Dotfiles

Installation

git clone https://github.com/cferriter/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./install.sh

Existing dotfiles are backed up in ~/dotfiles_old/.

Useful Links

Includes some repos used as inspiration.

• GitHub Dotfiles: GitHub guide to dotfiles.
• Dotfiles: Copied makesymlinks.sh script from here.
• Other Dotfiles: Copied automatic vim-plug download logic from here.
• Solarized Modern PuTTY Defaults: Copied PuTTY Windows registry (.reg) file here.
• Bash startup files: Explains the loading order of Bash files.
• Vim Awesome: Vim plugin directory.
• Why Vim?: Useful article with Vim usage examples.
• idiomatic-vimrc: .vimrc guidelines.
• System clipboard and Vim: Explains some of the intricacies behind using the system clipboard and Vim as well as SSHing.
• universal-ctags: A more capable ctags implementation.
• SSH keys and Pageant with Windows 10: Explains how to use Pageant for SSH key authentication when using SSH to access remote servers.

Test installation of dotfiles

install.sh can be tested using Docker. Build and run with:

docker build -t dotfiles-test . && docker run -it dotfiles-test

Configure Windows Terminal for SSH

Key-based authentication

Follow steps from this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_keymanagement

For the last step, "Deploying the public key", use the following command in PowerShell to deploy the public key onto a Linux machine:

type $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub | ssh user@hostname "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"

Download and install Xming X Server for Windows

• Download from here.
• Press Windows, type xming, right click and Open file location.
• Create a shortcut for the Xming binary.
• Open the Windows startup folder by pressing Windows + R and typing shell:common startup.
• Place the Xming shortcut in the Windows startup folder.

Install and configure Kanata for Windows

• Download the latest kanata_gui.exe from kanata releases.
• Move the binary to C:\Users\cferrite\AppData\Roaming\kanata\kanata_gui.exe.
• git clone this repo to WSL /root.
• Run create_win_symlinks.sh to symlink kanata.kbd to the same location as kanata_gui.exe.
• Open the Windows startup folder by pressing Windows + R and typing shell:common startup.
• Create a shortcut for kanata_gui.exe in the Windows File Explorer and put it in the Windows startup folder.