dotfiles

Personal dotfiles for Arch Linux managed with a bare git repository.

Contents

Config	Description
Fish	Priamry shell mirroring the Zsh setup
Zsh	Secondary shell with Zinit, vi mode, fzf, zoxide, Starship
Starship	Cross-shell prompt — Catppuccin Mocha palette, vim-mode aware
Neovim	NvChad v2.5 with LSP, DAP, Treesitter, Rust & Python support
Kitty	Terminal emulator — Rosé Pine theme, low-latency tuning
Zed	Editor — Vercel Carbon Dark theme, vim mode, Space leader keymaps
Lazygit	TUI git client — Vercel-inspired theme, vi navigation
Btop	System monitor — Adapta theme, vi keys, braille graphs
MPV	Media player — ModernZ OSC, thumbfast seek previews
lsfg-vk	Vulkan Lossless Scaling frame generation per-game config

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Installation

This repo uses the bare git repository pattern — files are tracked in-place inside $HOME with no symlinks or stow required.

Fresh install on a new machine

# Clone as a bare repo
git clone --bare https://github.com/SlamZDank/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

# Define the management alias (run once or add to your shell rc)
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

# Check out files into $HOME
dotfiles checkout

# Hide untracked files in status output
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

# Pull in the Neovim submodule
dotfiles submodule update --init --recursive

If checkout fails due to existing files, back them up and try again:

mkdir -p ~/.dotfiles-backup
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | grep '\s\+\.' | awk '{print $1}' | \
  xargs -I{} mv {} ~/.dotfiles-backup/{}
dotfiles checkout

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Configs

Zsh

Files: .zshrc, .zprofile

• Plugin manager: Zinit (auto-installs on first run)
• Plugins: fzf-tab, zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-history-substring-search, zsh-completions
• OMZ snippets: git, sudo, archlinux, aws, kubectl, kubectx, command-not-found
• Full vi mode with cursor shape changes (beam insert / block normal)
• p in normal mode pastes from Wayland clipboard (wl-paste)
• Shell integrations: fzf, zoxide (replaces cd), Starship prompt
• Pacman aliases: install, search, update, remove
• vim/nano → nvim
• .zprofile sets Wayland env vars and includes an NVIDIA workaround for DaVinci Resolve

Fish

Files: .config/fish/config.fish, .config/fish/functions/su.fish, .config/fish/fish_variables

Feature-for-feature mirror of the Zsh setup:

• Vi mode with [N]/[I]/[V] mode indicator in the prompt
• Same aliases, fzf, zoxide, Starship, and Wayland clipboard bindings
• dotfiles alias built in

Starship

File: .config/starship.toml

• Color palette: Catppuccin Mocha
• Segments: OS icon → directory → git branch/status → language versions (C, Rust, Go, Node, PHP, Java, Kotlin, Haskell, Python) → conda → clock
• Vim-mode aware prompt character: ❯ (insert) / ❮ (normal/visual/replace) with distinct colors per mode

Neovim

Path: .config/nvim/ — git submodule → SlamZDank/nvim-dots

See the nvim-dots readme for full details.

• Base: NvChad, Lazy.nvim plugin management
• LSP with inline diagnostics, Blink completion, Treesitter + context
• DAP debugging
• Rust: rustaceanvim + crates.nvim
• Python venv support
• Gitsigns + Lazygit integration
• Auto-save, autopairs, surround

# Install standalone (without the dotfiles repo)
git clone https://github.com/SlamZDank/nvim-dots.git ~/.config/nvim
nvim  # plugins install automatically via Lazy.nvim

Kitty

Files: .config/kitty/kitty.conf, .config/kitty/current-theme.conf

• Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, size 12
• Theme: Rosé Pine (dark, slightly modified background)
• 50% background opacity with blur
• Low-latency tuning: input_delay 0, repaint_delay 2, sync_to_monitor no
• Remote control via unix socket at /tmp/kitty-$USER
• Wayland IME disabled

Zed

Files: .config/zed/settings.json, .config/zed/keymap.json, .config/zed/tasks.json

• Theme: Vercel Carbon Dark; Icon theme: Catppuccin Latte
• Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, size 16
• Vim mode with Space leader keybindings
• Relative line numbers, always-on minimap, autosave after 1s
• LSP: rust-analyzer (clippy on save), clangd (12 threads), basedpyright
• Formatters: stylua (Lua), prettier (CSS/HTML)
• Key highlights:
  • Ctrl+H/J/K/L — pane navigation
  • Space+sv/so/sx/sm — splits
  • Space+ff/fw/fo — finders
  • Space+lg — git panel
  • Space+do/db/dx/dr — debugger
• Predefined tasks: Rust (build/run/test/clippy), C/C++ (clang/clang++), Python, npm

Lazygit

File: .config/lazygit/config.yml

• Theme: Vercel-inspired (pink active borders, purple search, dark backgrounds)
• Vi j/k navigation, hidden border style
• Topo-order git log with graph always visible
• Auto-fetch every 60s, auto-refresh every 10s
• Commit message auto-wrap at 72 chars

Btop

File: .config/btop/btop.conf

• Theme: Adapta
• Vi keys (h/j/k/l/g/G)
• Braille graph symbols

MPV

Files: .config/mpv/mpv.conf, .config/mpv/scripts/, .config/mpv/script-opts/

• Built-in OSC disabled; replaced with ModernZ
• Seekbar: orange progress, chapter nibbles, thumbfast thumbnail previews
• Jump buttons (±10s / ±60s), playlist controls, volume slider, yt-dlp download button
• Fluent + Material Design icon fonts

lsfg-vk

File: .config/lsfg-vk/conf.toml

Vulkan layer config for Lossless Scaling frame generation on Linux.

• Games configured: Hi-Fi RUSH, Elden Ring, Chiaki (PS Remote Play), and generic entries
• Multipliers: 3× (games), 4× (benchmarks), 2× (Chiaki)

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Prerequisites

Most configs assume the following are installed:

• Shell: zsh or fish, starship, fzf, zoxide, zinit
• Terminal: kitty
• Editor: neovim >= 0.9, zed
• Git TUI: lazygit
• Nerd Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font (or any Nerd Font)
• Wayland: wl-clipboard for clipboard integration
• Arch Linux: pacman (for the shell aliases)
• Optional: btop, mpv, yt-dlp, cargo, pnpm, nvidia-smi