Questions tagged [dotfiles]
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change mutt indicator color when hovering a new message
I want to change the color of the text when hovering a new message in mutts index.
Right now I have
color indicator color111 color236 #indicator line
and
color index color082 color237 ~N # ...
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GNU stow. Only symlink files, not directories
I'd like to manage my dotfiles with a Git repository and stow. Here is my current repository that includes the files/directories I'd like to stow and a Makefile with the command I'm using make stow.
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How to store confidential info whilst using dot files framework
I'm trying to come up with a strategy to store my dotfiles in Git. So far, I've create a dotfiles repo on GitHub and I've thrown together an install script which simply clones the repo, then symlinks ...
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Hiding files starting with a dot?
In my C:\Users\Me directory, I see a lot of files starting with a dot and they are not hidden files. I can see them even though I unchecked "show hidden files" box in folder options.
I see some ...
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Why is `~/.zlogout` not sourced when non-interactive ZSH shell runs `exit`?
My ~/.zlogout contains the following:
echo '~/.zlogout!'
Let's run the following script:
su user -ls /bin/zsh -c 'echo kaasbier; exit'
Nothing is echoed (besides the kaasbier). I am testing this in ...
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gnu stow to ignore dirs
I am relatively new in stow (using for last 6 months). While this is working fine for backing up my config files, it is actually storing unwanted files, and not obeying my .stow-local-ignore.
I am ...
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How to reset Windows subsystem for linux bash after modifying it with dotfiles?
I installed 'dotfile' on my windows 'ubuntu' terminal
Now I am not able to work with normal commands like 'git'.
Want to know how to reset my bash file to regain the original terminal.
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Managing multiple subsets of dotfiles
I'm using git to store my dotfiles, but now that I've started using multiple implementations of Linux, I'm finding that my dotfiles between flavors diverge a bit, depending on what I'm using that ...
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How to Keep Dot-Files up to date?
I've got two computers, one at work and one at home. The work one has a VM running Arch, and the home one runs Arch natively. The work one usually stays at work, but push a lot of stuff back and ...
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How to `zcompile` global (system-wide) zsh scripts?
For my local dotfiles I have this snippet at the end of my .zshrc:
for f in ~/.zshrc ~/.zshenv ; do
[ "${f}"(:A) -ot "$f".zwc ] || zcompile "$f"
done
This ensures ...
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What means "bind c screen" in .screenrc config?
I only want to understand what the lines in this .screenrc config does:
bind c screen 1
bind ^c screen 1
bind 0 select 10
screen 1
I found the config here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
Through this my ...
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Hide dot files using ftp with Windows Explorer (Linux backend)
The company who I used to host my websites with has just been sold to another (site5.com), and my websites have been migrated.
With the original company, if one was to view a remote directory using ...
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Problems in customizing the macOS menu bar with MenuSystemUIServer
In my menu bar, I'd like to hide TimeMachine, Volume, Battery, User, Clock and show just Bluetooth, and Airport.
I tried to customize it with an sh script:
for domain in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/...
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Vundle directory automatically copied to dotfiles directory with weird permissions
I just installed mathiasbynens dotfiles (only the bootstrap scripts, not os x default, not that it matters). The bootstrap script copies all the files to ~ folder (not symlink, copy). Anyways, I have ...
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Any way to wipe out everything I have installed via Command Line?
So I have borked my system.
Running OS X 10.8.3, I have installed a mess of stuff; Ruby, RVM, Git, Node, Brew etc... As well as playing with dotfiles (http://dotfiles.github.io/) Which I really ...
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