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RaphaelLamperouge

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 16

Recommendation for terminal junkie setup?

I decided I'm going to reinstall to take more control over my machine, I read a lot about it but I'll still put /home on git directly (ignoring the xdg dirs), the reason is because I'm tired of seeing directories and configuration files from an application I tried like 3 weeks ago clogging my /home directory. If something shows up and I didn't install anything I should be able to just git clean -fd. It should also make it easy to branch my dotfiles and apply patches for other machines.
I'll also install i3 and leave GNOME.

Would you recommend me something else?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: Recommendation for terminal junkie setup?

If you're going to ignore all the xdg directories then you won't be versioning any of your configs, they mostly all live in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR (~/.config).

I'd recommend taking a look at dotbot for organising your dotfiles, It's made my life a lot easier.
Take a look at my dotfiles (link in sig) to see what I mean.

Last edited by Slithery (2015-09-08 19:36:52)

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Alad

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Re: Recommendation for terminal junkie setup?

Simpler way:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … _gitignore

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RaphaelLamperouge

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 16

Re: Recommendation for terminal junkie setup?

If you're going to ignore all the xdg directories then you won't be versioning any of your configs, they mostly all live in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR (~/.config).

I'd recommend taking a look at dotbot for organising your dotfiles, It's made my life a lot easier.
Take a look at my dotfiles (link in sig) to see what I mean.

Oh never noticed .config was a xdg directory.
But I was planning on manually adding Desktop/Documents/Images/Videos to .gitignore.

The symlink approach is nice, especially with GNU Stow but it has the downside of not actually putting home on Version Control so if an application creates a configuration folder/file on your home directory you wouldn't even notice it.

That's also why I'll ignore files instead of adding them.