My Dots ⚙️ for Productivity

my personal dotfiles, tested and used on Ubuntu 24 & 22 (Zorin OS)

Table Of Contents

• Components overview
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • What install.sh installs
  • Desktop configuration
• How Wallpapers work
• Font used
• Cursor
• Inspirations

Components overview

• GNU stow to create symlinks to actual user directories
• Terminal: kitty
• Shell: zsh
  • Oh My Zsh for theming and plugins
  • spaceship prompt
  • fzf (fuzzy file utility)
  • bat (better cat)
  • fastfetch on launch
  • eza for a better ls with icons & colors
  • zoxide for smarter cd
• Launcher: albert launcher with search engines like Duden, YouTube, Google Maps etc.
  • themed with a matugen-generated Material You palette (see below Wallpapers section)
• matugen
  • generates themes based on wallpaper (see below Wallpapers section)
• git config for local ignores and aliases
• pywalfox to use the material colors in Firefox
• fd for better find
• Material Bibata Cursor - See Cursors

Prerequisites

• git
• stow
• zsh
• kitty
• oh-my-zsh

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jgoedde/dotfiles ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./install.sh

What install.sh installs

install.sh is doing three things:

1. stowing the config dirs
2. installing the zsh plugins and spaceship prompt
3. setting up the wallpaper change timer

It does not download any other dependencies that are listed in Components section. Install them yourself.

Desktop configuration

After installing kitty, set it as default terminal.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec kitty

How Wallpapers work

Walls are expected to live in $HOME/Pictures/walls A systemd timer is set up every hour to change to a random wallpaper from the dir. Then, matugen is used to generate themes for following apps:

• kitty colors
• bat
• gtk (v3 and v4)
• obsidian
• pywalfox
• fzf
• alberts widgetsboxmodel theme (restarts albert to apply, via albert restart)

The generated kitty/bat/fzf color configs are committed to the repo (and marked skip-worktree locally) so a fresh clone has working colors before matugen ever runs.

Font used

~~Hack Nerd Font~ JetBrains Mono, used in kitty/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Cursor

Matugen is wired up with Material Bibata Cursor. That setup changes the cursor colors based on the wallpaper colors. It requires the cursor pack to live under ~/.icons. One directory in there for each cursor. Something like

.icons
├── Bibata-Material-Apricot
├── Bibata-Material-Beige
├── Bibata-Material-Blush
├── Bibata-Material-Brown
├── Bibata-Material-Charcoal
├── ...etc
└── default

When Matugen is run, it detects the according pre-existing Material Design themed cursor and applies that for either GNOME & GTK Applications, Hyprland compositor or XCursor fallback

Inspirations

• Stefan Raabe, https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles
• rockyzhang24, https://github.com/rockyzhang24/dotfiles