dotfiles

This is the repository that stores personal settings for Chad Skeeters.

This can be installed with

cd ~
git clone ...
cd dotfiles
./install

To install settings on computers not connected to the internet, install from a dotfiles folder where offline files have been previously downloaded.

On existing machine:

cd [USB_MOUNT]
tar -zcf dotfiles.tgz ~/dotfiles

On new machine:

cd
tar -zxf [USB_MOUNT]/dotfiles.tgz
cd dotfiles
./install

Capslock to Escape

To map caps lock to escape for the tty:

sudo loadkeys caps-escape.kmap

If running in X, you can setup the keybord with setxkbmap or dconf.

setxkbmap -option caps:escape

To install dconf under Debian, run:

sudo apt-get install dconf-cli

To make the setting perminant, run this command.

dconf write "/org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options" "['caps:escape']"