WARNING:

These are some of MY configuration files. While they are public they are not intended to work perfectly on your machine. Especially don't expect the setup_env.sh script work on your machine. It barely works here.

That being said - feel free to copy whatever you need.

setup_env.sh

This script creates symbolic links from the home directory and subdirs to the files in this repository. If a file on the top level repository exists with a name dot.<something> a link will be created in $HOME. E.g. ~/.gitconfig -> /home/ruschi/dotfiles/VillaStraylight/dot.gitconfig

It also creates links to files from subdirectories (dot.config dot.gnupg dot.emacs.d dot.ssh) of this repository. The script should take care of creating sub-directories for the links if the source file is in a sub-directory of these directories. E.g.

~/.config/i3/config -> ~/dotfiles/dot.config/i3/config

The script automatically created the directory ~/.config/i3/.

I chose only some files like configuration to be included in the repository. Other files, like keys will remain on the machine.

options

• -w Sets an override directory. Not all machines are equal. Sometimes I have different configurations for different machines, e.g. .gitconfig at work. To override /dot.gitconfig on a machine foo create a file called /foo/dot.gitconfig and run the setup_env.sh -w foo on the machine foo.
  In this case machine foo will create all common links but ~/.gitconfig will point to dotfiles/foo/dot.gitconfig This only works with configuration files present in the main directory tree. It does not add new files.

• -f force links. If a link already exists it will be overwritten without asking. USE WITH CARE

• -n Dry run. Do not create links. This still sets up mail and gpg - USE WITH CARE

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Systemd notes

• The i3lock service can be executed before suspend by systemd. copy ./[email protected] to /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] and enable it for the user: systemctl enable [email protected]

Notes on sway/wayland

Wayland is not X11 hence sway does not read .xsessionrc. It also behave differently in some other points I haven't fully understood yet.

1. Environment variables. I have no idea why .zshenv is sourced in sway but it is. according to docs it should not because programs are not started by a shell. The way to go should be .config/environment.d/xx-yy.conf. But it seems these file(s) are not used at all.
2. D-Bus environment variable. For unknown reason pinentry for gpg stopped working with the error "No Gcr System Prompter available". The workaround was to add dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DISPLAY to the sway startup file.
3. SSH agent authentication using gpg agent stopped working at some point. Something caused SSH_AUTH_SOCK to be wrong/empty. The workaround was to add

   export SSH_AGENT_PID=
   export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/ssh-agent.socket"
   

   to .zshenv.local
4. If the package xdg-desktop-portal-* is installed. Firefox, waybar etc are dead slow in starting up.

Secrets

I try do phase out gpg. Currently KeepassXC my secrets provider of choice as it can serve as ssh-agent and as freedesktop secrets provider.

Emacs (mu4e and gnus-smtp) can use KeepassXC secrets. The secret is stored in the "default collection". To make it work I created a group which is exported via freedesktop and added an entry with attributes. Emacs searches for an entry with port and host attributes. It does not use the "UserName" from keepass but uses an additional attribute user for the login. The password is taken form the password field of the entry.