🗂️ Dotfiles

Personal configuration files managed with GNU Stow for a clean, reproducible Linux setup.

📦 What's Included

Package	Description	Config Path
ghostty	Ghostty terminal	~/.config/ghostty/config
kitty	Kitty terminal	~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf
p10k	Powerlevel10k prompt theme	~/.p10k.zsh
zed	Zed editor	~/.config/zed/settings.json, ~/.config/zed/keymap.json
zsh	Zsh shell configuration	~/.zshrc

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🖥️ Terminal Emulators

Ghostty

A GPU-accelerated terminal configured with:

• Font — JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (size 18)
• Appearance — Semi-transparent background (opacity 0.8), blur, dark theme, no window decorations, bar cursor
• Tabs — Bottom tab bar with compact styling
• Keybindings — Super+B leader key for tab management, splits, and vim-style (hjkl) split navigation
• Color scheme — Kitty default palette on black background

Kitty

A feature-rich GPU terminal configured with:

• Font — JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (size 16)
• Appearance — Transparent background (opacity 0.7), blur, no window decorations
• Tab bar — Powerline-style slanted tabs
• Keybindings — Same Super+B leader key convention as Ghostty for consistent muscle memory
• Splits — Super+B > \ for vertical, Super+B > - for horizontal, vim-style navigation

Both terminals share the same keybinding scheme so you can switch between them seamlessly.

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🐚 Zsh Configuration

The .zshrc is organized into clean sections and uses Zinit as the plugin manager.

Plugins

Plugin	Purpose
Powerlevel10k	Fast, customizable prompt
zsh-autosuggestions	Fish-like inline suggestions
fast-syntax-highlighting	Real-time command highlighting
fzf-tab	Fuzzy completion with fzf
Oh My Zsh Git	Git aliases and helpers

Dev Toolchain

Tool	Usage
Pyenv + Conda (Miniconda)	Python version & environment management
NVM (lazy-loaded)	Node.js version management
Bun	Fast JS runtime & package manager
pnpm	Efficient Node package manager
Rust / Cargo	Rust toolchain
CUDA 12.6	NVIDIA GPU development
Neovim	Editor (vim aliased to nvim)
Zoxide	Smarter cd with z
Docker	Container runtime
GitHub CLI	gh-switch function for multi-account auth

Notable Settings

• Vi mode enabled (set -o vi)
• Ctrl+Space / Ctrl+F to accept autosuggestions
• History — 10,000 lines, shared across sessions, deduped
• Global .env file auto-loaded from ~/.env
• Chrome launched via Flatpak (alias chrome)

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⚡ Performance

Shell startup benchmarked at ~37ms average:

zsh -i -c exit  0.03s user 0.01s system 101% cpu 0.041 total
zsh -i -c exit  0.03s user 0.00s system 101% cpu 0.035 total
zsh -i -c exit  0.03s user 0.01s system 101% cpu 0.040 total
zsh -i -c exit  0.03s user 0.01s system 101% cpu 0.034 total
zsh -i -c exit  0.03s user 0.01s system  99% cpu 0.037 total

Optimizations

• Powerlevel10k instant prompt — renders prompt before .zshrc finishes
• Zinit turbo mode — defers syntax highlighting, fzf-tab, and OMZ git plugins
• Lazy-loaded toolchains — Pyenv, Conda, and NVM initialize only on first use
• Cached zoxide — pre-generated init script sourced as a static file
• Inlined cargo PATH — direct export instead of sourcing .cargo/env
• Auto-zcompile — .zshrc compiles itself for faster subsequent loads

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🚀 Setup

Prerequisites

• Zsh as your default shell
• GNU Stow for symlink management
• A Nerd Font installed (JetBrainsMono Nerd Font recommended)

Installation

# Clone the repo to your home directory
git clone https://github.com/vrathikshenoy/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles

# Stow individual packages (creates symlinks to ~/)
stow zsh        # → ~/.zshrc
stow p10k       # → ~/.p10k.zsh
stow ghostty    # → ~/.config/ghostty/config
stow kitty      # → ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

# Or stow everything at once
stow */

Post-Install

1. Restart your shell or run source ~/.zshrc
2. Zinit will auto-install on first launch and pull all plugins
3. Powerlevel10k — run p10k configure if you want to customize the prompt
4. Install the dev tools referenced in .zshrc as needed:

   # Pyenv
   curl https://pyenv.run | bash
   
   # NVM
   curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.0/install.sh | bash
   
   # Rust
   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
   
   # Zoxide
   curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/main/install.sh | sh
   
   # Bun
   curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

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🔑 Keybinding Cheatsheet

All keybindings use the Super+B leader key (works in both Ghostty and Kitty):

Keybinding	Action
Super+B > c	New tab
Super+B > x	Close tab/surface
Super+B > 1–9	Go to tab 1–9
Super+B > n	New window
Super+B > \	Vertical split
Super+B > -	Horizontal split
Super+h/j/k/l	Navigate splits (vim-style)

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📁 Directory Structure

dotfiles/
├── ghostty/
│   └── .config/ghostty/config
├── kitty/
│   └── .config/kitty/kitty.conf
├── p10k/
│   └── .p10k.zsh
├── zed/
│   └── .config/zed/
│       ├── settings.json
│       └── keymap.json
├── zsh/
│   └── .zshrc
└── README.md