tina-otoge / dotfiles

My Linux desktop environment

Hi there 👋

I am Damien, also known as Tina on the web. I'm an active open source contributor passionate about Linux, Python, and arcade rhythm games.

💻 Computers

Most of my recent experiences are with C, C++ and Python. I also have a long-running background of working with PHP.

• I like working with the Python web microframework Flask, I used it during an internship in 2021 and most of my recent personal projects use either that or FastAPI.
• I have worked with the PHP web framework Drupal during an internship in 2018-2019.
• For graphics, I like using SFML when working with C++ or C, and pyglet when working with Python. I worked with them both for school projects and personal projects.

I consider myself a Linux hobbyist, I'm using Linux fulltime since 2017 as my daily driver, and have been using it on servers since 2013 before that. I use it for programming, but also gaming, computer graphics, video editing, and any other daily tasks I do on my computer. I particularly love Vim, Fedora and tiling window managers. My Linux configuration is available on my dotfiles repository.

🕹️ Video games

I play various rhythm games, especially arcade ones. They are a niche genre of video games in the west but they are a lot of fun to play. I actually made a few rhythm games related project:

• osmosis is an alternative score server for the free PC rhythm game osu!: it focuses on accuracy instead of combo
• LucidSpace is a fork of a skin for USC, a PC clone of the arcade rhythm game SDVX: an attempt at making a feature-complete and beautiful skin that is not rip-off of SDVX
• KeysManiac is a simple keyboard based rhythm game developped with pyglet
• SAScrapper is a tool to fetch SDVX's Skill Analyzer courses from the website BEMANIWiki 2nd in a machine-readable format
• coffee break is a tool to generate good-looking scorecards for any rhythm games, inspired by arcade games

I recommend this video if you want to get into rhythm games.

💬 Socializing

You can reach me on

• Twitter @Tina_otoge
• Discord Tina#1998

dotfiles's Issues

Git branch in shell

The current shell should display the currently selected branch.

Targeted shells:

• zsh
• bash (optional)

Features wanted

• display branch
• display changes (optional)

Example

~/Repositories/skielred/Dotfiles (master) 
[user@domain] % ls

bash/     vim/      zsh/
3 directories

Special notes

Displaying the current branch should not affect the starting column for user input. Either use RPROMPT or display it on a new line.

~/not/in/a/repo
[user@domain] % cd ~/Repositories/skielred/Dotfiles

~/Repositories/skielred/Dotfiles
[user@domain] (master) % cd vim

This is not ok!! Avoid changing the starting column for user input as much as possible, as it decreases readability of commands history drastically!!

Home and End keys not working in zsh on Fedora in urxvt

Home and End keys (probably along other keys) does not work in zsh, tested on Fedora 28 in urxvt.

This is most likely due to the TERM environment variable not set properly.

The keys work in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on Windows (WSL) in urxvt. TERM is set to rxvt-unicode-256color.

Avoid hacking the zsh config to force it to manage the Home and End keys properly, and find what causes it not interpreting the keys correctly on Fedora.

See:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Home_and_End_keys_not_working
  For reference.

Vim sidebar

How do I get this awesome file management side bar in your Vim?

Add script to install the files

Add a script in the repository to interactively install the configuration files per group.

This should significantly improves deployment time.

(optional) Include a short documentation of what each group affects when asking to install them, so the user does not have to read the configuration files to know what they do.

Languages to use

• Bash or POSIX shell

Features wanted

• Possibility to either use cp or ln:
  • symlinks make it possible to easily update files using source control. However they are harder to maintain when moving repositories and harder to understand for UNIX beginners. Usually requires making a fork to properly modify files while still being able to merge upstream changes efficiently.
  • copying doesn't allow updating files with newer versions, however not depending on a repository makes it trivial to make changes to the files. Better if the user want to use this repository as a starting point but does not care about eventual updates.

X resources preprocessor directives only work with GCC

On some distributions if Matsui CPP is installed alongside GCC, the default behaviour for xrdb will be to prefer mcpp over GNU's cpp. However, GCC supports more preprocessor directives than Matsui CPP, for example:

#if __has_include("path/to/file")

There are also differences in the implementation of some of the preprocessor directives, in GCC, #include does not follow symlinks, while in Matsui CPP it does.

Example

This X resources file:

#include "path/relative/to/symlink.Xresources"

#if __has_include("some_file")
    #include "some_file"
#endif

works fine with GCC but not with Matsui CPP.

Solution

Force xrdb to use GCC and makes GCC a dependency for the X resources configuration files.