Dotfiles

Dotfiles for my Fedora workstation. They include the most important configurations of the tools I use all the time and an Ansible playbook to set most of it up. This is not a visual rice, this is a workflow rice.

I use taskwarrior, bash, tmux and most importantly: neovim.

included in the playbook roles:

• backup: restic backup systemd services and timers
• bash: bashrc and config
• devtools: installation of packages and setup for git
• fonts: fonts I like to use
• gnome: configuration of gonme shortcuts and settings
• util_scripts: scripts I use to automate small things
• xdg_config: the real "dotfile" part of the repo, contains configs of neovim, tmux, ...

not included:

• GNOME terminal settings
  • basically just turn off the bell and scrolling and use the JetBrains font with size 14
• commit signing with gpg

git

I use different ssh keys for GitHub and Bitbucket, but since almost all my repos are on GitHub this key is the default. For the repos that need a different key use git config --local core.sshCommand "ssh -i /path/to/private_key" to change the local config.

The GitHub fingerprint can be found here.

sign commits

Signing commits is not required and uses a password so I didn't include it in the playbook. But GiHub has very helpful articles on how to generate a gpg key and how to tell git to use the key. git config --global commit.gpgsign true enables signing commits and git config --global user.signingkey <key-id> tells git what key id to use.

restic backup

My backups are done with restic, a tool for encrypted incremental backups that supports backups to external harddrives, sftp servers and even object stores.

I don't want to have to think about my backups so I automatically run the backup to the remote repo once per day via a systemd service with timer. The backup to the local drive starts everytime the drive is plugged in.

The playbook automatically asks for the location of the local and remote restic-repositories and a password. The backup to a local harddrive triggers on the systemd mount events, you have to change the mount id of the drive you want to trigger on.

neovim

My neovim config really is nothing special. It is more or less a setup of some nice plugins with all the neovim builtin goodness (lsp + treesitter).

small tools

Some tools for things I have to do often and find annoying:

take quick note without getting distracted

I often have random ideas about things completely unrelated to the stuff I am currently doing. So I wrote a script that opens a new buffer in nvim with the current date as filename and adds a line in it with the current time each time I open it. With a keymapping that opens this buffer in a floating window I can dump my ideas and have them in a chronological order to later sort stuff out.

switch between projects

This tool is basically just a handy switcher between tmux sessions. It populates a fzf search with projects in configured directories and then switches to a tmux session fitting to the project name. If none exists a new one is created.

keybindings

desktop/workspaces

Fedora uses GNOME and I use some custom vim and i3-like keybindings. Switching between workspaces and moving windows between workspaces is bound to (Shift) + Alt + [hjkl].

For quick terminal access i mapped Alt+Enter to start a new termainal and Alt+n to open my quick notes thing.

terminal

• fzf keybindings (for example Alt + c)
• Ctrl + f for the project switcher

tmux

I use the default Ctrl + b leader and then added some vim-like bindings to switch between panes and added leader + Enter to open a new split pane.