bookercodes / dotfiles

🎚 Configuration files for macOS and Linux

Hi there 👋

• My name's Alex and I work at @Scrimba where I host The Scrimba Podcast, make YouTube videos, and support writers on the company blog
• Before all that, I was a (mostly JavaScript) Full-Stack Web Developer and Developer Advocate
• You can still find some of my projects and contributions here on GitHub but I don't code as much as I would like 👾!

Projects

• [Scrimba Discord Onboarding Bot] (private repo 🔑)
• Base16 Builder
• Password Generator A humble password generator that later became part of Privacy Tools
• Memento Generate and verify ephemeral tokens (like password reset tokens)
• Mongoose Extract Duplicate Field Extract the name of a duplicate field
• EggHead.io Downloader
• compareTo
• lunar-api
• Community Casts
• Community Casts rewrite
• Cognito User Pool Demo
• Realtime chat with Pusher
• Genius API client
• Apollo
• GitHub Unfollow Everyone
• Tiny Care Bot
• Parallel Parking Simulator
• Tool to pick random Tweet with hashtag
• GitHub Unstar All

dotfiles's Issues

Having issues getting rofi theming to work

I'm following your 2015 guide to rice i3 on youtube, and I've gotten to the part where you rice Rofi. I've copy-pasted the same bit of config from your .i3/config, and the only change I've made is changing the font to Hack 9. No matter that when I launch rofi after reloading, I get a pale beige mess that covers my whole screen and looks disgusting. I can't seem to get a screenshot of it with maim, but just trust me it looks nothing like what is demonstrated in the video. Are there any changes that have been made since 2015 that would break your configuration options?

I'm using Manjaro 17.0.5 running Linux 4.12

i3blocks.conf - volume command script

Hello,

My ubuntu 15.10, upgraded to 16.04 machine does not have pulseaudio-ctl available in the repos.

What happened to the volume Perl script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKIwOlazKI?
I had an issue with it - my audio sink passed as the first argument is actually 0, which makes the script exit early. I solved it by:

my $sink=$ARGV[0] || die("Need a sink number as the first argument\n");

if (!defined $ARGV[0]) {die("Need a sink number as the first argument\n");}
my $sink=$ARGV[0];

continue code

Regards.

Compton

I want to enable Compton to enable Rofi to have a transparent background.

what is the `jump` command

Hi,

I saw the jump alias in your configuration, but could not find this anywhere on the net. Could you point me to homepage or manpage please.

Rofi

My old Rofi configuration doesn't work so well on Arch. I dunno why. I'll need to look into this. I'll also want to extract the Rofi arguments into .Xresources.

Rxvt Has the Most Hideous Border

For some reason, rxvt has the most hideous border:

I made the border green to highlight the problem:

Urxvt.bordercolor: #00ff00

I have already tried the following settings:

URxvt.internalBorder: 0
URxvt.externalBorder: 0
URxvt.borderless: true

I also tried running urxvt -bl to make sure it wasn't an erorr in my configuration.

Confugre Custom DNS

What it says on the tin.

Need a Better Screenshot Tool

At the moment I am using a combination of scrot and imgur-screenshot.

imgur-screenshot is fine but scrot:

• looks horrible;
• doesn't show the cross cursor;
• doesn't freeze the screen; and,
• sometimes results in jagged edges.

It has to go!

GNOME Keyring Shouldn't Need Me to Enter My Password Every Time I Login

I am sure there is an easy solution to this.

I want it so that when I login (which already requires a password), I don't have to enter my GNOME Keyring password.

How can I install your .dotfiles?

Hey, Alex! How can I install your .dotfiles in my terminal? (.vimrc, .zshrc, etc).

I want to start learning Vim.

I'm beginner, sorry bro. 😑

Problem with volume script

The index for my default sink is 0. When passing 0 as an argument to your volume script I get an error message returned, and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it.

Rofi customization is not working now

Hello! Thank you so much for your video

I've checked and now rofi themes are created in a .rasi file instead of put colors, backgrounds, etc in command line. Then you can select the theme that you want using rofi-theme-selector.

You can check

man rofi-theme

to get more information about

Put VPN Status in the Bar

I could never get this to work on Ubuntu because *openssh wouldn't emit a pid file through system.d. I have high hopes for Arch.

Dunst

The notify-send command results in some obstructive and ugly notifications. I want to customize Dunst instead.

Enable Media Keys via Playerctl

I need to install playerctl and hook up the media keys.

Todo

• Fix Nvm Zsh bug
• Vpn does not auto-connect until I run sudo ./etc/init.d/openvpn restart which is dumb
• Make LastPass auto-complete
• Add Vpn to i3blocks
• Fix i3 block volume bug
• Float Spotify and Skype
• Open Windows on login
• Force Windows to open on certain workspace?
• Vim syntax highlighting lol

Fix Tty Resoloution and Font

At the moment I do not have a DM so I login via tty and write startx. I am fine with this but the tty virtual console looks awful, especially because it loads the Zsh theme which requires a powerline patched font.

Change Default Output Device

For some reason I need to change the output device for each application via pulse audio. This is a pain in the ass.

Certain Font Awesome Characters Do Not Render at All on Arch.

Certain Font Awesome characters do not render at all on Arch.

In particular, fa-clock and fa-volume-* do not render. When I copy one from the cheat sheet and then paste it in .i3blocks.conf, the character is all messed up.

What colorscheme for editor

What was the color scheme you used for the editor in this video if you're aware of it still

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vcIW0CO07k