Dotfiles

My linux dotfiles and daily used tools, managed with chezmoi. Mainly used on Arch Linux and Ubuntu.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Prerequisites
  • Tools
  • Font
• How to Use
• Key Bindings
  • i3
  • tmux
    • tmux-copycat
    • tmux-yank
      • Normal Mode
      • Copy Mode
    • tmux-open
    • Tmux Plugin Manager
  • tig
    • Generic bindings
    • Main bindings
  • vim

Preface

• Window Manager: i3-wm with polybar
• Terminal: alacritty with tmux
• Shell: zsh with powerlevel10k
• Editor: mainly vscode (which is not included in the dotfiles), but also vim for quick edit in terminal

Prerequisites

These dotfiles and softwares are customized according to personal preferences and development needs. You may need to adjust them to fit your own workflow.

Tools

The installation ways of these tools may vary depending on your Linux distribution. Please refer to their official documentations for more details.

• i3
• i3lock-fancy
• polybar
• rofi
• dunst
• alacritty
• oh-my-zsh
• tmux
• mise
• powerlevel10k
• tig
• diff-highlight
• git-interactive-rebase-tool

Font

Please take a look at Meslo Nerd Font patched for Powerlevel10k.

How to Use

Install the chezmoi command and dotfiles from this GitHub dotfile repo on a new machine with this command:

# Option 1: installed by curl
$ sh -c "$(curl -fsLS https://chezmoi.io/get)" -- init --apply qq88976321
# Option 2: installed by wget
$ sh -c "$(wget -qO- https://chezmoi.io/get)" -- init --apply qq88976321

# And then fill in prompts or just leave it empty if you don't need it
# The config file, typically ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml, is specific to the local machine.
# [GUI] Does this machine need desktop environment and applications (y/n)?
# [Git] Username?
# [Git] Email address?
# [Git] GnuPG signature key?
# [Git] Private git repository?

Key Bindings

Here are my daily used key bindings, which may not include all the key bindings supported by these tools.

i3

key	description
win (Mod4)	modifier
$mod+enter	open terminal
$mod+shift+q	close focused window
$mod+d	open rofi
$mod+h / $mod+Left	focus left
$mod+j / $mod+Down	focus down
$mod+k / $mod+Up	focus up
$mod+l / $mod+Right	focus right
$mod+shift+h / $mod+shift+Left	move focused window left
$mod+shift+j / $mod+shift+Down	move focused window down
$mod+shift+k / $mod+shift+Up	move focused window up
$mod+shift+l / $mod+shift+Right	move focused window right
$mod+shift+space	toggle tiling / floating
$mod+<0 to 9>	switch to workspace <0 to 9>
$mod+shift+<0 to 9>	move focused container to workspace <0 to 9>
$mod+shift+c	reload the configuration file
$mod+shift+r	restart i3 inplace
$mod+shift+e	exit i3
Scroll Lock	lock screen using i3lock-fancy
$mod+r	enter resize mode
$mod+mouse right click	resize window

tmux

First press the prefix key ctrl+space, released and then press the key listed below.

key	description
?	list all key bindings
`	split window horizontally
-	split window vertically
<arrow>	select pane
p	previous window
n	next window
c	create a new window
,	rename current window
&	kill current window
w	choose a window from a list
R	source .tmux.conf

tmux-copycat

First press the prefix key ctrl+space, released and then press the key listed below.

key	description
ctrl+f	simple file search
ctrl+g	jumping over git status files (best used after git status command)
alt+h	jumping over SHA-1/SHA-256 hashes (best used after git log command)
ctrl+u	url search (http, ftp and git urls)
ctrl+d	number search (mnemonic d, as digit)

tmux-yank

Normal Mode

First press the prefix key ctrl+space, released and then press the key listed below.

key	description
y	copies text from the command line to the clipboard
Y	copy the current pane's current working directory to the clipboard

Copy Mode

key	description
y	copy selection to system clipboard
Y	copy selection to system clipboard, and paste it to the command line

tmux-open

key	description
o	open a highlighted selection with the system default program. open for OS X or xdg-open for Linux
ctrl-o	open a highlighted selection with the $EDITOR
shift-s	search the highlighted selection directly using google

Tmux Plugin Manager

First press the prefix key ctrl+space, released and then press the key listed below.

key	description
I	installs new plugins from GitHub or any other git repository and refreshes TMUX environment
U	updates plugin(s)
alt+u	remove/uninstall plugins not on the plugin list

tig

Generic bindings

key	description
c	copy commit id to clipboard

Main bindings

key	description
R	start git rebase at the commit
F	fixup the commit
C	cherry-pick this commit

vim

TODO: still have a lot to learn