Hannes Körber
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The script genconfig.bash concatenates the main configuration file with
a host specific one to create a session-specific configration file that
is then passed to i3. It therefore has to be called in .xinitrc or
something comparable before starting i3. If no host specific
configuration is found, a default file will be used instead. This is
useful for providing default that should not go into the main
configuration file, maybe because they are incompatible with some host
specific settings. For example a default bar{} block goes there, as if
this was in the main config, two i3bar instances would be started when a
host specific config specifies its own.
dotfiles
========
My configuration files.
Installation
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1. ``git clone git://github.com:whatevsz/dotfiles ~/dotfiles``
2. ``bash ~/dotfiles/scripts/makesymlinks.bash``
``makesymlinks,bash`` will back up all configuration files that would otherwise
be overridden and then symlink the content of all folders specified in $symlink_folders
into $HOME or the desired destination given in MAPPING, if present.
If you want to use a different directory instead of ``~/dotfiles``, just alter the first
line and replace ``~/dotfiles`` with the desired destination, and change the line
``config_dir="$HOME/dotfiles/"`` in ``scripts/makesymlinks.bash`` accordingly. You can
also choose a different folder for the backup of old files (default being ``~/.dotfiles,bak``
by altering ``backup_dir`` in ``scripts/makesymlinks.bash`` to your needs.
Structure
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- ``scripts/`` - Scripts for setting up the configuration.
- ``MAPPING`` - File that contains mapping directives.
- All other folders - These are the folders that contain the configuration files.
Mapping
-------
If you have configuration folder that is not located directly in $HOME,
but some subfolder (~/.config being a popular example), you
can tell the setup script to place the contents of that folder into an
arbitrary subfolder of $HOME. To do so, place an entry into ``MAPPING``. It has
the following format::
<name of the configuration folder>::<root for that folder relative to $HOME>
Example::
terminator::.config/
This will place the contents of the folder ``dotfiles/terminator`` into ``~/.config/``
When you provide multiple lines for the same folder, the first one that matches
will be used.