file:
- Investigate Light/Dark mode support in terminals, colorschemes, GTK, etc...
- Work on cliphist support for
CLIPBOARD_STATE=sensitive-
go install go.senan.xyz/cliphist@master - Helper script + Sway config for dynamic window/app detection of sensitive windows
- Integration with
rofi-lpassplugin:lpass-rofi- Get
yaddialog working - In-Progress - Handle
rofi-waylandfork edge case: LastPass item with "Require master password Reprompt" set- Debug issue
- It turns out that
rofialways has keyboard focus, and by default is usingwlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1protocol with theexclusivekeyboard interactivity mode. - Grabbing exclusive keyboard focus is the defined behavior when in
exclusivemode. - However, for the LastPass Rofi plugin, we do not want this behavior, because
lpasswill spawnpinentry-gtk3when prompting for the Master Password. The user needs to be able to type in the password and hit enter to dismiss thelpasspassword prompt dialog box. - Currently, the
rofi-waylandfork does not allow the user to interact with any other window exceptrofi, which makes therofi-lpassuse case impossible when Master Password reprompt is enabled for an item stored in LastPass.
- It turns out that
- Try to implement
on-demandkeyboard interactivity mode (viawlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1 - zwlr_layer_surface_v1::keyboard_interactivity)- Similar to changes I made for: nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer#95
- Sway added this in swaywm/sway#7587
- In-Progress - Figure out why
rofidoes not release keyboard focus, or at least re-grabs it very soon after (Not sure ifswayorrofiis doing this)- Add debugging info to
rofi-waylandinside the related keyboardenterandleavehandler functions- Currently, this is printing both the
leaveevent, and then another keyboardenterevent quickly afterwards! - Not sure whether
swayis doing this, orrofisomehow grabs keyboard access even more exclusively than it's supposed to be allowed by the Wayland protocol.
- Currently, this is printing both the
- Add debugging info to
- Debug issue
- Get
- Wrap all this in a recipe to install
-
LyraPhase / lyraphase_workstation
lyraphase_workstation cookbook
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