My dotfiles

This directory contains the dotfiles for my system

Requirements

Ensure you have the following installed on your system

Depending on your OS:

• Mac use Brew
• Linux/WSL2 use your package manager (sudo apt install, pacman -S etc.)

Tmux Plugin Manager (TPM)

This repo uses TPM to manage tmux plugins, including colorschemes and key bindings.

You need to install TPM manually by cloning it to your local tmux plugins directory:

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

Git

brew install git

Stow

brew install stow

Installation

First, clone out the dotfiles repo in your $HOME directory using git

git clone [email protected]/rosscondie/.dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles

then use GNU stow to create symlinks

stow .

Side Note: ⚠️

Using GNU Stow with .local on WSL2 vs macOS

On macOS running stow .local inside the .dotfiles directory worked as expected.

However on Ubuntu/WSL2 it seems GNU Stow treats .local as a package folder (i.e. it tries to create ~/bin instead of ~/.local/bin).

To get around this run stow with the --target option to specify the target directory:

stow --target=$HOME/.local .local

After stowing tmux config, ensure TPM is intalled and plugins are loaded:

tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Then inside a tmux session press prefix + I to install plugins.

Check .tmux.conf for the prefix key binding. It is usually set to Ctrl + b but I find Ctrl + a works better for me.