zscripts is a set of zsh scripts designed for Arch Linux users.

Depending on the script you want to use, you must install some dependencies too:

• update.sh:

  • cronie [optional]
  • dunst [optional]
  • libnotify [optional]

• screen.sh:

  • screen
  • htop
  • nload
  • nvidia-smi

• lock.sh:

  • i3lock
  • imagemagick
  • scrot

Several scripts are also provided to make your life happier:

This script manage packages update. It will check for system updates and also for sources included in the file $UPD_SOURCE_FILE. By default, this file is $HOME/.config/autoUpdateList. This file should contain a list of directory to watch for updates, one per line. You can also add tags using # to manage how update will be managed. there is actually four tag supported:

• #master optional: this is the default behaviour, update this git repository to any new commit only if the current branch is master.
• #aur optional: for aur repository, the script will automatically detect them even without the tag.
• #branch: update the current branch of this git repository, even if not on master
• #tag: update the current git repository only to new tagged version

Here is an example of such file:

$HOME/.config/zscript
$HOME/.config/zsh#master
$HOME/Software/aur/package1
$HOME/Software/aur/package2#aur
$HOME/Software/work/my_project#branch
$HOME/Software/lib/lib_release#tag

Here, scripts in .config asould be on master and so can be updated automatically (same with and without the tag). The AUR packages are also watched for update (with and without the tag). Then, my_project/ can be updated no matter which branch is the current one and the lib_release/ will be updated only on new tagged version.

This script check for update without touching any folder. This allows the check for update to run in the background, like in a cron tab. Here is an example of a cron to check for updates every hour:

0 * * * * $HOME/zscripts/update.sh

This script is designed to be sourced in the .zshrc configuration file like the following:

source $HOME/zscripts/screen.sh

It is able to detect and load pre-configured GNU screen sessions.

This script lock the screen and use a blurred screenshot image as lockscreen image. An optional image (e.g. a logo) can be added at the center.

Each script can be customized through different variables, take a look at the beginning of each script after the section Configuration variables. Feel free to modify these variables to suit your needs in a user configuration file.

By default, the script will try to source the file $HOME/.zscripts.conf else it will use the content of the environment variable $ZSCRIPTS_CONFIG_FILE to get the path of the file.

It is strongly recommended to use the default path $HOME/.zscripts.conf to store user variables for consistency reasons. In fact, the access to an environment variable depends on where it has been defined, e.g. by default, cron won't have access to a variable defined in .zshrc.

• [update] load user configuration file
• [update] avoid redundant package updates