About

This is a unified repo for some of my configuration files. A main idea is to consistenly use

• Solarized as a color scheme, mostly in its light variant
• DejaVu Sans Mono as a font, since looks good and has the best Unicode support of monospaced fonts, AFAIK (at least when it comes to strange operators in programming languages...)
• JuliaMone in Emacs (I’d fully switch to it, but there currently does not exist a Powerline patched variant). It has been designed specifically for programming in Julia, but that just means that it is a well-designed programming font developed for Unicode-heavy languages.

It mostly stores my settings for zsh with OhMyZsh and Powerlevel9k and my Emacs file.

Installations

Fonts

• JuliaMone from here
• DejaVu Sans Mono from here
• For terminals: the Powerline patched variant from here (I do that manually, but there's a script, too).
• Add Awesome Terminal Fonts for additional fallback symbols: clone the repo and run install.sh

Github CLI

Get from here

ZSH

See here. To make it the default shell: chsh -s $(which zsh).

Now, link the file zshrc from here to ~/.zshrc.

OhMyZsh

See here; basically, just

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

For zsh-completions, giving load of completions, also clone the following:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-completions

To get conda completion, add files to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-completions/src:

• Conda: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esc/conda-zsh-completion/master/_conda
• Hub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/hub/master/etc/hub.zsh_completion

Powerlevel9k

See here:

git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel9k

A list of all available prompt segments is given here; my settings use

POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(context dir custom_python vcs)
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status history background_jobs)

Other tools

• exa
• fzf, fzf-zsh
• diff-so-fancy
• bat

Solarized for Xfce terminal

See here; simply paste the file from there into ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc.

Guake has several variants of the Solarized scheme built in, as has Gnome Terminal.

Julia Packages

For the .juliarc.jl. Depending on what you want to use, call

• Pkg.add("OhMyREPL") (for improved REPL features)
• Pkg.add("Revise") (for automatic module reloading) in the Julia shell.

Xmonad

(I’m not currently using this, but keep it for future reference.)

• Install xmonad using stack
• Install dmenu: sudo apt-get install suckless-tools
• Install xmobar: stack install --flag xmobar:all_all_extensions xmobar

This blog and this introduction is quite useful in general.

Borg

The ./borg directory contains my borgmatic configuration for backups on my NAS etc. It is set up in repokey mode.

Steps to reproduce:

• Install Borg locally and on the server.

• (In case you use a NAS, create a user for backups and make sure he has a home directory.)

• Add an SSH key to the server. Make sure that the .ssh directory has the right restricted permissions (debug by running sshd -d -p 1234 on the server and connecting to that port) and access is working.

• The passphrase is stored locally in a file which needs to be set up appropriately.

• Maybe the remote borg does not run under that name, so the remote_path is explicitely set.

• (Link the keys directory (storage.borg_keys_directory) to some place on which you back up the key file, if you use that.)

• To run every hour, add the following line with crontab -e:

  0 * * * * /usr/bin/borgmatic --config $HOME/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml --syslog-verbosity 1