Dotfiles

• Here I put all the configuration files that stray away from defaults
• This repo is made to be put inside the $home/.config folder
• Used on windows 11 and linux (omarchy)

Omarchy

Installation

• oh-my-posh (pacman)

Dependencies

• sesh-bin (aur). for tmux sesh plugin
• entr (pacman). for tmux-autoreload

Setup

• Clone this repo into ~/.config

git clone https://github.com/erlestor/dotfiles /tmp/dotfiles-tmp # Clone to a temp location
mv /tmp/dotfiles-tmp/.git ~/.config/ # Drop the .git folder into .config — making it the repo
cd ~/.config
git status # Preview what git sees before touching anything
git reset --hard HEAD # Overwrite tracked files with repo versions, leave everything else alone
rm -rf /tmp/dotfiles-tmp # Clean up the temp dir

• Install these packages: cpio, cmake, git, meson and gcc
• Run these commands

hyprpm add https://github.com/zjeffer/split-monitor-workspaces # Add the plugin repository
hyprpm enable split-monitor-workspaces # Enable the plugin
hyprpm reload # Reload the plugins

• Delete ~/.bashrc and add the following line to ~/.bash_profile

[[ -f ~/.config/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.config/.bashrc

• Run this to install tpm (tmux plugin manager)

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.config/tmux/plugins/tpm

• Load tmux plugins: open terminal and press "prefix + I"

MCSR

• Install hyprmcsr, prismlauncher (pacman) and keyd (pacman)
• Follow keyd instructions closely. And restart after usermod command
• This is my /etc/keyd/default.conf:

[ids]

*

[main]

• Set up your instance
• Set up ninjabrainbot. See this video for boat eye settings
• If sensitivity setting doesn't work. Install solaar and see: this issue. Just one command is needed
• My window rules in hyprland and commands in hyprmcsr config are very specific. So double check those

Fix mongodb compass not saving passwords

• Run:

cp /usr/share/applications/mongodb-compass.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/mongodb-compass.desktop
nvim ~/.local/share/applications/mongodb-compass.desktop

• Change the Exec line to:

Exec=mongodb-compass --password-store=gnome-libsecret --ignore-additional-command-line-flags %U

Arduino IDE setup

• Install arduino-ide-bin (pacman)
• Follow section 2.1 in the arch wiki
• Run:

cp /usr/share/applications/arduino-ide-v2.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/arduino-ide-v2.desktop
nvim ~/.local/share/applications/arduino-ide-v2.desktop

• Change the Exec line to:

Exec=arduino-ide %U --ozone-platform=x11

Windows

Installation

Prefer winget if you can

• Neovim
  • Follow instructions, up until nvchad specific config
  • Run npm i -g tree-sitter-cli
• Wezterm (winget)
• Powershell 7 (winget)
• Autohotkey v2 (exe)
• Yasb
  • Run and enable autostart
• Komorebi
  • Make a startup script with target: "C:\Program Files\komorebi\bin\komorebic.exe" start --ahk
• everything (I used exe, but try winget)
• everything powertoys plugin (I used exe, but try winget)
• zoxide (winget)
• fzf (winget)
• oh-my-posh (winget)

Setup

• Clone this repo into ´~/.config´
• Make sure to add powershell 7 to path and remove system32 powershell path
• Add these environment variables (via windows search -> environment variables):

KOMOREBI_AHK_EXE = "C:/Program Files/AutoHotkey/v2/AutoHotkey64";
KOMOREBI_CONFIG_HOME = "C:\Users\erlen\.config\komorebi";

• Make these soft symlinks (delete any file/folder which exists already at that location):

~/.config/nvim -> ~/appdata/local/nvim
~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1 -> ~/documents/powershell/profile.ps1
~/.config/windows-startup/hotkeys.ahk -> ~/appdata/roaming/microsoft/windows/start menu/programs/startup/hotkeys.ahk

How to symlink

Open powershell as administrator and run:

New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path c:/users/xxx/xxx -Target c:/users/xxx/.config/xxx