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1 <!DOCTYPE html> 2 <html lang="en-GB"> 3 <head> 4 <meta charset="UTF-8"> 5 <meta name="author" content="Shipwreckt"> 6 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> 7 <title>Dotfiles</title> 8 <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles.css"> 9 <link rel="icon" href="../../Images/favi.png" type="image/x-icon"> 10 </head> 11 <body> 12 <header> 13 <nav> 14 <ul> 15 <li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></li> 16 <li><a href="../../links.html">Links</a></li> 17 <li><a href="../../projects.html">Projects</a></li> 18 <li><a href="../../contact.html">Contact</a></li> 19 </ul> 20 </nav> 21 </header> 22 <main> 23 <h1><b>Dotfiles</b></h1> 24 <p>Last tested: 16-02-2025</p> 25 <hr> 26 <img src="../../Images/tux/Tux.png" alt="Our Lord" class="right-image"> 27 <h3>What are Dotfiles?</h3><p> 28 The reason I have dotfiles is for a few reasons. The first is that I use my PC and a few laptops interchangeably, and having my configurations easily downloadable is a big time saver. The second reason why I have my dotfiles up is because maybe somebody is looking for a certain baseline for their configurations, and if they find it well, I am more than happy to help that person. The third reason is just in case something happens to one of my laptops or my PC. I suggest that if you have configuration files, you should back them up on your preferred git host.</p> 29 30 <h2>What are in my Dotfiles?</h2> 31 <p>In my Dotfiles, I have created an install script written in Bash that automatically installs all of my configurations and the software I use, giving the end user my setup. I wouldn't suggest the average person use my setup as-is, but rather to take my configs and modify them, thereby making it their own!</p> 32 33 <p>I will not go in-depth about the software I use since I have already done that on the <a href="../../about/software">software</a> page. Instead of including all my software, I have only included the essential software in the install script, as different computers serve different purposes. Additionally, I have programmed a part of the script to install any missing firmware, eliminating those annoying warning messages during package installation. While I can't guarantee this will work on all computers, it has successfully fixed all missing firmware on every computer I've <b>tested it on so far</b>. If you still encounter warning messages, please refer to the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Possibly_missing_firmware_for_module_XXXX">Arch Wiki</a> page to see what firmware you need to install.</p> 34 35 <hr> 36 <h1>News</h1> 37 <h2>Changing to starship and other improvments!</h2> <h3>Date: 21-08-2024</h3> 38 <p>It has been a month since the last update, and right now, as of today, I have finished a pretty big part of my Dotfiles! So I have switched my terminal emulator from <a href="https://alacritty.org/">Alacritty</a> to <a href="https://st.suckless.org/">st</a> by Suckless Software. The reason why I have done this is because St is just way lighter than Alacritty. I have also got the ranger configuration to work on the first install, which is amazing! And I have switched from synth-shell to starship because it is just more fun to mess around with. But that is all for this update!</p> 39 <hr> 40 41 <h2><u>Fixing Ownership of directories and files</u></h2><h3>Date: 22-7-2024</h3> 42 <p style="margin-bottom: 60px;">Yesterday I tested the config again because I reinstalled arch on my laptop, and I noticed a problem when I wanted to change a config, it was readonly becasue mt user did not have access to the file, this is the same for the wallpaper file. So to fix this I have added a line in the install file that fixes this issue.</p> 43 <hr> 44 45 <h2><u>Stable install (mostly)</u></h2><h3>Date: 20-7-2024</h3> 46 <p>Today, I tested my install script on my test computer, and it went smoothly. I only found one problem, which was easily fixed: I forgot to use the -r option when copying files to the .config directory. The only remaining issue is with the ranger config, but apart from that, the install script is stable for anybody to use.</p> 47 </main> 48 </body> 49 </html> 50