dotfiles/notes/setup.md

Setup Windows

• map caps to left-ctrl using https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/
• install git for windows
• edit ~/.profile and add source ~/.bashrc
• after installing dotfiles, edit ~/.gitconfig and change the editor to be vim instead of /usr/bin/vim

Setup Arch

• Full disk encryption with Veracrypt

• Store /tmp in RAM

• Move browser cache directories to /tmp as a means of reducing file writes on SSD

• Fix fonts by placing the following XML into /etc/fonts/conf.avail/29-prettify.conf and then symlinking: ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/29-prettify.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/29-prettify.conf

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
   <fontconfig>
   <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
       <const>rgb</const>
     </edit>
   </match>
   <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
       <bool>true</bool>
     </edit>
   </match>
   <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
       <const>hintslight</const>
     </edit>
   </match>
   <match target="font" >
     <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
       <bool>true</bool>
     </edit>
   </match>
   <match target="font">
     <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
       <const>lcddefault</const>
     </edit>
   </match>
  </fontconfig>
  

Map caps to left-ctrl

• Most promising method

  • Install xorg-xmodmap
  • Map linux/home/Xmodmap to ~/
  • The above taken from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xmodmap

• Second method: map caps key to left-ctrl (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes for details)

  • edit /etc/udev/hwdb.d/10-my-modifiers.hwdb
  • add:

  evdev:atkbd:dmi:*            # built-in keyboard: match all AT keyboards for now
   KEYBOARD_KEY_3a=leftctrl     # bind capslock to leftctrl
  

  • run udevadm hwdb --update then reboot

Install clipboard getter

• pi xsel
• Now we can grab clipboard content in vim using :read !xsel --clipboard --output

Setting up Ruby

• Install rvm
• Install bundler
• Install Ruby Docs gem install rdoc-data rdoc-data --install

  to regenerate all gem docs

  gem rdoc --all --overwrite

Setup Vim

Map to in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys. Now can leave insert mode.

Setup Git

Vim might not work properly when writing commit messages. To fix, run:

$ git config --global core.editor /usr/bin/vim