README.md

My dotfiles

This repository holds the dotfiles (configuration files) for most apps I used on Arch Linux, with a hyprland (wayland) tiling manager as GUI.

It's recommended to use stow to manage and install dotfiles.

To install a package,

stow --target=$HOME package

To install all configurations at once,

stow --target=$HOME */

This way is deprecated. The repository now contains systemd service units, which should be installed to either /etc/systemd/system/ or ~/.config/systemd/user/, for --system and --user processes respectively.

To unlink a package,

stow --target=$HOME --delete package

Note: instead of *, */ is used because the repo also contains a README.md file, and we only want to install directories that are packages (like tmux) in repo root.

Ignore Lists

Like git, Stow has its way to ignore files from installing. Stow looks for .stow-local-ignore and .stow-global-ignore files, for package-local and global settings. The ignore file's syntax is similar to .gitignore file. If neither of these files exist, it uses a built-in default list, which ignores \.git and \.gitignore, etc. You can safely place .gitignore inside a package, it won't pollute your home directory.