Dotfiles

I don't want to waste time setting up my machines, so I spent years maintaining dotfiles.

Dotfiles are meant to be forked, but mine aren't. These scripts install many things you won't ever use. Feel free to look around and copy some of my script to fit your needs.

Chezmoi

The latest version of my dotfiles are managed with Chezmoi. I was using Dotbot & Ansible before.

TODOs

• Fix Fish shell broken in clean install
• Add Homebrew install script (run-once)
• Update this readme
• Cleanup dotbot
• Linux / Github Codespaces install scripts
• Github Codespaces for development
• Fish
• Documentation website
• Instructions to import GPG keys
• 1password integration

Usage

ASK=1 sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/narze/dotfiles/master/remote_install.sh) -k -v"

First installation will ask for your name so you can customize a bit, and it will skip the encryped files, since you have to retrieve the GPG private key manually later. Removing ASK=1 will use my names for the machine.

Mostly the script will not run completely on the first go, run chezmoi -k apply again until everything is setup properly.

After the first installation you can always change the variables via ASK=1 chezmoi init or run chezmoi edit-config

To change the data or script, chezmoi cd, edit them, then run chezmoi apply.

Manual tasks (One-time per machine)

• macOS
  • Run Setapp installer manually after the brew script is run.
  • Login to App Store before running (If not mas will skip installation and open the App Store for you)
  • Preferences -> Change input source switch to CMD+Space, and Spotlight search to Option+Space
  • Run mackup restore once after iCloud is synced
  • Connect to Tailscale to mount NAS
  • Disable Boom 3D keyboard shortcuts
  • Set enrcyption password SETPASS=1 chezmoi init

Features

$ make
help                           Print command list
dotfiles                       Update dotfiles
apply                          Run chezmoi apply
macos                          Run macos script

Installed Applications & Tools

• macOS
  • Homebrew
  • Homebrew Cask
  • Mas
  • Chezmoi
  • zsh with zsh4humans + Powerlevel10k theme
  • fish with fisher + Tide theme
  • mise
  • zellij
  • macOS defaults
  • etc.
• Linux
  • Dotfiles only

Notes (If you have some time to read)

Zsh + Fish

After the recent drama with Zinit, I decided to give Fish a try, it is good but I also want to still maintain my Zsh configuration. I migrated the settings to zsh4human which is maintained by the one who made Powerlevel10k. It's 2-3x faster than Zinit as of now.

I'll separate the dotfiles script to install zsh or fish separately to save some space. You can also install both like mine.

Development on Github Codespaces

• chezmoi cd (Change directory into ~/.local/share/chezmoi)
• Update config and/or scripts
• chezmoi apply -k (--keep-going)

Apple Silicon

Here are the list of issues I've found on running the script on M1 Macbooks (Tested on both Macbook Air & Macbook Pro)

• dotbot/brew fails silently : Now they need XCode to be installed first (via App Store), rather than just XCode CLT Seems to be fixed now

• Kitty.app installing binaries from Homebrew does get you x86, now you have to Build from source

  • ghq get -l kovidgoyal/kitty
    /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 setup.py kitty.app # Needs python3 from brew
    cp -r kitty.app /Applications/kitty.app
    
    # Replace CLI
    rm /opt/homebrew/bin/kitty
    ln -s $PWD/kitty/launcher/kitty /opt/homebrew/bin/kitty

  • If you want both versions, download the executable and rename it (kitty_x86.app)

• Docker for Mac : Replace with Tech Preview version

• Some brew/asdf packages cannot be installed on arm64 See "Apple Silicon specific commands"

• Setup both versions of Homebrew, then use shell script to point to the correct brew

  # Install both versions
  arch -arm64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  
  # .zshrc
  if [ "$(uname -m)" == "arm64" ]; then
    # Use arm64 brew, with fallback to x86 brew
    if [ -f /opt/homebrew/bin/brew ]; then
      export PATH="/usr/local/bin${PATH+:$PATH}";
      eval $(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)
    fi
  else
    # Use x86 brew, with fallback to arm64 brew
    if [ -f /usr/local/bin/brew ]; then
      export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin${PATH+:$PATH}";
      eval $(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)
    fi
  fi

• Rubygems : Specific bundler config is needed (See bundle config)

• Yabai : Cannot use space switch commands (eg. yabai -m space --focus 1) even if SIP is disabled

  Workaround

  Setup native shortcut keys manually and use non-consuming shortcut settings (->) in skhd

Apple Silicon specific commands

• make brew-x86 : Install packages which cannot be instaled with arm64 arch right now (eg. kubectl, kubectx Both are now supported!)