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My set of personal configuration files

Over the years, I've gotten used to reinstalling and setting up my environments, most of the time I try to stick to default settings and when I find something that doesn't do what I need it to do, I do some research to set things up my own way.

This had some advantages, namely I was forced to stay up to date with newer technologies and practices instead of being locked in an old way of doing things.

Unfortunately this is not always efficient and some things are lost in time, which is a shame. In this project, I'm managing and documenting my environment, so that I can reinstall linux and even try different Distributions and my environment will remain the same.

My stack is around using the following apps/tools:

• kitty
• tmux
• neovim

One particular key piece of my workflow is that

• Control+Shift+ArrowKeys move between Kitty tabs
• Control+Shift+[<>] move kitty tabs around
• Control+ArrowKeys move between tmux's tabs
• Control+Alt+ArrowKeys move tmux tabs around
• Control+Win+ArrowKeys move between KDE virtual desktops
• Control+Win+Shift+ArrowKeys move current window between virtual desktops

mise

First and foremost, I install this package manager, mise, following the instructions from their website

I then install the software I use:

for plugin in golang lazygit neovim nodejs rust tmux tree-sitter
do mise use --global $plugin@latest
done

Configuration files

You can install all configuration directories with this:

for app in kitty nvim environment.d git yazi
do ln -s $(pwd)/config/$app ~/.config/
done

tmux

tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which means I can have multiple shell command lines in a single window/connection.

Install:

ln -s $(pwd)/config/tmux ~/.config/

Please review then keyboard bindings

shortcut	Description
Control+A ?	List all keybindings
Control+A :new-session	Create new session
Control+A $	rename current session
Control+A w	List windows (tmux tabs)
Control+A s	List sessions
Control+A d	Detach from tmux
Control+A c	Create a new window (a tmux tab)
Control+A ,	Rename current window (tmux tab)
Control+A -	Split pane vertically
Control+A _	Split pane horizontally
Shift+ArrowKeys	activate left/right window
Shift+Alt+ArrowKeys	Switch this window with the one on the left/right

I recommend launching tmux and having multiple sessions locally and moving through them in the local tmux terminal, and having new terminal tabs each for a different remote server. Hence each tab is a different computer, each one with a tmux instance managing multiple shells and persistence.

kitty

My favorite terminal emulator right now, Kitty, it can be downloaded from the Kitty Website or you can use the update_kitty script included in this repo.

Install:

ln -s $(pwd)/config/kitty ~/.config/

Please review the Keyboard bindings pressing Control+Shift+F1

Kitty's prefix is Control+Shift

shortcut	Description
Control+Shift+t	New tab
Control+Shift+ArrowKeys	Move to the previous/next tab
Control+Shift+[<>]	Reorder current tab to the left/right
Control+Shift+Enter	New pane
Control+Shift+[]	Prev/Next pane
Control+Shift+F2	Edit kitty.conf
Control+Shift+F5	Reload config

neovim

I use KickStart.nvim to setup my vim environment, it's easy to install and makes vim super good.

Install:

ln -s $(pwd)/config/nvim ~/.config/

vim's prefix is space in command mode. (It's actually called leader in vim, but I'm using prefix here)

For more spell checking options check this blog post

Steam Deck

Enable ssh-agent systemd service

systemctl --user enable --now ssh-agent.service

Install the kitty terminfo

cp config/kitty/terminfo ~/.terminfo