Dotfiles (macOS)

• Dotfiles (macOS)
  • Personal dotfiles - philosophy
  • First Time Setup on New macOS
  • Installation
    • Clone the repo and update and sync submodules
    • Run installation using dotbot
  • Inspiration

Personal dotfiles - philosophy

Warning: these dotfiles are currently a work in progress (not yet complete). Feel free to take Inspiration from them, but best not to use them as is.

This is a repo of my personal dotfiles for macOS. The main philosophy is to use

• A modern Unix workflow.
• The XDG directory specification.

First Time Setup on New macOS

If this is your first time setting up these dotfiles on a new Mac:

1. Setup Dropbox:

   make setup-dropbox

Follow the on-screen instructions to:

• Sign in to your Dropbox account
• Wait for initial sync to complete
• Verify ~/DROPBOX directory exists and contains your files

2. Install dotfiles (after Dropbox sync completes):

   ./install

For subsequent updates, just run ./install.

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Installation

Clone the repo and update and sync submodules

In order to install these dotfiles, run the following commands:

git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules git@github.com:shamindras/dotfiles.git

Run installation using dotbot

Now the installation script can be executed using dotbot as follows:

make dotbot_install

NOTE: The above make dotbot_install command is just a wrapper for ./install, if you prefer to run this command directly from your terminal.

Inspiration

These dotfiles have been mainly inspired by the following people. I thank them for openly sharing their work.

Dotfile Sources

• Alicia Sykes' dotfiles.
• Mattmc3's zshrc1 config.
• Josh Medeski's dotfiles.
• Josean Martinez's dotfiles and accompanying YouTube videos.
• Shivan's zk config
• Mathias Bynen's dotfiles and in particular his macOS dotfiles.
• Kevin Suttle and his macOS-Defaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.macos. This is inspired by Mathias Bynen's .macos settings.
• Dylan McDowell's zsh config