Personal repository of dotfiles. This is for those settings that migrate well from machine to machine and that I consider safe to publish. You’re welcome to use them, and there’s an attempt to keep my own personal data out of the files, but you’ll probably want to fork it to remove anything peculiar to my setup that I’ve left in here. In particular I think my git and pianobar configs have my user info in it, but everything else should be fairly generic.

$ git clone git://github.com/bitdagger/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

It’s more likely you’ll want to read the configuration files and find snippets relevant to your particular workflow.

My prompt currently looks like this:

By default it will show the following:
[currentTime]-[user@Host:tty]-[cpuLoad]-[memoryUsage]-[jobs]-[battery]-[wifi]
[git]-[pwd]-[errorCode]
-$

It expands based on context to show as much pertinent information as possible, but will hide information that is not currently relevant. For example if there are no jobs running, then the jobs counter will be hidden. If it can't find a battery or wifi interface then it will hide those. If you're not in a git repository then it hides that. If the last errorcode was zero then it hides that.

Additionally the prompt will re-color itself based on the context in which it was created. If spawned by the superuser the framing color will change from blue to red. If the active terminal is via an SSH session the framing color will change from blue to green, and the user@hostname text will change to red.

The normal colors of the prompt will also gracefully degrade to more limited color options for 8-color and no-color terminals, while the UTF-8 framing and icons will degrade to simple ASCII if UTF-8 is not supported.

You can get a simpler prompt by calling prompt simple. This removes most of the dynamic information, leaving you with only the time, user@hostname:tty, git, pwd, and errorcode. If you need a barebones prompt, you can get a simple $ prompt by calling prompt off. Reverting back to the full-featured prompt is done by calling prompt on. Additionally, if you need to disable the git information for either the full prompt or the simple prompt you can use the prompt git off command, and similarly re-enable it with prompt git on.

Here's some pictures:

Long directory

Error

Git repository

Jobs running

SSH session

Root prompt

Simple prompt

Prompt off

The installation Makefile will overwrite things standing in the way of its installed files without backing them up, so read the output of make -n install first to make sure you aren’t going to lose anything unexpected. Even better, if you’re still not sure, give it a temporary directory to which it can install to check things out:

$ mktemp -d
/tmp/tmp.YZFW8ScFZP
$ make install HOME=/tmp/tmp.YZFW8ScFZP

To install, use the following:

$ make install

There are a few optional configuration files such as pianobar and sublime that are not installed with the core install. These have their own individual installation via make install-pianobar and make install-sublime3 respectively. Xorg config can also be installed via make install-X.

A quick test is performed on all the shell scripts before installation to ensure they will source correctly and return with a zero status. You can manually run the test yourself if you like via make test.

You can remove everything make install installs by running make distclean.

Keep in mind that this will remove everything entirely, even if you've made any changes of your own. Run make -n distclean to see what it will remove before you commit to running the clean.

Any of the optional installations have their own clean targets via make clean-pianobar, make clean-sublime3, and make clean-X.

Public domain; see the included UNLICENSE file. It’s just configuration, do whatever you like with it if any of it’s useful to you.