Chezmoi Managed Dotfiles

17-Sep-2024

My cross-distribution Linux dotfiles managed by chezmoi.

Applications

Here's the list of application configurations managed by Chezmoi:

• bash
• GNOME desktop shortcuts (installed manually)
• Helix
• lazygit
• neovim
• nushell
• recoll
• Remmina
• tmux
• Vim
• Vimium (installed manually)
• zsh

Installing and updating on secondary machines from Github repository

My desktop machines NFS-mount my shared documents directory to ~/share; the local chezmoi repository is in ~/share/projects/chezmoi and it's just a matter of:

1. Copying the ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml file from the primary desktop PC which points chezmoi to the shared NFS location.
2. Run chezmoi apply to copy the chezmoi source files to their target locations.

Machines that do not have access to the NFS projects directory mounts

See Using chezmoi across multiple machines in ~/share/notes/chezmoi-notes.md.

Manually Exported/Imported Configurations

The exported directory contains files that are managed manually:

Browser Bookmarks

Exported from Brave browser.

• Open Bookmarks Manager (C-S-o).
• Run the Export bookmarks command in the ⋮ menu (vertical ellipsis menu, top right) and save bookmarks file to ~/.local/share/chezmoi/exported/bookmarks.html.

GNOME Desktop key bindings

• Export GNOME custom key bindings with:

  chezmoi-dump-gnome-bindings     # Alias
  
  dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/ > exported/wm-keybindings.dconf && \
  dconf dump /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/ > exported/media-keys-keybindings.dconf && \
  dconf dump /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/ > exported/shell-keybindings.dconf
  

• Use the dconf load command to restore custom GNOME key binding from the dump file. See ./exported/post-install-config.sh for details.

dconf load /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/ < exported/wm-keybindings.dconf && \
dconf load /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/ < exported/media-keys-keybindings.dconf && \
dconf load /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/ < exported/shell-keybindings.dconf

Vimium Options

The Vimium browser extension options are in the vimium-options.json file. Manually save and restore them using the backup and restore commands on the Backup and Restore section of the Vimium extension Options page.